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2. Lake Texoma - Wikipedia

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   Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th-largest US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District. [1] Lake Texoma is formed by Denison Dam on the Red River in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and Grayson County, Texas, about 726 miles (1,168 km) upstream from the mouth of the river.

3. Denison Dam - Wikipedia

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   Denison Dam, also known as Lake Texoma Dam, is a dam located on the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma that impounds Lake Texoma. The purpose of the dam is flood control, water supply, hydroelectric power production, river regulation, navigation and recreation. [ 3 ]

4. Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge - Wikipedia

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   Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge (HNWR), a haven for migratory birds and other wildlife, lies in northwestern Grayson County, Texas, on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, on the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas. [1] This National Wildlife Refuge is made up of water, marsh, and upland habitat. Visitors can hike, observe wildlife, hunt, and ...

5. Preston, Texas - Wikipedia

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   The United States Army Corps of Engineers bought all the land in the area in the late 1930s for Lake Texoma. [13] After the filling of Lake Texoma, only the cemetery was left from Preston; which was on high ground overlooking the town. [13] The cemetery was expanded with a new section when Lake Texoma was created. Some of the existing graves ...

6. Sherman–Denison metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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   Lake Texoma. Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th largest US Army Corps of Engineers' (USACE) lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District. [11] Lake Texoma is formed by Denison Dam on the Red River in Bryan County, Oklahoma, and Grayson County, Texas, about 726 miles (1,168 km) upstream from the mouth of ...

7. List of ghost towns in Texas - Wikipedia

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   Submerged by the Lake Texoma impoundment in 1944 [207] Hale City: Hale: Merged with Epworth to form Hale Center. [208] Handley: Tarrant: 1876 1946 Historic community Absorbed by Fort Worth [209] Hart Camp: Harts Camp Lamb [210] Haslam: Shelby: Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [211] Hay Flat: Loving ...

8. Giant water-draining vortex opens up in Lake Texoma - AOL

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   A huge water-sucking vortex has opened up on Lake Texoma, which is located along the border of Texas and Oklahoma. Though it looks fierce and dangerous, the authorities have expressed that there's ...

9. Pottsboro, Texas - Wikipedia

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   Judge James G. Thompson and Mr. James Archer Potts both owned large ranches at the future site of Pottsboro, before its inception. [5]Pottsboro was established in 1876 by James A. Potts, a pioneer settler who donated land for a town and a right-of-way so the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad would extend its tracks westward from Denison to his settlement.