Blackwater Draw

Historical marker location:

US 70, Clovis vicinity, New Mexico

( north of Clovis)

In Blackwater Draw stream gravels are famous camp sites of Folsom Man. Draw is in Portales Valley, eroded into High Plains, and headwaters of Brazos River, beheaded by lower Pecos River in Pleistocene time. Local sand dunes conceal underlying Ogallala sandstones whose “fossil” water feeds irrigated corps. Elevation–4,070 feet.