Wallace Creek

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Wallace Creek is a stream in Bandera County, Texas and Kerr County, Texas, in the United States. [1]

Wallace Creek was named in the 1850s for Bigfoot Wallace, who owned land near there. [2]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wallace Creek
  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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