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Geographical Features

Collin County is located between Grayson, Hunt, Fannin, Dallas, and Denton counties in north Texas. It is in the physical region of Texas known as Blackland Prairie. It contains heavy black clay soil and is mostly made up of level to gently rolling hills. It was said of the soil that if you stuck to it during the dry weather, it would stick to you in the wet. It is approximately 30 miles square, with the county seat, McKinney, at its geographic center.

The county has numerous springs and white-rock creeks. Originally the eastern part of the county was wooded and the western part was open prairie. A white rock escarpment known as Preston Ridge runs the length of the county near its western edge. It divides the water sheds of the East Fork and the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. West of the escarpment is an area of rich farmland known as "the flats."

Most of the creeks in the county are in the water shed of the East Fork of the Trinity River. The creeks on the west side of the county, except for White Rock and Gentle, are in the water shed of the Elm Fork of the Trinity. Sabine Creek, south of Josephine, and Cowskin Creek are said to be in the water shed of the Sabine River.

The creeks flow predominately north to south. Sister Grove, Pilot Grove, and the portion of the East Fork east of McKinney, in effect, divided the county in half. Today these three creeks and Rowlette Creek form Lake Lavon.

 

East Side	Central	West Side
Bear (2)	Clemmons	Gentle
Bluff	Comegy	Little Elm
Bois d'Arc	East Fork	Panther
Camp	Honey	Stewart
Cottonwood	Hurricane	White Rock
Cowskin	Maxwell
Desert	Muddy
Elm	Pitman
Elm Grove	Rowlett
George	Slater
Groves	Sloan
Hickory Indian	Spring
Lee	Stover
Pilot Grove	Sweetwater
Pot Rack	Throckmorton
Price	Wilson
Rush	White Rock
Sabine
Sister Grove
Stiff
Tickey
Tom Bean
Wolf Run

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