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Crow Springs

Crow Springs	 	Texas Historical Marker Salt Flats, TX, USA Latitude & Longitude: 31° 45' 11.68502000004", -105° 7' 23.8636499988" Texas State, Historical Marker Named for birds habitually there in abundance, Crow Springs was an oasis for Indians for centuries. The Butterfield Overland Mail in 1858 built a stage relay station at the Springs, but used it less than a year before shifting the route south, to go by Fort Davis. During the Apache wars of the early 1880s, Texas rangers and the U. S. 10th Cavalry camped at Crow Springs occasionally, to prevent Indians in New Mexico from joining the war leaders, Victorio and Nana, in Mexico. Today the Springs are dry, the station has fallen to dust, and the Crows have disappeared.

31.75324°N, -105.12329°W

Gunnar Brune, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD REPORT 189, MAJOR AND HISTORICAL SPRINGS OF TEXAS, March, 1975

Gunnar M. Brune, Springs of Texas, Volume 1, Texas A&M University Press, 2002.