I have seen the 600ft "High peak" on several on maps of Texas. Anybody know where this is?

Somewhere on the Brazos north of the Bosque and south of the Red Fork

Looks to be immediately east of the Hwy 281 crossing on the Brazos River along the south side of the river.

Looks to me it's somewhere east of the trinity but west of Crockett.

There's a big hill you drive up on 79. I'm gonna bet somewhere in there

On further looking around.

Ft. Houston was just west of Palestine.

So, I think I'm in the right vicinity

Does this look close?

Do you have a link to the full map?

How about this peak southwest of Granbury. Looks like it could rise 600 feet above surrounding terrain, and is in the right area. Roads going up to it are called "Peak Road"



It's called Comanche Peak, elevation at top is 1226', elevation of Brazos at closest approach is 700', so the numbers are close.

Good way to visualize topo:

https://en-us.topographic-map.com/

Scale on the OP map would be really helpful.

Palo Pinto Creek joins the Brazos just north of the I-20/US-281 intersection. Rio Bosque joins at Waco. The cropped pic doesn't show a name for the river or creek coming in from the northeast.

The peak identified in the previous post would seem to be a good candidate.

Where the nuclear power plant is?

No, the peak is across the offensively named Sqauw Creek Reservoir from the plant.

Palo Pinto Creek empties into the Brazos and the hill is SE of that. Several nice homes now on top of that hill.

Palo Pinto Creek empties into the Brazos between Brazos, Texas and I-20 near Santo.
The mouth of the Bosque River is 95 miles from that point in a straight line.

There is only one river that empties into the Brazos from the east in the span; the Nolan River in Hill County. Its headwaters is near Godley.

The highest point in Somervell County is 1310 foot East Chalk Mountain near, you guessed it, Chalk Mountain.

The highest point in Hood County is Comanche Peak as previously mentioned.

My vote is Comanche Peak just 3.8 miles southwest of downtown Granbury on private property.

Geez... head was too deep into topo maps and Google Earth to see the above post. Apologies.

CanyonAg77 said:

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Do you have a link to the full map?

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Sorry I should have put this in the OP

The "peak" is about 21 Long. and 32 Lat (according to the map)

https://spotlight.library.tamu.edu/spotlight/charting-texas/catalog/b03df1c8352799d667de2443efe63603

Comanche Peak is about 32N 98W

32N 21W is in the East Atlantic, near the Azores

CanyonAg77 said:

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Comanche Peak is about 32N 98W

32N 21W is in the East Atlantic, near the Azores

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32N and 21W is what the map I linked to records.

doubledog said:

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CanyonAg77 said:

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Comanche Peak is about 32N 98W

32N 21W is in the East Atlantic, near the Azores

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32N and 21W is what the map I linked to records.

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I had to get home to the desktop to see it well.

If you look at the top of the map, it shows it as 98 degrees west of Greenwich.

If you look closely at the bottom of the map, that marking is 21 degrees west of Washington, DC

Apparently an archaic measurement that didn't catch on. Kind of interesting. I wonder if they were trying to make the world switch from Greenwich to DC

Guess I was way off. The scale through me off

CanyonAg77 said:

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doubledog said:

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CanyonAg77 said:

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Comanche Peak is about 32N 98W

32N 21W is in the East Atlantic, near the Azores

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32N and 21W is what the map I linked to records.

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I had to get home to the desktop to see it well.

If you look at the top of the map, it shows it as 98 degrees west of Greenwich.

If you look closely at the bottom of the map, that marking is 21 degrees west of Washington, DC

Apparently an archaic measurement that didn't catch on. Kind of interesting. I wonder if they were trying to make the world switch from Greenwich to DC

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So High Peak = Comanche Peak. Makes sense. The original map shows the peak on the Brazos, which may be due to a map error.

The map is full of faults, I agree. Especially when you get to the then less explored Panhandle.

But look at the scale of the map in the OP. It covers 100s of miles. Comanche Peak is probably less than 2 miles from the Brazos, and probably easily seen from it.

Given the scale of the map in the OP, "right next to the Brazos" is accurate.