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The federal government constructed the reservoir on Carpenter's Bayou in 1942 in order to support growing war-related industries along the Houston Ship Channel. 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 Lake was established by the federal government in 1943 through the construction of a dam on its tributary, Carpenters Bayou. Its original purpose was to provide a source of fresh water to Houston and industries operating on the Houston Ship Channel. [2] The City of Houston began managing the reservoir following World War II.
The lake feeds Galveston Bay. It is bordered by Houston (Clear Lake City), Pasadena, League City, Clear Lake Shores, Taylor Lake Village, Seabrook and El Lago, Texas. NASA's Johnson Space Center lies near its shores. The lake is a major recreation center and home to one of the largest concentrations of recreational boats and marinas in the nation.
Mangum Road / Dacoma Street / 18th Street / Hempstead Road: No eastbound entrance: N/A: I-10 east / Hempstead Road / Katy Road – NW Transit Center, Downtown: Eastbound exit for 290 Express Lane; east end of HOV/toll lanes at I-10, exit 763. 274.372: 441.559: I-610: Eastern terminus; I-610 exit 13A; redesigned tri-stack interchange.
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).
SH 249; [37] access to HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball: 21.81: 35.10: FM 2920 / Bus. SH 249 south – Tomball, Hooks Airport / Alice Road: Access to HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball: 23.26: 37.43: Brown Road / Baker Road / Zion Road: Access to Lone Star College-Tomball campus: Harris–Montgomery county line 24.72: 39.78: Tomball Tollway ends ...
In Sugar Land and Missouri City, it is known as Alvin-Sugarland Road and runs perpendicular to Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 (I-69/US 59). In the Houston area, it runs north to Farm to Market Road 1960 (FM 1960), then northwest along US 290 to Hempstead, and south to Westheimer Road and Addicks , and is known as Addicks Satsuma Road.
Clear Lake, or the Clear Lake Area, is a region in parts of Harris and Galveston County in Texas, United States. It is part of the Galveston Bay Area , which itself is a section of the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.