Pease River
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The Pease River is a river in Texas, United States. It is a tributary of the Red River that runs in an easterly direction through West Texas . It was discovered and mapped for the first time in 1856 by Jacob de Córdova, who found the river while surveying for the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad Company; it was named after Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease.[2] In December 1860, the Texas Rangers recaptured Cynthia Ann Parker and her daughter from the Comanche Indians at an engagement along the river.[2]
Pease River | |
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Location | |
Country | United States |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Confluence of North and Middle Pease, Cottle County, Texas |
• coordinates | 34.2389597°N 100.1242754°W / 34.2389597; -100.1242754[1] |
• elevation | 1,538 ft (469 m) |
Mouth | |
• location | Red River, Tillman County, Oklahoma |
• coordinates | 34.2006436°N 99.0297969°W / 34.2006436; -99.0297969[1] |
• elevation | 1,102 ft (336 m) |
Length | 100 mi (160 km) |
Basin size | 760 sq mi (2,000 km2) |
Basin features | |
River system | Red River |
The river begins 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Paducah in northern Cottle County and runs eastward for 100 miles (160 km) to its mouth on the Red River 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Vernon. Its course flows through "flood-prone flat terrain with local shallow depressions, surfaced by sandy and clay loams";[2] part of it forms the county line between Hardeman and Foard Counties.
The river has three main branches, the North Pease, Middle Pease, and Tongue (or South Pease) Rivers;[2] the beginning of the main river is variously given as where all three branches come together,[2] or where only the North and Middle Pease Rivers intersect.[3][4] Satellite and topographical imagery, however, clearly shows that the Tongue River empties into the Middle Pease before the latter's meeting with the North Pease.[5]