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WALKER CREEK (Presidio County). Walker Creek rises in the Sierra Vieja Mountains in western Presidio County (at 30°27' N, 104°39' W) and flows in a southerly direction for twelve miles to its mouth on Capote Creek, four miles southwest of the southern edge of the Sierra Vieja Mountains (at 30°13' N, 104°38' W). Its course crosses Tertiary deposits of rhyolites and tuffs. The soils of the area are generally light reddish-brown to brown sands and clay loams, often rough and stony. The vegetation consists primarily of sparse desert shrubs. In August 1583 the entrada of Antonio de Espejo^qv traveled down Walker Creek to the Rio Grande near Candelaria.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cecilia Thompson, History of Marfa and Presidio County, 1535-1946 (2 vols., Austin: Nortex, 1985).

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