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The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers accounting for over 191,000 mi (307,000 km) of waterways.
Black Cypress Bayou. Blanco Creek. Blanco River (Texas) Blanket Creek. Bois D'Arc Creek. Bosque River. Bowman Branch (Texas) Brady Creek (San Saba River tributary) Brays Bayou.
Lake Amon G. Carter. Lake Anahuac (once known as Turtle Bay) Aquilla Lake. Amarillo Lake. Lake Arlington (Texas) Lake Arrowhead. Lake Athens (formerly known as Flat Creek Reservoir) Lake Austin. Averhoff Reservoir.
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 ...
Río Grande is Spanish for "Big River" and Río Grande del Norte means "Big River of the North". In English, Rio Grande is pronounced either / ˈriːoʊˈɡrænd / or / ˈriːoʊˈɡrɑːndeɪ /. In Mexico, it is known as Río Bravo or Río Bravo del Norte, bravo meaning (among other things) "furious", "agitated" or "wild".
The Colorado River is an approximately 862-mile-long (1,387 km) river [5] in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the 11th longest river in the United States [5] and the longest river with both its source and its mouth within Texas. [6] Its drainage basin and some of its usually dry tributaries extend into New Mexico.
Basin size. 4,180 sq mi (10,800 km 2) [ 2 ] Discharge. • average. 400 cu ft/s (11 m 3 /s) [ 1 ] The San Antonio River is a major waterway that originates in central Texas in a cluster of springs in midtown San Antonio, about 4 miles north of downtown, and follows a roughly southeastern path through the state. [ 3 ]
Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County. Dawson County, formed in 1858 in what is now Kinney County and Uvalde County and abolished in 1866 (not to be confused with the present-day Dawson County). Encinal County, formed in 1856. Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County.