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Lake Conroe is a 21,000-acre (85 km 2) lake in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. Even though it is named Lake Conroe, only the southern third of the lake is in Conroe, Texas . Most of the lake is in unincorporated Montgomery County, while a small northern sliver juts into neighboring Walker County where the Baker Bridge is located.
It passes near Lake Conroe before entering the city of Conroe and an intersection with Interstate 45. The route continues east, passing through the very southern edge of Sam Houston National Forest before reaching Cleveland and an intersection with Future Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59. The route continues east out of Cleveland, briefly coinciding ...
The previous Houston-Dallas route through Willis, U.S. route 75, is now Texas State Highway 75, running parallel to Interstate 45 through downtown Willis. Farm to Market Road 1097 connects Willis to Lake Conroe and Montgomery to the west. Its eastern terminus is Texas State Highway 150 to the east of New Waverly.
Montgomery County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county had a population of 620,443. [1] The county seat is Conroe. [2] The county was created by an act of the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 14, 1837, and is named for the town of Montgomery. [3]
[4] [5] FM 149 then passes to the west of Lake Conroe and enters the Sam Houston National Forest, where it begins to turn to the west. The highway crosses into Grimes County , where it is signed as a west–east route, and passes through Richards before turning to the southwest.
The river begins with a west and east fork; the west fork begins in Walker County, to the west of Huntsville, and flows southeast through Montgomery County, where it is dammed to create Lake Conroe. The east fork begins in San Jacinto County, a few miles west of Lake Livingston, then flows south through Cleveland.
State Highway 75 (SH 75) is a 132.63-mile-long (213.45 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Texas.It follows the former routing of U.S. Route 75 (US 75), which was supplanted by Interstate 45 south of Dallas, except in Dallas, where the former US 75 is now SH 310, and through Ferris, Palmer, Ennis, and Corsicana, where the old highway is signed as a business route of I-45.
The community, located at the junctions of U.S. Highway 290, Texas State Highway 6, and Texas State Highway 159, is about 50 miles northwest of downtown Houston. [5] The population was 5,770 at the 2010 census.