Crow Springs

(15 miles north) 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. (1974)

Crow Springs is a historical marker in Salt Flat, Hudspeth County, dedicated in 1974. It is one of 14 historical markers documented in Hudspeth County in the Texas Historical Commission Atlas, among 27 historic sites cataloged across the county.

The site sits at 31.7549, -105.1233 near Salt Flat. The nearest cataloged historic site is Resentment over_El Paso Salt War (historical marker), about 6.2 miles away. Others within a short drive include Valley Memorial Acres, Hammack, and LeLois McAdoo Ranch.

This record corresponds to Texas Historical Commission Atlas #5229001123. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.