244 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



SHELBY COUNTY. 



BY JOSEPH B. WALKER. 



This county, lying between north latitude 31° 35' and 32°, and west longi- 

 tude 93° 50' and 94° 30', has an area of eight hundred and two square miles. 



From a municipality named Teneha it was renamed Shelby County, in 

 honor of Gen. Isaac Shelby of Kentucky, by the Executive Council in 1835. 



Acreage. — The number of acres is five hundred and thirteen thousand two 

 hundred and eighty. The number of acres in field cultivation in 1889-90 

 was forty-six thousand two hundred and eighty-six, or 9 per cent, and in fruit 

 and garden, seven hundred and fourteen acres. 



DRAINAGE. 



This county is watered and drained on the east by the Sabine River, which 

 forms its eastern boundary, and also the boundary between the State of 

 Texas and the State of Louisiana. The tributaries on the west are Teneha 

 Bayou and its forks, Cedar Creek, Slough Bayou, Plum Creek, Prairie Creek, 

 Huana Bayou; Granie Creek; Siepe Bayou and its forks, Siepe Branch, 

 Bayou Blue, South Fork; Stone Bayou and its four forks, including Sanders 

 Creek, Marbinel Creek; Patroon Bayou and its several forks, including Run- 

 ning Fork, Mill Creek, and Buckley's Creek. 



The western and southwestern portions of the county are watered and 

 drained by the Attoyac Bayou, which forms the western boundary of the 

 county. 



The tributaries on the northern and eastern side are Caney Branch; Bear 

 Bayou; Stockman's Branch; Lion's Branch; Sandy Creek, formerly Hooper's 

 Creek; Arenoso Creek and its forks, Dillard Creek and Boggy Creek. The 

 Attoyac is a tributary of the Angelina River. The Angelina, a tributary of 

 the Neches, and the Sabine empty separately into Sabine Lake, and this, by 

 Sabine Pass, into the Gulf of Mexico. 



SURFACE. 



The high ridges, originally part of the elevated Tertiary plain, extend, as 

 remnants, from northwest corner to the central southern boundary, forming 

 the water shed between the tributaries of the Sabine River on the east and 

 the tributaries of the Attoyac Fork of the Angelina River on the west. 



The remainder of the county is broken rolling upland, and alluvial bottom 

 land as valleys along the streams. 



