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Located near the city of Marble Falls, the lake is used as a venue for aquatic recreation and for the purpose of generating hydroelectric power. It is the newest and smallest of the Texas Highland Lakes. The other reservoirs on the Colorado River are Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, and Lady Bird Lake.
Marble Falls (Marble Fork Falls) – 600 ft (180 m) Middle Fork Tule River Falls – 50 ft (15 m) Panther Creek Falls; Peppermint Creek Falls – 150 ft (46 m) Rock Creek Falls – 100 ft (30 m) Salmon Creek Falls – 450 ft (140 m) + South Creek Falls – 120 ft (37 m) South Fork Kaweah River Falls; Sky Blue Lake Falls – 50 ft (15 m)
The river is an important source of water for farming, cities, and electrical power production. Major man-made reservoirs on the river include Lake Buchanan, Inks Lake, Lake LBJ, Lake Marble Falls, Lake Travis, Lake Austin, Town Lake now called Lady Bird Lake in Austin. Collectively, these lakes are known as the Highland Lakes.
Beaver Dam, Maryland, a now "flooded marble quarry in Cockeysville, Maryland, that has been used as a swimming location since the 1930s. Source of dolomitic marble known specifically as Cockeysville Marble for the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. and many other purposes in the eastern U.S. Greenspring Quarry, now a lake, Pikesville, Maryland
Likewise, Lake LBJ was originally named Lake Granite Shoals until 1965 when it was renamed for another advocate of the LCRA, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Wirtz Dam and Lake LBJ are located due west of Lake Marble Falls and the city of Marble Falls, Texas. [2]
Marble Falls is a city in Burnet County, Texas, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 7,037. Lake Marble Falls is part of the Highland Lakes on the Colorado River, the largest chain of lakes in Texas. [4] Marble Falls was founded by Adam Rankin Johnson [5] in 1887, a former Indian fighter and Confederate ...
A total solar eclipse will cross North American skies on April 8, and Ohio residents will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to view it. But now, fewer Ohioans will experience 100% darkness ...
Located near Marble Falls, Texas, Starcke Dam was the last of the six Highland Lakes dams to be built. Originally called Marble Falls Dam, the dam was renamed in 1962 for Max Starcke, a former Mayor of Seguin, Texas. Starcke was also the second general manager of the Lower Colorado River Authority and served in that position from 1940 through 1955.