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  2. Trinity River (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity River is a 710-mile (1,140 km) [2] river, the longest with a watershed entirely within the U.S. state of Texas. It rises in extreme northern Texas, a few miles south of the Red River. The headwaters are separated by the high bluffs on the southern side of the Red River. The Trinity River was previously identified as the stream that ...

  3. List of rivers of Texas - Wikipedia

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    Trinity River – 423 miles (681 km) entirely in Texas. Sabine River – 360 miles (580 km) of which 360 miles (580 km) are in Texas. Neches River – 416 miles (669 km) entirely in Texas. Nueces River – 315 miles (507 km) entirely in Texas. The Trinity River is the longest river with its entire drainage basin in Texas.

  4. San Jacinto River (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The San Jacinto River (/ ˌsæn dʒəˈsɪntoʊ / SAN jə-SIN-toh, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈri.o ˈsaŋ xaˈsinto]) flows through southeast Texas. It is named after Saint Hyacinth. In the past, it was home to the Karankawa [citation needed] and Akokisa tribes. The river begins with a west and east fork; the west fork begins in Walker County ...

  5. Lewisville Lake - Wikipedia

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    Lewisville Lake, formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, is a reservoir in North Texas (USA) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and renamed Lewisville Lake. It was built for flood control purposes and to ...

  6. Galveston Bay - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf Coast gained its present configuration during the most recent glacial period approximately 18 ka (thousands of years ago). Low global sea levels allowed the Texas mainland to extend significantly farther south than it does presently, and the Trinity River had carved a 170-foot (52 m) deep canyon through present-day Bolivar Roads (the exit of the Houston Ship Channel) on its way to the ...

  7. Great Trinity Forest - Wikipedia

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    The Great Trinity Forest portion of the project consists of 6,000 acres (24 km 2), [2] primarily in the area of the Trinity River as it traverses Dallas County just south of Downtown Dallas. In 1983, the Texas Legislature designated 900 acres of the area to be the Trinity River State Park, however, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department later ...

  8. Trinity River Authority - Wikipedia

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    The Trinity River Authority (TRA) was formed in 1955 by the Texas legislature. Its main concerns are water supply and water conservation in the Trinity River Basin. The authority extends over 17,965 square miles (46,529 km 2), including all or part of 17 counties. [1] The general offices of the authority are located in Arlington, Texas.

  9. Lavon Lake - Wikipedia

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    Lavon Lake is a freshwater reservoir located in southeast Collin County, Texas, on the East Fork of the Trinity River near Wylie, off State Highway 78. [1] It is commonly called Lake Lavon for commercial and recreational purposes, but Lavon Lake is its official name according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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