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Table of Contents for this page:
Overview of the Area
Cemeteries
Counties
Maps
Mountains
Residential Places Towns and Settlements
Travel Routes

Overview of the Area
Get a rare ticket to travel back to 1939 to see Terlingua, Big Bend area, Presidio, Alpine, and San Carlos as they were then. Click the image below to see a 1939 movie of the area.
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Cemeteries
Alpine Holy Angels Cemetery
Barstow Cemetery
Buena Vista Cemetery
Calsbad Cemetery
La Coyota Cemetery
Ft. Davis Cemetery
Ft. Stockton St. Joseph's Cemetery
García Family Cemetery
Study Butte Cemetery
Imperial Cemetery
Lajitas Cemetery
Marathon Cemetery
Marfa Cemetery
Molinar Family Cemetery
Ojinaga Cemetery
Pecos Cemetery
El Polvo Cemetery
Shafter Cemetery
Terlingua Cemetery

Counties
Texas County Boundaries
Click here to see the historical County Boundaries by any date after 6/1/1819

Places in Brewster County
 City:
  • Alpine
Census Designated Places:
  • Marathon
  • Study Butte
  • Terlingua
Ghost towns:
  • Castolon
  • Glenn Springs
Other unincorporated communities:
  • Altuda
  • Boquillas
  • Haymond
  • Hovey
  • Lajitas
  • Lenox
  • Rooneys Place
  • Rosenfeld
  • Tesnus
  • Titley
  • Toronto
  • Warwick

Places in Presidio County 
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Maps
Texas General Land Office Land/Lease Map Viewer https://gisweb.glo.texas.gov/glomapjs/index.html
Texas Railroad Commission GIS maps https://gis.rrc.texas.gov/GISViewer/

Mountains
and other Geological Places of Interest such as peaks, springs, et cetera.

Casa Grande

Christmas Mountain

Domíguez Mounatian (Domínguez Creek; Domínguez Mountain Trail)

Nine Points

Mule Ears

Santiago Peak

Santa Elena Canyon

La Cuesta

Post Offices
The US Archives for Post Offices can be found at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68741390

Residential Places
includes farms, ranches, haciendas, ejidos, settlements, towns, municipalities, and counties
Alpine

Boquillas (aka Rio Grande Village)

Campo Nuevo (aka Study Butte)

Candelaria (30.16086 -104.683289)

Castolón (first known as Santa Elena)

La Coyota (29.153810,-103.549300)
La Coyota 1930 Census

La Coyota Cemetery
(Lat/Lng: 29.150500,-103.544444)

Chisos (aka Terlingua)

Dysart Ranch (in Presidio?)

Fort Leaton

Fort Stockton Barney Riggs

Glen Springs

Gordexola, Vizcaya, España (Molinar origins)


Hot Springs

El Indio (29.720869, -104.531502)


Julimes, Chihuahua , MX
(28.426201 -105.431084)

La Junta de los Rios

Kokernot Ranch

Lajitas

Marathon

Molinar School

El Mulato

El Ojito

Ojinaga

La Plazuela
Meoqui  [news of Meoqui]
(aka Pedro Meoqui, San Pablo Meoqui and Meoquis)
 Civil Records for Meoqui 1861 - 1992

Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico

Presidio County

Presidio, Texas

El Pueblito
Rooney's Place

Pueblo Nuevo

Pueblo Viejo

Rancho del Alamo

Redford

Rooney's Place

San Pablo Meoqui (see Meoqui)

Shafter -- Link to Map
Shafter - link to Birds Eye View

Study Butte (aka Campo Nuevo)

San Antonio, Chihuahua, MX
(28.84611, -103.85548)

Santa Elena, TX
(Santa Elena's name later changed to Castolón
)

 Ejido Santa Elena, MX

Santa Elena Canyon

Las Tapias

Terlingua

Terlingua map - read "Where is Terlingua?"

(Lat/Lng: 29.32090609898411, -103.61694757388108)

Terlingua Cemetary

Terlingua Abajo
(Lat/Lng: 29.1987735094371, -103.60425563655289)

Terlingua-Study Butte


Travel Routes
Indian Trails
Comanche Trail aka Comanche Trace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche_Trail
Note: You may notice the word "Ejido" on Mexican locations. Curious? Click here to check it out; learn what about ejidos in Mexican history.

Drives - take a video drive

Texas FM 179 Presidio to Terlingua - YouTube video 12 mins 26 seconds:
Drive The River Road: Texas FM 179 - Presidio to Terlingua


Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive Terlingua to Santa Elena Canyon - YouTube video
Drive Terlingua to Santa Elena Canyon on Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive through BBNP.


Other drives you may enjoy 
other trips at http://takemytrip.com/statemap_tx.htm


Railways
The Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad
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In 1868, it changed owners and became the Galveston, Harrisburg, & San Antonio Railroad. More tracks were then laid towards San Antonio and the new owners also constructed the first telegraphs along the route. After reaching San Antonio, the road was continued to El Paso, where it met the Southern Pacific Railroad and insured that the line’s transcontinental route would use the southern portion of Texas rather than the north. The railroad itself used the nickname Sunset Route, a name that was in general use by 1874 and was later adopted by the Southern Pacific Railroad for the entire line between New Orleans and Los Angeles, California. As early as 1878 the railroad reached an agreement with the Southern Pacific Railroad, regarding the expansion of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio west of San Antonio. The two companies met up in January 1883 with a silver spike driven just west of the Pecos River to mark the completion of a new transcontinental route across Texas." read more
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf,_Colorado_and_Santa_Fe_Railway

This page was created on November 20, 2013.  Revamping of this page was started on November 18 2020.
Revamping on this page continued on March 14, 2021. Additional revamping on August 10, 2021.


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