Ward Mountain (Texas)

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Ward Mountain
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West aspect
Highest point
Elevation 6,926 ft (2,111 m) [1]
Prominence 258 ft (79 m) [1]
Isolation 0.43 mi (0.69 km) [2]
Coordinates 29°15′25″N103°20′07″W / 29.2568592°N 103.3354042°W / 29.2568592; -103.3354042 [3]
Geography
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Ward Mountain
Location of Ward Mountain in Texas
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Ward Mountain
Ward Mountain (the United States)
CountryUnited States
State Texas
County Brewster
Protected area Big Bend National Park [1]
Parent range Chisos Mountains [1]
Topo map USGS The Basin
Geology
Rock age Oligocene
Rock type Igneous rock

Ward Mountain is a 6,926-foot-elevation (2,111-meter) summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States.

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Description

Ward Mountain is located on the west side of the Chisos Mountains in Big Bend National Park. The mountain is composed of rhyolite (volcanic rock) and Chisos Formation which formed during the Oligocene period. [4] [5] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,500 feet (762 m) above Cottonwood Creek near Ward Spring in 1.25 miles (2.01 km). Based on the Köppen climate classification, Ward Mountain is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. [6] Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into Cottonwood Creek which is part of the Rio Grande watershed. The lower slopes of the mountain are covered by juniper, oak, and piñon. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted on March 9, 1939, by the United States Board on Geographic Names. [3] The namesake was Johnny Ward, a cowboy from the nearby G4 ranch. [7] The G4 ranch manager Captain Jim Gillette trusted nineteen-year-old Johnny Ward who was sent by rail to Chicago in the late 1880s to buy cattle for the G4 Cattle Company. The G4 was one of the first large ranches of Big Bend, stretching from Oak Spring and The Window to Terlingua Creek and Aguja Fria to the west. [8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Ward Mountain, Texas". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Ward Mountain - 6,925' TX". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Ward Mountain". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved November 5, 2024.
  4. ↑ Geologic Map of the Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Texas, Robert G. Bohannon, 2011, U.S. Geological Survey.
  5. ↑ Laurence Parent, Hiking Big Bend National Park, 2nd Edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, ISBN   9780762753772, p. 42.
  6. ↑ Peel, M.C.; Finlayson, B.L. & McMahon, T.A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences . 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . Archived (PDF) from the original on December 2, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2025.
  7. ↑ Ronnie C. Tyler, The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975, p. 18.
  8. ↑ The Big Bend Paisano, Rob Dean, National Park Service, p. 4.
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