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Web Author's Note

Name

Geronimo Creek raging Geronimo creek
Geronimo Creek ~ Beautiful and inviting, peaceful and serene (right), 
                                                 the creek warns of its power to become devastatingly treacherous (left).
No, this town is not named for the Apache Indian chief, Geronimo.  It was, instead, named for the usually serene and inviting, but occasionally treacherous, Geronimo Creek.  The creek ran through José Antonio Navarro's ranch which he named "San Geronimo" after St. Jerome.  It was from the ranch that the creek derived it's name when Navarro acquired it which was in 1824, five years before the Apache was born.Etlinger, p. 2; "Guadalupe Guide," Seguin Gazette Enterprise, 1981.