The river swings hard against the bluff on one side and leaves a wide flat on the other, which is the ordinary behaviour of a meander — fast water on the outside of a bend cuts, slow water on the inside drops its load. That flat is why the town is where it is: deep alluvial soil that grew cotton, with a ford at the bend. The Colorado carried enough sediment historically to be one of the muddiest rivers in the state, and the dams upstream have since taken most of that load out of it.
Getting there
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