Teacup Mountain

Teacup Mountain rises to 1,905 feet near Gentry Creek and the settlement of Teacup, eight miles northeast of Junction. It stands in a flat area cut by deep local dissections, its shallow, stony soils grown with live oak, juniper, ash and mesquite. Five miles southeast of Teacup, East and West Sycamore creeks meet to form Sycamore Creek, which runs 4.5 miles north to the Llano River three miles south-southwest of Yates. Its branches, West Sycamore of 7.5 miles, East Sycamore of five and Middle Sycamore of three, all rise in the Blue Mountains of southeastern Kimble County.

What the plaque says

Teacup Mountain Named for its peculiar formation. Probably used as a lookout post by both whites and Indians in pioneer days. Near here occurred the Indian killing of pioneer James Bradberry, Sr., 1872; and the capture of a wanted man by LT. N. O. Reynolds and four fellow Texas Rangers in 1878. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kimble County Historical Museum — 6.6 mi
  A free county museum in Junction, the town at the meeting of the North and South Llano, with the papers, photographs and tools of a ranching county.
• Eckert James River Bat Cave Preserve — 21 mi
  A limestone cave on the James River where about four million Mexican free-tailed bats raise their young each summer, kept open to visitors by a family's gift.
• Fort Mason — 30 mi
  A reconstructed officers' quarters on Post Oak Hill above Mason, standing where the army's stone fort was taken apart by the town that grew up below it.
• Fort McKavett State Historic Site — 32 mi
  The post Sherman called the prettiest in Texas, home to soldiers of all four Buffalo Soldier regiments and then to a town that lived in its buildings until 1973.

More markers nearby

• Cloud Point — 3.6 mi
• Miller-Browning Colony — 3.6 mi
• The Oliver Pecan — 4.5 mi
• Site of Ivy Chapel and School — 5.1 mi