Station Creek Keeps an Older Fort Name on the Map

Station Creek begins twelve miles east of Gatesville and runs ten miles south to the Leon River, just west of Mother Neff State Park. It is not one of the county's headline waterways, and that is what makes it useful. The creek adds a quieter piece to the Leon River map, crossing flat-to-rolling prairie with stony clay loam, oak, juniper, cactus, and grasses around it.

The name comes from Fort Station, kept by Texas soldiers under George B. Erath in 1839. Since Belton Lake was completed in 1954, the lower creek has also been subject to flooding.

Station Creek runs ten miles through Coryell prairie to the Leon River, carrying the 1839 Fort Station name with it.