Holliday Creek is a
stream
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located in
Archer
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and
Wichita counties,
Texas
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. Its headwaters are in western Archer County, Texas. It crosses Archer County and then enters Wichita County and
Lake Wichita. From the spillway of Lake Wichita dam, it passes through the city of
Wichita Falls, Texas
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, and empties into the
Wichita River
The Wichita River ( ) is a river of Northwest Texas that is part of the Red River of the South, Red River drainage basin, watershed. Rising in northeastern Knox County, Texas, Knox County at the confluence of its North and South Forks, the river ...
, a tributary of the
Red River.
A federally funded flood control project was completed about 1998 where the creek passes through Wichita Falls.
History
The creek was named after early explorer, Captain John Holliday, who carved his name on a tree by the creek. The town of
Holliday, Texas, was named after the creek, as was Holliday Street, a major street in Wichita Falls.
A flood on Holliday Creek in the 1890s prompted Wichita Falls entrepreneur
Joseph A. Kemp to dredge Lake Wichita in 1901 as a reservoir for irrigation and recreation.
See also
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Geology of Wichita Falls, Texas
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List of rivers of Texas
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External links
Holliday Creekfrom the
Handbook of Texas
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Online
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Rivers of Texas
Rivers of Wichita County, Texas
Rivers of Archer County, Texas
Tributaries of the Red River of the South