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October 10, 1996 (Rainbow Bridge) The Rainbow Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge are two bridges that cross the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake. It allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the river. Bridge City in Orange County is on the ...
Lake Livingston. / 30.74; -95.15. 1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure. Lake Livingston is a reservoir located in Piney Woods in Houston, Madison, Polk, San Jacinto, Trinity and Walker counties in east Texas, United States. Lake Livingston was built and is owned and operated by the Trinity River Authority (TRA) of Texas under contract ...
This table presents a non-exhaustive list of the former road and railway bridges with spans greater than 300 metres (984 ft). / 47.26667°N 122.55000°W / 47.26667; -122.55000 ( Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)) / 37.815111°N 122.356528°W / 37.815111; -122.356528 ( San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (East bridge))
The ten highest bridges in the United States: Royal Gorge Bridge —955'. Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge —900'. New River Gorge Bridge —876'. Foresthill Bridge —730'. Glen Canyon Dam Bridge —700'. Phil G. McDonald Bridge —700'. Rio Grande Gorge Bridge —565'.
Pennybacker Bridge. / 30.3500; -97.7970. The Percy V. Pennybacker Jr. Bridge in Austin, Texas, is a through-arch bridge across Lake Austin which connects the northern and southern sections of the Loop 360 highway, also known as the "Capital of Texas Highway." Due to its arched weathering-steel bridge and the rolling hills on its northern side ...
The Neches River (/ ˈ n eɪ tʃ ɪ z /) begins in Van Zandt County west of Rhine Lake [2] and flows for 416 miles (669 km) through the piney woods of east Texas, defining the boundaries of 14 counties on its way to its mouth on Sabine Lake near the Rainbow Bridge. Two major reservoirs, Lake Palestine and B. A. Steinhagen Reservoir are located ...
The Sabine River ( / səˈbiːn /) is a 360-mile (580 km) long river [ 5][ 6] in the Southern U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana, [ 3] From the 32nd parallel north and downstream, it serves as part of the boundary between the two states and empties into Sabine Lake, an estuary of the Gulf of Mexico . Over the first half of the 19th century, the ...
The Fred Hartman Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge [ 2] in the U.S. state of Texas spanning the Houston Ship Channel. The bridge carries 2.6 miles (4.2 km) of State Highway 146 (SH 146), between the cities of Baytown and La Porte [ 3] (east of Houston ). The bridge is also expected to carry State Highway 99 (SH 99) (Grand Parkway) when it is ...