Blackwater Draw
Dry stream channel in New Mexico, US / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blackwater Draw is an intermittent stream channel about 140 km (87 mi) long, with headwaters in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, about 18 km (11 mi) southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, and flows southeastward across the Llano Estacado toward the city of Lubbock, Texas, where it joins Yellow House Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River.[2][3] It stretches across eastern Roosevelt County, New Mexico, and Bailey, Lamb, Hale, and Lubbock Counties of West Texas and drains an area of 1,560 sq mi (4,040 km2).[4]
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Blackwater Draw (Anderson Basin) | |
Nearest city | Clovis and Portales New Mexico |
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Coordinates | 34°16′40″N 103°19′28″W |
Area | 3,200 acres (1,300 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 66000483[1] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
Designated NHLD | January 20, 1961 |
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