The nearest paved road is Texas State Highway 207, which passes to the west at a distance around 3 mi (4.8 km).

It lies within the physiographic region known as the Rolling Plains in the highly eroded valley of the Salt Fork Brazos River.

In 1925, James A. Shoemaker brought his family to Crosby County, where he bought a quarter-section of land 3 miles south of the small community of Cap Rock.

Water was hauled in barrels by wagon from the Salt Fork Brazos River until a well was dug with hand tools.

[3] In 1953, the commissioners court proposed a 5 mi (8.0 km) paved road that would have connected the Valley Gin to the "Ralls and Post Highway" (SH 207).