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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 ...
Dams of the Brazos River Authority — located on the Brazos River in central Texas. Pages in category "Brazos River Authority dams" The following 2 pages are in this ...
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. The ...
The Brazos River Authority manages dams that create three reservoirs on the Brazos River and its tributaries: Lake Granbury on the Brazos River; Lake Limestone on the Navasota River; Possum Kingdom Lake on the Brazos River; The Authority will also manage the dam that will create Allens Creek Reservoir on Allens Creek, in the event it is ever built.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Brazos River Authority dams (2 P) Pages in category "Brazos River Authority"
The construction of the dam started in May 1947 and the Brazos River was impounded in December 1951. The construction of the dam's powerhouse began in April 1951 and was completed in June 1953. [ 5 ] After a record-breaking drought in Texas during the 1950s , there was an emphasis on reservoirs serving a secondary purpose as water storage ...
Blue dots on a map circulating widely on social media show weirs that are still in place, not dams removed before Valencia flooding.
The Clear Fork Brazos River is the longest tributary of the Brazos River of Texas. [3] It originates as a dry channel or draw in Scurry County about 2 mi (3.2 km) northeast of Hermleigh and runs for about 180 mi (290 km) through portions of Scurry, Fisher, Jones, Shackelford, and Throckmorton counties before joining the main stem of the Brazos River in Young County about 7.8 mi (12.6 km) south ...