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Watauga (/ w ɒ ˈ t ɔː ɡ ə /) [4] is a city in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 23,650 at the 2020 census . The city's businesses and retail markets are generally located on Highway 377 .
The Dallas Parks and Recreation Department is the department of the Government of Dallas responsible for maintaining the city's parks system, preserving and maintaining the ecological diversity of the city's natural areas, and furnishing recreational opportunities for city's residents and visitors. [1] [2]
Brackenridge Recreation Complex is a park operated by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority. The park is a former state park in Texas then known as Lake Texana State Park and is located near Edna in Jackson County , halfway between Houston and Corpus Christi on Lake Texana .
Watauga Lake in Tennessee; The Watauga River in North Carolina and Tennessee; Ships. USS Watauga, a steam frigate planned for the United States Navy during the American Civil War that was never built; Other. The Watauga Association, a pre-revolutionary autonomous American government; The Watauga Democrat, a newspaper published in Boone, North ...
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is a United States national recreation area located about 30 miles (48 km) north of Amarillo, Texas, in the Texas Panhandle. Its main attraction is 10,000-acre (4,000 ha) Lake Meredith , a reservoir created by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River .
The company harvested the smaller trees between 1917 and 1920, but that could not keep the mill profitable and it ceased operation. [2] In October 1934, Civilian Conservation Corps Company 1803 set up camp in the area for project number F-4 to build Davy Crockett National Forest and Ratcliff Lake Recreation Area.
Nearly 3 miles below Watauga Dam, on the Horseshoe section of the Watauga River, is the TVA Wilbur Dam, which forms a much smaller but very deep reservoir known as Wilbur Lake. TVA releases approximately 130 cubic feet per second (3.7 m 3 /s) of discharged water back into the Watauga River during the summer months. [ 6 ]
Construction of Watauga Dam began in early 1942 but was curtailed later that year in favor of other World War II building efforts. Work on TVA Watauga Dam resumed in 1946, and finished at the end of 1948, impounding both the Watauga River and Elk River for the purposes of flood, hydropower generation and downstream navigation on the Tennessee River and Reservoir system.