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Stockton Bend, formerly Brazos Bend, is a city in Hood County, Texas, United States. It was incorporated in May 2004 [4] originally as "Brazos Bend", and is located along the main stem of the Brazos River. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 380. [3] The city is part of the Granbury, Texas Micropolitan Statistical Area. The name was ...
The Texas Parks and Wildlife staff and the Brazos Bend State Park Volunteer Organization put on a variety of education programs on a weekly basis at the park, and actively conduction outreach efforts in the local area. Popular programs include bird and photography hikes, alligator and snake education programs, and guided hikes of Creekfield Lake.
Brazos Bend State Park at PR 72 and FM 762. PR 72 was originally designated on August 21, 1978 in Hale Ranch State Park in Fort Bend County. The road began at the park entrance on FM 762 and ran eastward about 4.4 miles (7.1 km).
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 ...
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 ...
English: This is a locator map showing Brazos County in Texas. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Brazoria County, like Brazos County farther upriver, takes its name from the Brazos River. It served as the first settlement area for Anglo-Texas, when the Old Three Hundred emigrated from the United States in 1821. The county also includes what was once Columbia and Velasco, Texas, early capital cities of the Republic of Texas. The highest ...
Brazos Valley (/ ˈ b r æ z ə s / ⓘ BRAZ-əs) is a region of the U.S. state of Texas comprising the following 7 counties in Central Texas: Brazos, Burleson, and Robertson (which collectively comprise the Bryan–College Station metropolitan area), and the neighboring counties of Grimes, Leon, Madison, and Washington.