Buckeye Trail Timeline

100 million years ago

Shallow seas and tidal flats deposit limestone in bands running through North Texas

65 million years ago

The uplifting of the North American continent creates the Trinity River system, carving through limestone deposits and depositing alluvial sand as it drains toward the Gulf of Mexico

12,000 years ago

Humans begin living in North Central Texas in small extended family groups of hunter-gatherers

~1500BC

Indigenous people eventually known collectively as Wichita or Kirkir’i-s separate from Caddo tribe and occupy area from Kansas to Red River

~900-1200AD