BOGGY CREEK
Boggy Creek heads southeast of Preacher Cemetery
about ten miles north of Hamilton and drains into the
Leon River
below the Leon River Bridge on US 281 north of Hamilton. The
name was derived from its many bogs from which early day cattlemen had to
extricate cattle. CR 204 crosses Boggy Creek between CR 203 and CR
210.
"Boggy Creek heads on the old Preacher’s
place owned by Mrs. Finace (Finis) Simpson, runs through the Fulbright,
Jim Hale, Perry White, and A. L. Shipman ranches. Empties into
the Leon below the Hico bridge. In an early day the stockmen
had to pull so many cattle out of bog holes in this creek that they gave
it the name Boggy."--Doris LaRue Stapleton and Capt.
C. E. Horton.