Live Oak Creek, a stream with its source in Reagan County, Texas at 31°10′45″N 101°42′01″W / 31.17917°N 101.70028°W / 31.17917; -101.70028 at an elevation of 2938 feet, that runs southward to its mouth at an elevation of 2001 feet on the Pecos River in Crockett County, Texas.^[1]

Live Oak Creek was a water source on the San Antonio-El Paso Road, 30.44 miles from Howard Springs and 3 miles from Fort Lancaster and 7.29 miles from Pecos Crossing.^[2] Fort Lancaster was located to the east of this creek near its mouth.

On July 9, 1857, Edward Fitzgerald Beale described it:

Live Oak creek is a clear and beautiful stream of sweet and cool water; the grass very fine, and wood, (oak, mesquite, and willow,) abundant. Just before descending into the valley of the stream we came to a very steep, rocky hill, overlooking a valley of great beauty and graceful shape. The sides of the hills were covered with the most brilliant verdure and flowers,...^[3]: 22

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30°39′08″N 101°42′31″W / 30.65222°N 101.70861°W / 30.65222; -101.70861

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