Red Bluff Creek (Medina River tributary)

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Red Bluff Creek is a stream in Bandera and Kendall counties, Texas, in the United States. [1]

Red Bluff Creek was so named from the reddish steep banks along the creek. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Red Bluff Creek (Medina River tributary)
  2. Hunter, John Marvin (1922). Pioneer History of Bandera County: Seventy-five Years of Intrepid History. Hunter's printing house. p.  228.

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