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Grapevine Lake is a reservoir in North Texas about 20 mi (32 km) northwest of Dallas and northeast of Fort Worth. It was impounded in 1952 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when they dammed Denton Creek , a tributary of Trinity River .
Lake Alan Henry The following is a list of reservoirs and lakes in the U.S. state of Texas . Swimming, fishing, and/or boating are permitted in some of these lakes, but not all.
Denton Creek is a creek in Texas, beginning in Wise County, and flowing south-east into Denton County. It was dammed by the Army Corps of Engineers to make Lake Grapevine. The Army Corps of Engineers are in charge of the height but still flooded many areas in early 2016. After flowing out of the lake, it flows into the Trinity River.
Crews from eight area fire departments, including DFW Airport, assisted Grapevine crews in extinguishing the blaze Sunday afternoon. Large fire at Grapevine’s Silver Lake Marina injures one ...
Grapevine Creek is a creek in Tarrant County, Texas. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The creek rises west of the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine and flows for eight miles. [ 3 ] The creek meets the Elm Fork of the Trinity River west of Farmers Branch .
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
The Surfside Vykruta Jetty Trail is a 4300' long man-made jetty constructed primarily of large granite slabs located in the southeast tip of Surfside Beach, Texas. The jetty extends 3464' into the Gulf of Mexico and protects the Freeport Harbor Channel. The trailhead is accessible from the Surfside Jetty County Park, a 15-acre day use beach park.
The City of Irving, Texas leased land south of the lake as a park in the 1980s and 1990s. North Lake Park was popular with personal watercraft enthusiasts and provided a runway for radio-controlled aircraft. The owner of the lake, power company TXU, turned down offers in 2000 to sell the land to the cities of Coppell, Texas or Irving, Texas.