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Limpia Creek

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Limpia Creek, originally known as the Rio Limpia, is a stream that heads in Jeff Davis County, Texas and its mouth is in Pecos County, Texas. Limpa is the Spanish word for "clear or clean water". The creek has its head in the Davis Mountains at an elevation of 7,160 feet, at location {{coord|30|38|27|N|104|09|42|W|display=inline}} on the northeast slope of Mount Livermore. The creek flows 42 miles down Limpia Canyon past Fort Davis and Wild Rose Pass to the canyon mouth, where it turns eastward to its mouth at its confluence with Barrilla Draw, where it disappears into the ground at an elevation of 3,533 feet / 1,077 meters.^[1]^[2]

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Limpia Creek was a water and forage stop on the San Antonio-El Paso Road for freighters, and stage companies like the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line that had a stop at a camp 32 miles west of Hackberry Pond and 18.86 miles from Fort Davis.^[3] The Butterfield Overland Mail located their Limpia Station near the mouth Limpia Canyon 18 miles from Fort Davis, 10 miles west of Barela Springs Station farther down Limpia Creek.^[4]

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1. ^{{GNIS|1350804|Limpia Creek}}
2. ^[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rbl50 LIMPIA CREEK] from Handbook of Texas Online, "Limpia Creek," accessed July 11, 2016
3. ^Table of distances from Texas Almanac, 1859, Book, ca. 1859; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth123765/ accessed July 11, 2016), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas
4. ^[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1858/10/14/78877651.pdf List of Stations from New York Times, October 14 1858, Itinerary of the Route]

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