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Santa Fe Trail Route From Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe
From Wetmore's Gazetteer of the State of Missouri, 1837
page 269, the following table of distances is taken:
| Route From Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico | Distance |
| Camp Grove | 16 miles |
| Big Blue River Ford | 20 miles |
| Round Grove | 14 miles |
| Belmont | 20 miles |
| Left-hand Grove | 18 miles |
| Right-hand Grove | 18 miles |
| Elk Creek | 5 miles |
| Marie des Cignes | 11 miles |
| Rock Creek | 5 miles |
| Prairie Camp | 13 miles |
| Indian Camp | 9 miles |
| High-water Creek | 15 miles |
| Council Grove on the Neosho | 8 miles |
| Plain Creek | 5 miles |
| Diamond Spring | 8 miles |
| Prairie Spring | 8 miles |
| Hook's Spring {in prairie} | 8 miles |
| Cottonwood Grove | 13 miles |
| Lake Camp | 18 miles |
| Small Creek | 20 miles |
| Little Arkansas | 18 miles |
| Branch of Cow Creek | 12 miles |
| Main Cow Creek | 13 miles |
| Arkansas river | 15 miles |
| Walnut Creek {up the Arkansas} | 20 miles |
| Ash Creek | 24 miles |
| Pawnee Fork of Arkansas | 8 miles |
| Plain Camp | 15 miles |
| Little Pond | 21 miles |
| Small Drain | 20 miles |
| Anderson's Caches on the Arkansas | 20 miles |
| Pond Camp West of Arkansas river | 7 miles |
| The Two Ponds | 22 miles |
| Several Ponds | 19 miles |
| The Lake | 12 miles |
| Sandy Creek | 12 miles |
| Lone Pond | 14 miles |
| Small Pool | 22 miles |
| The Semiron | 8 miles |
| The Lower Spring | 2 miles |
| Salt Camp | 8 miles |
| Nitre Camp | 21 miles |
| The Willows | 7 miles |
| Saltpetrc Camp, in View of Sugar House Mound | 10 miles |
| Upper Semiron Spring | 10 miles |
| Seven Mile Creek | 7 miles |
| Drain Camp | 8 miles |
| Two Pools | 17 miles |
| Rocky Pool | 8 miles |
| Bad Water | 7 miles |
| Sugar Loaf | 5 miles |
| Kiawa Camp | 10 miles |
| Sabine Camp | 15 miles |
| Round Mound | 4 miles |
| Rocky Branch | 14 miles |
| Summit Level, in View of Rocky Mountains | 8 miles |
| Harl's Camp | 6 miles |
| Point of Rocks | 10 miles |
| Deep Hollow | 7 miles |
| Canadian Fork | 15 miles |
| Mule Creek | 6 miles |
| Pilot Knobs | 19 miles |
| Tar Kiln Grove | 20 miles |
| El Moro | 10 miles |
| El Sapiote | 2 miles |
| Rio Las Guineas | 18 miles |
| San Magil (village) | 25 miles |
| Santa Fe | 40 miles |
| Total Miles | 897 |
This Mileage Chart was found in "Wagon Tracks"
Volume 10 Number 1 November 1995
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