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2. Lake Whitney (Texas) - Wikipedia

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   Lake Whitney is a flood control reservoir on the main stem of the Brazos River in Texas. It is located on River Mile Marker 442 and controls drainage for 17,656 square miles (45,730 km 2 ) of Texas and parts of New Mexico.

3. Lake Whitney State Park - Wikipedia

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   Lake Whitney was created in 1951 when the United States Army Corps of Engineers constructed a dam on the Brazos River in order to prevent flooding in downstream communities such as Waco. [ 2 ] The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department leased 775-acres along the east shore of Lake Whitney for Lake Whitney State Park from the United States ...

4. List of Texas state parks - Wikipedia

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   3,282.5 acres (1,328.4 ha) 1981 Lake Mineral Wells State Park: Lake Somerville State Park and Trailway - includes Birch Creek Unit and Nails Creek Unit Burleson, Lee 5,520 acres (2,233.9 ha) 1970 Lake Summerville State Park: Lake Tawakoni State Park: Hunt 376 acres (14,900 ha) 1984 Lake Tawakoni State Park: Lake Whitney State Park: Hill 1,280.7 ...

5. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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   "A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...

6. Laguna Park, Texas - Wikipedia

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   The community is situated at the southern end of Lake Whitney, near the dam. Following the completion of Whitney Dam in the early 1950s, Laguna Park became a recreation destination. Small stores and a post office opened to serve the surrounding agricultural area as well as visitors to Lake Whitney.

7. Rare, 10-acre home overlooking Folsom Lake hits Sacramento ...

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   If a breathtaking, 10-acre estate overlooking Folsom Lake in California sells for the asking price of $7.5 million, the deal will mark the second-highest residential sale ever in the Sacramento ...