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Toledo Bend straddles the Louisiana and Texas border west of Many.. Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (750 km 2), the largest man-made body of water partially in both Louisiana and Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest by surface acre in the United States. [1]
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 ...
Lake Powell, impounded by Glen Canyon Dam, is the second-largest reservoir in the U.S.. This is a list of largest reservoirs in the United States, including all artificial lakes with a capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).
North Toledo Bend State Park. / 31.548°N 93.733°W / 31.548; -93.733. North Toledo Bend State Park is one of two Louisiana State Parks located on the shores of Toledo Bend Reservoir. The park, which is over 900 acres (3.6 km 2) in size, is located west of the town of Zwolle, Louisiana at the end of La. Hwy. 3229.
The Channel was used by steamboats to reach the port at Jefferson, until water levels fell after the removal of the Great Raft.. Caddo Lake has been used by Native Americans for thousands of years, but substantial commercial development would only begin with invention of the steamboat and US annexation of Louisiana and Texas by treaty (Texas is the only State in the United States to have ...
The Reservoir is upstream of the Big Thicket National Preserve. The reservoir's capacity is 3,997,600 acre-feet (4.9310 × 10 9 m 3 ), and is the largest lake wholly within the state of Texas. It is the ninth largest reservoir in the United States. Sam Rayburn Reservoir is operated by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth district.
Basin size. 4,377 km 2 (1,690 sq mi) [ 2 ] The White River is an intermittent stream in the South Plains of Texas and a tributary of the Brazos River of the United States. It rises 8 miles (13 km) west of Floydada in southwestern Floyd County at the confluence of Callahan and Runningwater Draws. From there, it runs southeast for 62 miles (100 ...
Elkhead Reservoir. Englewood Dam. Green Mountain Reservoir. Gross Dam – Gross Reservoir. Horsetooth Dam – Horsetooth Reservoir, built as part of the Colorado-Big Thompson project. John Martin Reservoir. McNulty Reservoir Dam. McPhee Dam – McPhee Reservoir. Morrow Point Dam – Morrow Point Reservoir.