Bitter Creek, Texas

Bitter Creek is a ghost town in Nolan County, Texas, United States. Its location is not known, as the community no longer exists.[1]

Bitter Creek was settled in the early 1880s by the Bardwell and Montgomery families. Bitter Creek is thought to have been located south of present Sweetwater, in northeast Nolan County.[2] In 1923, oil was discovered in Bitter Creek. By the 1950s, its population declined to only five residents.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report, Geographic Names Information System, 2004-02-20. Accessed 2007-12-22.
  2. ↑ "Texas Historical Association". Retrieved 13 April 2011.
  3. ↑ "Fractured Atlas Bitter Creek, Texas". Retrieved 13 April 2011.