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The list of rivers of Texas is a list of all named waterways, including rivers and streams that partially pass through or are entirely located within the U.S. state of Texas. Across the state, there are 3,700 named streams and 15 major rivers accounting for over 191,000 mi (307,000 km) of waterways.
St. Mary's was named as the county seat of Refugio County in the 1869 Texas Constitution, but lost the designation to the growing port of Rockport in 1871. [3] In the 1880s, the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway was built to Rockport rather than St. Mary's, and an 1886 hurricane destroyed a schoolhouse and the wharves. The town declined ...
Conterminous with the boundaries of St. Mary's County, the peninsula covers a land area of 361.25 square miles (935.6 km 2). [5] Northeast of St. Mary's Peninsula, on the opposite side of the Patuxent River, is the smaller Calvert Peninsula. Like St. Mary's Peninsula, Calvert Peninsula also has boundaries conterminous with a single Maryland county.
Although the town does not appear on county highway maps, The Texas Almanac 2018-2019 lists St. Mary's population at 50. [3] St. Mary's Community Center, formerly the old Rosenwald schoolhouse, is located on Highway 21 near the intersection of Laredo Drive. On maps, the address is shown as Dale, Texas.
The Mission–Aransas Estuary is the fifth largest of the Texas estuaries, with a surface area of 111,780 acres (45,240 ha) including Aransas Bay and its extensions in Redfish Bay to the southwest, Copano Bay to the northwest, and Saint Charles Bay to the north. The natural portions have an average depth of around 5.5 feet (1.7 m).
The St. Mary's Strip is an entertainment district in Midtown San Antonio. Located just north of downtown, "the St. Mary’s Strip" encompasses a section of North St. Mary's that is roughly bounded by Mistletoe Avenue and Grayson Street. [1] It is situated adjacent to the Pearl Brewery and is part of a rapidly redeveloping corridor of central ...
The St. Marys River (named Saint Marys River by the United States Geological Survey, [1]) is a 126-mile-long (203 km) [2] river in the southeastern United States. The river was known to the Timucua [ 3 ] [ 4 ] as Thlathlothlaguphka , [ 5 ] or Phlaphlagaphgaw , [ 6 ] meaning "rotten fish". [ 7 ]
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