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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 ...
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.
Seventh St. during the May 1949 flood of the Trinity River. At least 10 people were killed and 13,000 left homeless during one of the worst floods in the city’s history. The Army Corps of ...
Trinity Bay is the northeast portion of Galveston Bay, bordered by Chambers and Harris counties in Texas, United States. [1] The bay, approximately 20 miles (32 km) long, heads at the mouth of the Trinity River. Trinity Bay is separated from the main part of Galveston Bay by the San Jacinto River, part of the Houston Ship Channel.
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 ...
The Great Trinity Forest portion of the project consists of 6,000 acres (24 km 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 said ...
Trinity was founded in 1872 on land purchased from the New York and Texas Land Company. The town was a railroad station on the Houston and Great Northern Railroad. [7] The town was originally named Trinity Station after the Trinity River. The name of the town was later changed to Trinity City, then to Trinity. The town was incorporated in 1910.
Trinity River — the longest river flowing entirely within Texas, its course is from North Texas to its river mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. Pages in category "Trinity River (Texas)" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total.