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Lake Cisco is a lake located north of Cisco in Eastland County, Texas. [2] Texas State Highway 6 passes the lake on the eastern shore. [4] It is owned by the city of Cisco for municipal water purposes. [3] Fish species found in Lake Cisco include largemouth bass, channel catfish, white crappie, and redear sunfish. [2]
Gray's New Map of Cisco, Eastland Co., Texas, 1885. Cisco, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and Interstate 20 in northwestern Eastland County, traces its history back to 1878 or 1879, when Rev. C. G. Stevens arrived in the area, established a post office and a church, and called the frontier settlement "Red Gap". About six families were ...
The community was named for the clear waters in the nearby Cypress Creek. White settlers arrived in the 1860s, but the community itself did not appear until the next decade. There was a sawmill, a gin, a store, and a church in the community in the 1930s. Its population was 25 in 1933, which grew to 50 by 1945.
Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States. It is part of the Galveston Bay Area , which itself is a section of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.
The Clear Lake City Community Association, Inc. (CLCAA) operates the Kermet H. Applewhite Sports and Recreation Center at 16511 Diana Lane. The center includes an indoor heated pool, a fitness room, several outdoor pools, an air-conditioned gymnasium, and tennis courts. [5] The Clear Lake Golf Course opened in 1963 and closed in 2005. [38]
The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston (Clear Lake City), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas. NASA's Johnson Space Center lies near its shores. The lake is a major recreation center and home to one of the largest concentrations of recreational boats and marinas in the nation.
Map of Clear Lake Shores. Clear Lake Shores is located at (29.546493, –95.032605) [6] and is part of the Clear Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6 km 2), of which 0.5 square miles (1.3 km 2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km 2), or 27.69%, is water.