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Sheldon is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Harris County, Texas, United States, located completely inside the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the City of Houston. The Sheldon area is located along Beltway 8 and US Highway 90, approximately twelve miles (19 km) northeast of Downtown Houston.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the reservoir in 1952 to provide a refuge for migratory waterfowl, a public fishing lake and a fish hatchery. It opened in 1955 as the Sheldon Wildlife Management Area. The hatchery closed in 1975, and the land began to revert naturally to forest, ponds and marshes.
Sheldon Lake is a reservoir in Sheldon Lake State Park (SLSP) located in Harris County [1] approximately 16 mi. (26 km) northeast of downtown Houston, Texas. It is positioned within the San Jacinto River Basin, on Carpenters Bayou. [2] It contains a variety of prairie and wetland habitats. [3]
In October of that year, Abbott stated that the Texas Legislature should open an investigation into Colony Ridge. [11] In October 2023 Steven P. Mach, the chairperson of the Texas Public Safety Commission, stated that Colony Ridge "doesn't look a whole lot different than any other rural community, except for the concentration of people.
The reservoir was created in 1953 when the City of Houston built the dam to impound a reservoir to replace Sheldon Lake, then the primary source of water for the city. The city sold Sheldon Lake to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department for use as a waterfowl sanctuary and public fishing site.
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Sheldon Independent School District is a public school district in unincorporated northeast Harris County, Texas . The majority of the district lies in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of Houston with a small portion within city limits. Sheldon ISD covers 53.5 square miles and serves several neighborhoods in the Sheldon Lake area ...