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The Peloncillo Mountains of Hidalgo County,, is a major 35-mile (56 km) long mountain range southwest of New Mexico's Hidalgo County, and also part of the New Mexico Bootheel region. The range continues to the northwest into Arizona as the Peloncillo Mountains of Cochise County, Arizona. The extreme southwest corner of the range also lies in Arizona. It is a linear range bordering the linear San Bernardino Valley of southeast Cochise County, Arizona.
The Temescal Mountains, also known as the Sierra Temescal, are one of the northernmost mountain ranges of the Peninsular Ranges in western Riverside County, in Southern California in the United States. They extend for approximately 25 mi (40 km) southeast of the Santa Ana River east of the Elsinore Fault Zone to the Temecula Basin and form the western edge of the Perris Block.
Stein's Pass, is a gap or mountain pass through the Peloncillo Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. The pass was named after United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who camped nearby in 1856, as he explored the recently acquired Gadsden Purchase. The pass is in the form of a canyon cut through the mountains through which Steins Creek flows to the west just west of the apex of the pass to the canyon mouth at 32°13′19″N109°01′48″W.
Steins Creek, a stream or arroyo tributary to the San Simon River, that arises within an east–west running canyon, in Hidalgo County, New Mexico with its mouth in Cochise County, Arizona. This canyon provides the gap, called Stein's Pass, through which the railroad and Interstate 10 pass through the Peloncillo Mountains. Steins Creek has its source at 32°14′10″N108°59′43″W, and its mouth in the San Simon Valley, where its waters usually sink into the soil, short of any confluence with the San Simon River.
Whitmire Spring is a spring in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Correctly named on the Playas Lake South U. S. topographic map, it is mistakenly called Whitmore Spring on the U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System. The spring was named after J. B. Whitmire, a rancher in the 1880s, owner of the Whitmire Ranch. Whitmire Spring lies at an elevation of 4,291 feet / 1,308 meters, on the west shore of Playas Lake, near the site of the Whitmire Ranch. Whitmire Spring is one of a number of springs and seeps bordering the western edge of Playas Lake. Its water has its source in the Animas Mountains nearby to the west.
Cowboy Rim is a cliff that runs along the Continental Divide in the Animas Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It runs west from a point at 31°36′34″N108°41′37″W to its highpoint is at an elevation of 6,591 feet at 31°36′36″N108°39′31″W just east of Elephant Butte. Here Cowboy Rim overlooks the Gillespie Creek valley below it to the north, and the Continental Divide runs along this section of the rim, then turns of to the south-southwest from the highpoint, along a ridge west of Elephant Butte Canyon. Cowboy Rim continues eastward to Elephant Butte then turns south-southeastward to 31°32′52″N108°37′22″W. This section of the Rim overlooks the Playas Valley below it to the east.
Chaco River is a river tributary to the San Juan River in San Juan County, New Mexico. Its mouth lies at an elevation of 4,918 feet. Its source is located at an elevation of 6,050 feet at 36°05′10″N108°00′30″W, its confluence with Chaco Wash and Escavado Wash just northwest of the mouth of Chaco Canyon.
Bennett Creek is a tributary stream in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
Gillespie Creek is an intermittent stream or arroyo in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Gillespie Creek is 11 miles (18 km) long, heading in the Animas Mountains at 31°37′10″N108°42′40″W and flowing northeasterly until it ends in the Playas Valley, at an elevation of 4,587 feet. Its waters in flood would reach Playas Lake. Its mouth is located 24 miles south southeast of Animas. Bennett Creek is a tributary that has its confluence with Gillespie Creek at 31°38′56″N108°37′23″W an elevation of 4,902 feet.
Elephant Butte Canyon or Lawhorn Canyon is a canyon in the Animas Mountains of Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its stream is a tributary of Walnut Creek. Its mouth is located at elevation 5,535 feet / 1,687 feet at its confluence with Walnut Creek, just below Lawhorn Tank. Its source is located at 3.5 miles north northeast of its mouth 31°36′25″N108°39′20″W at an elevation of 6,050 feet on the southwest slope of Elephant Butte.
Walnut Creek is an intermittent stream in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It has its source in the Animas Mountains on the east slope of the Continental Divide at an elevation of 6,720 feet at 31°33′15″N108°41′37″W. Its mouth is located at an elevation of 4,524 feet where it subsides into the Playas Valley.
Foster Draw is a valley and stream tributary to Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its mouth, located at its confluence with Taylor Draw, is the source of Animas Creek, at an elevation of 5,151 feet in the Animas Valley. Its source is at 31°28′57″N108°59′47″W in the Peloncillo Mountains.
Taylor Draw is a valley and stream tributary to Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its mouth, located at its confluence with Foster Draw, is the source of Animas Creek, at an elevation of 5,151 feet in the Animas Valley. Its source is at 31°31′15″N108°48′40″W in the Animas Mountains.
Walnut Creek is a tributary stream of Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
Whitmire Pass is a gap in the Animas Mountains in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It lies at an elevation of 4,977 feet . The pass was named after J. B. Whitmire, a rancher in the 1880s, owner of the Whitmire Ranch that lies to the east of the pass, on the west shore of Playas Lake, nearby Whitmire Spring. Whitmire Creek flows from the west slope of the pass, into Animas Creek in the Animas Valley. Another, unnamed arroyo runs eastward down into the Playas Valley, toward Playas Lake at Whitmire Spring.
Whitmire Creek is a stream tributary to Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico. It is one of two creeks of that name that are tributary to Animas Creek in the Animas Valley. They both were named for J. B. Whitmire one of the first settlers that established the Whitmire Ranch in the area during the 1880s.
Whitmire Creek is a stream tributary to Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Its source is in Whitmire Canyon in the Peloncillo Mountains in Cochise County, Arizona. It is one of two creeks of that name that are tributary to Animas Creek in the Animas Valley. They both were named for J. B. Whitmire one of the first settlers that established the Whitmire Ranch in the area during the 1880s.
Bull Creek is a stream tributary to Animas Creek within Hidalgo County, New Mexico. Bull Creek is located east of Animas Creek, flows westward down from its source at 31°39′54″N108°41′28″W, at an elevation of approximately 5,720 feet / 1,740 meters in the Animas Mountains to the east of the valley. It flows northwest from the west slope of Gillespie Mountain, to its confluence with Animas Creek in the Animas Valley at an elevation of 4,869 feet / 1,484 meters.
Bercham Draw is a tributary stream of Animas Creek in Hidalgo County, New Mexico.
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