West Sandy Creek
West Sandy Creek rises fifteen miles southwest of Huntsville in far
southwestern Walker County (at 30°39' N, 95°50' W) and runs southeast
fifteen miles to its mouth on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River,
near Lake Conroe (at 30°35' N, 95°39' W). It crosses gently rolling to
gently sloping terrain, surfaced by sandy loam that supports loblolly
pine-sweetgum, loblolly pine-shortleaf pine, water oak-elm, pecan-elm,
post oak-black hickory, and willow oak-blackgum woods along the banks of
the creek. The lower course of the creek traces the northwestern
boundary of the Sam Houston National Forest.
Anglo-American settlement in the vicinity began in the early 1830s. The
Farris community was established on the south bank of the middle creek
in the early 1840s. In the early twentieth century the Wesley Grove
School for Blacks was located near the creek's headwaters. TSHA
Texas State Historical Association
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/west-sandy-creek-walker-county