West Carrizo Creek forms in
Las Animas County, Colorado
Las Animas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,555. The county seat is Trinidad. The county takes its name from the Mexican Spanish name of the Purgatoire River, originally ...
west-southwest of
Kim, Colorado
Kim is a List of cities and towns in Colorado#Statutory town, Statutory Town in Las Animas County, Colorado, Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. The population was 63 at the time of the 2020 United States census.
The town was named afte ...
and flows generally east.
It connects with
East Carrizo Creek, which forms in Colorado north of Mt. Carrizo and east of Kim, and which flows generally southeast before turning south, to form
North Carrizo Creek
North Carrizo Creek forms in Baca County, Colorado at the confluence of East Carrizo Creek and West Carrizo Creek, at a point about 6 miles north of the Preston Monument, the tripoint of Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico. North Carrizo Creek th ...
at a point about six miles north of the
Preston Monument
The Preston Monument is the common name for a stone marker at the tri-point (the place where three states meet) of Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. It is named after Levi S. Preston who surveyed a portion of the New Mexico–Colorado border in ...
, the tripoint of Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
See also
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East Carrizo Creek
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South Carrizo Creek
South Carrizo Creek forms either just west of the Oklahoma line in New Mexico, or east inside Oklahoma to the northwest of Wheeless, Oklahoma. It is intermittent. It travels generally northeast through Black Mesa State Park where it is impounde ...
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Carrizo Creek (New Mexico/Texas)
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Carrizo Creek (Arizona)
Carrizo Creek forms in Arizona north of Cibecue, before flowing generally southeast, being joined by Corduroy Creek around the town of Carrizo, and continuing generally south to join the Salt River.
It is not to be confused with the Carrizo ...
References
Rivers of Colorado
Rivers of Las Animas County, Colorado
Rivers of Baca County, Colorado
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