Salt Flat is a ghost town in northeastern Hudspeth County, Texas, United States. It lies along the concurrent U.S. Routes 62 and 180 north of Sierra Blanca, the county seat of Hudspeth County. Beginning in the mid-1600s, the salt flat served as a vital resource for Tigua Indian and Hispanic communities throughout the San Elizario area, who traveled for days across the Trans-Pecos region to harvest the valuable essential mineral. Disputes over rights and ownership began in the 1860s and came to a head in 1877 when Charles Howard claimed ownership of the salt bed and began charging a fee. The move angered Mexican and Mexican American citizens who considered the resource public property under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and triggered the Salt War

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