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EAST ELM CREEK.
East Elm Creek rises five miles northwest of D'Hanis in west central
Medina County (at 29°23' N, 99°21' W) and
runs southwest for twenty-two miles to its mouth on the Sabinal
River, at a point where Farm Road 187 crosses the river 3½
miles west of Irishman Hill (at 29°10' N, 99°28' W).
In its upper and middle reaches, the creek passes through an area
of steep to gently sloping terrain surfaced by very shallow to
shallow, gravelly loams that support scrub brush and grasses.
In the creek's lower reaches the terrain changes to flat with
local shallow depressions, surfaced by deep loamy and clayey soils
that support water-tolerant hardwoods, conifers, and grasses.
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