| Yellow House Draw | |
|---|---|
 Yellow House Draw – a dry remnant of a wetter past | |
  Yellow House Draw  Yellow House Draw Yellow House Draw (the United States) | |
| Length | 130 kilometres (81 mi) |
| Area | 9,790 square kilometres (3,780 sq mi) |
| Geography | |
| Coordinates | 33°35′34″N 101°50′02″W / 33.59278°N 101.83389°W |
Yellow House Draw is an ephemeral watercourse about 236 km (147 mi) long, heading about 20 km (12 mi) southwest of Melrose, New Mexico, and tending generally east-southeastward across the Llano Estacado to the city of Lubbock, where it joins Blackwater Draw to form Yellow House Canyon at the head of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos River.[1] It stretches across Roosevelt, Curry, Bailey, Cochran, Hockley, and Lubbock Counties of eastern New Mexico and West Texas, and drains an area of 9,790 km2 (3,780 sq mi).[2]
- ^ United States Board on Geographical Names. 1964. Decisions on Geographical Names in the United States, Decision list no. 6402, United States Department of the Interior, Washington DC, p. 54.
- ^ Seaber, P.R., Kapinos, F.P. and Knapp, G.L. 1987. Hydrological unit maps. United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2294, p. 46.