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The Brazos River (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs, Spanish:), called the Río de los Brazos de Dios (translated as "The River of the Arms of God") by early Spanish explorers, is the 14th-longest river in the United States at 1,280 miles (2,060 km) from its headwater source at the head of Blackwater Draw, Roosevelt County, New Mexico [2] to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico with a 45,000-square ...
The De Cordova Bend Dam is a man-made dam on the Brazos River in Hood County, Texas, United States, controlled by the Brazos River Authority. De Cordova Bend Dam forms the 8,300-acre (34 km 2) Lake Granbury. The dam is so named because of the clockwise almost-complete loop in the Brazos River named De Cordova Bend after Jacob De Cordova.
Stockton Bend, formerly Brazos Bend, is a city in Hood County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated in May 2004 [4] originally as "Brazos Bend", and is located along the main stem of the Brazos River. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 380. [3] The city is part of the Granbury, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area. The name was ...
Granbury Town Square Granbury Railroad Depot. Granbury is a city in and the county seat of Hood County, Texas, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 10,958, and it is the principal city of the Granbury micropolitan statistical area. Granbury is named after Confederate General Hiram B. Granbury.
The route was extended southeast to Granbury on November 23, 1948, [4] replacing FM 7. On February 6, 1953, the route had been extended north to a road intersection south of the Brazos River, replacing FM 1193. On October 7, 1955, the route had been extended north across the river to Graford, replacing FM 1194.
The dam for the reservoir impounds the Brazos at the northwestern corner of the CDP. The community is 12 miles (19 km) southeast of Granbury, the Hood County seat. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 7.6 square miles (19.8 km 2 ), of which 0.2 sq mi (0.6 km 2 ), or 2.87%, is covered by water.
Brazos River in North Central Texas. Goodbye to a River is a book by John Graves, published in 1960. [1] It is a "semi-historical" account of a canoe trip made by the author during the fall of 1957 down a stretch of the Brazos River in North Central Texas, between Possum Kingdom Dam and Lake Whitney. The book presents both the author's account ...
An EF4 tornado hit the town of Granbury, Texas in Hood County around 8 p.m. CDT, damaging or destroying around 100 homes and killing six people, with the most severe damage occurring in the Rancho Brazos neighborhood; the Granbury storm was the first violent tornado to hit North Texas since an F4 tornado killed three people in Lancaster in ...