Blackwater Draw
Blackwater Draw is an intermittent stream channel about 140 km long, with headwaters in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, about 18 km southwest of Clovis, New Mexico, and flows southeastward across the Llano Estacado toward the city of Lubbock, Texas, where it joins Yellow House Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River.Places of Interest
Highlights include Joyland Amusement Park and American Wind Power Center.
Joyland Amusement Park
Theme park
Joyland Amusement Park was a small family-owned traditional amusement park, located in Lubbock, Texas, United States within Lubbock's Mackenzie Park. It typically operated from March to September of each year, opening six days a week but only during the evening on weeknights.
American Wind Power Center
Theme park
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The American Wind Power Center is a museum of wind power in Lubbock, Texas. Located on 28 acres of city park land east of downtown Lubbock, the museum has more than 160 American style windmills on exhibition.
S. H. Kress and Co. Building
Building
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The Kress Building at 1109 Broadway in Lubbock, Texas was built in 1932 as a S. H. Kress & Co. store building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lubbock.
Lubbock
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Lubbock is the largest city in the Panhandle of Texas and serves as the area's agricultural and economic hub. Lubbock, commonly known as the Hub City, is in the center of the South Plains, an expansive cotton-growing region.
Blackwater Draw
- Type: Valley with an elevation of 3,150 feet
- Description: dry stream channel in New Mexico, USA
- Categories: stream and landform
- Location: Lubbock, Texas, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Polish—“Blackwater Draw” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلاك ووتر دراو”
- Cebuano: “Blackwater Draw”
- Chinese: “黑水源”
- Japanese: “ブラックウォーター・ドロウ”
- Polish: “Blackwater Draw”
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