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Lake Fork Reservoir is a reservoir located in Wood, Rains, and Hopkins counties in the state of Texas, between the towns of Quitman, Alba, Emory, and Yantis, Texas. It was impounded by the Lake Fork Dam in 1980, and reached its normal pool surface elevation of 403.0 feet (122.8 m) above mean sea level [ 1 ] in 1985.
Lake Fork Creek is a 78.4-mile-long (126.2 km) [1] river in Hunt, Rains, and Wood counties in Texas.It is a major tributary of the Sabine River, and has as its major tributaries Dry Creek, Glade Creek, Caney Creek, Little Caney Creek, Rainwater Creek, and Birch Creek.
Yantis is a town in Wood County, Texas, United States.The population was 405 at the 2020 census.The town is surrounded on three sides by Lake Fork Reservoir.It is located at the intersection of State Highway 154 and Farm to Market Road 17 approximately 12 miles north of the county seat of Quitman in northwestern Wood County.
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).
Lake Fork may refer to: Lake Fork, Illinois, a village; Lake Fork (Arkansas River tributary), in Colorado; Lake Fork Gunnison River, in Colorado; Lake Fork Mohican River, in Ohio; Lake Fork Creek, or Lake Fork of the Sabine River, in Texas Lake Fork Reservoir, on Lake Fork Creek in Texas; Lake Fork Peak, a mountain in New Mexico
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Paint Creek runs through Jones, Haskell, and Throckmorton counties, and is the main tributary of the Clear Fork Brazos River. Lake Stamford is formed where Paint Creek is impounded by Stamford Dam. The lake's primary inflow (and outflow) is Paint Creek. One mile past (east) of Stamford Dam is a site called Scott Crossing.
Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,900 feet (880 meters) above the South Fork Rio Hondo in less than one mile (1.6 km). The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, [4] and the name refers to Lake Fork which is a creek that originates between this peak and Wheeler Peak. [5]