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  2. List of dams and reservoirs in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Texas.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).

  3. Category:Dams in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Dams on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (3 P) Pages in category "Dams in Texas" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total.

  4. Category:Reservoirs in Texas - Wikipedia

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    All reservoirs in Texas should be included in this category. The main article for this category is List of dams and reservoirs in Texas; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Reservoirs in Texas; See also category Lakes of Texas

  5. Texas Highland Lakes - Wikipedia

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    Lake Buchanan, the largest of the Texas Highland Lakes. The Texas Highland Lakes are a chain of fresh water reservoirs in Central Texas formed by dams on the lower Colorado River. [1] The Texas Colorado River winds southeast from West Texas to Matagorda Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. The lower Colorado River basin has a history of major flooding.

  6. Canyon Dam (Texas) - Wikipedia

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    The dam is 6,830 feet (2,080 m) long, across a narrow section of the Guadalupe River valley. The top of the dam is 974 feet (297 m) above sea level, or 224 feet (68 m) above the riverbed. A spillway, located south of the dam, protects the dam by releasing water when the lake level rises to 943 feet (287 m) above sea level.

  7. Toledo Bend Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Toledo Bend straddles the Louisiana and Texas border west of Many.. Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres (750 km 2), the largest man-made body of water partially in both Louisiana and Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest by surface acre in the United States.

  8. Buchanan Dam, Texas - Wikipedia

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    Buchanan Dam (/ b ə k ˈ h æ n ə n / bək-HAN-ən) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Llano County, Texas, United States. The population was 1,519 at the 2010 census, [ 3 ] down from 1,688 at the 2000 census.

  9. Addicks Reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Addicks Reservoir is formed by a rolled earthen dam 61,666 feet (18,796 m) long and above the streambed. A 12-foot-wide (3.7 m) gravel road extends along the top of the dam. The top of the dam has a maximum elevation of 121 feet (37 m) above the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 1988) and is almost 50 feet (15 m) high in points.