Landmarks and landlords

[heath]

I was reading an article on the main page, and i got to wondering what wierd names of pastures you've heard of or have?
A ranch i worked at after college had a couple: Murdered Guy, Tree Lady, The Island, Fish. Then some common ones after the land: east of the creek, north and south Doyle(there was a little cemetery separating them called Doyle cemetery, rye 120,red barn, bull 80, south of the sign(ranch sign).
Kinda got carried away, didn't think I'd remember near that many. :)

 

[Tim/South]

We have the Big Shipp Field and the Little Shipp Field. They are named after the family my parents bought them from back in the '50's.
We had a teen who always helped around the place. One day he left a note telling his mother where he was.
All those years he did not know we were saying "Shipp". He thought the name ended in a T and the note proved it.
He laughed and said he always thought we called it that because of the chicken litter we had spread back then.

 

[heath]

:lol:

 

[cow pollinater]

I have lake face, above the elbow, contemplation rock and Homers on the ranch that I own. One of the valley pastures that I lease from my dad is the hidden oak for the rotten oak wood that he found the first time that he mowed it.
My buddy bought a ranch right up the road from me and bought the brand that came with it, SF for Steep F!@#%^. He re-named it but people have been calling it that for years so it stuck. I try to be busy when he wants help. :mrgreen:
The ranch I learned to cowboy on had The T.A.P., Dahlem, upper Dahlem, Flats, and main Flats as well as The Bogs and a bunch that just had a section number. On that place every windmill had a historical name so even in the section pastures we could meet up "at indian".
There are alot of common ones like sulfer, four corners, etc that cover multiple owners but you kind of know where to be based on who you're talking to.

 

[Bigfoot]

I call my heifer lot the 9 acre field. Somebody posted a link to an app that will calculate acreage. I can't admit defeat. It's only 6.5 acres. I'm not changing the name.

 

[Deepsouth]

I call my heifer lot the 9 acre field. Somebody posted a link to an app that will calculate acreage. I can't admit defeat. It's only 6.5 acres. I'm not changing the name.

Troy you could call that lower pasture the turkey field. Then again you could call any of your pastures the turkey field.

 

[Bigfoot]

I call my heifer lot the 9 acre field. Somebody posted a link to an app that will calculate acreage. I can't admit defeat. It's only 6.5 acres. I'm not changing the name.

Troy you could call that lower pasture the turkey field. Then again you could call any of your pastures the turkey field.

It's been named hope outdoors in your honor.

 

[greybeard]

Got one we call the palmetto flat. Hard as a hooker's heart in dry times and a bog if there ever was one all the rest of the time.
The 40 acres just to my south we have a single name for--The trashy neighbor's place. belongs to my sister and she hasn't done a thing to it--all brush, woods, vine and thicket.

Streams and creeks always intrigued me--or their names anyway. There was one out south of San Angelo called Frog Pond Creek, a Dead Cow Creek and there's another on I-10 near Sequin called Woman Hollering Creek. It was only after the internet came that I found out why it is called that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman_Hollering_Creek

I don't think I have ever lived anywhere there wasn't a Brushy Creek or a Rocky Creek--and usually one of each with a "big" or "Little" in front of it.

 

[TexasBred]

The Maness place, the lower place, 21, The Bell Place, The Cannon Place and 21. Got the stump pasture but finally cleaned it up the name no longer fits but won't ever change.