Reeves County

Reeves County covers 2,626 square miles, flat and rolling in the north and mountainous in the far south, at elevations from 2,538 to 4,210 feet. The Barrilla Hills rise steeply 150 to 200 feet above the plain, and about 85 percent of the county is a broad, gently sloping plain of mountain outwash. Rain, about ten inches a year, gathers in shallow playas that come and go; the largest, Toyah Lake, is walled by cliffs ten to forty feet high. The Pecos drains the whole county.

What the plaque says

Reeves County Formed from Pecos County, created April 14, 1883. Organized November 4, 1884. Named in honor of George Robertson Reeves 1826-1882. A colonel in the Confederate army; member of the Texas Legislature. Pecos, the county seat. (1936)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Roy Orbison Museum — 30 mi
  A volunteer-run room in the oil town where Roy Orbison spent his high school years, opened on request, with a guitar he played and his tinted prescription sunglasses.

More markers nearby

• Reeves County-Pecos, Texas — steps away
• The Pecos Cantaloupe — steps away
• Spanish Explorers — steps away
• Mrs. Lillie W. Cole — steps away