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The Medina River was named after Pedro de Medina, a Spanish cartographer, by Alonso de León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, New Spain in 1689. It once served as the official boundary between Texas and Coahuila [2] with the San Antonio River being considered its tributary.
Medina Lake is a reservoir on the Medina River in the Texas Hill Country of the United States. It is operated by the Bexar/Medina/Atascosa County Agricultural District. Medina Dam was completed in 1913 in a privately financed project, creating the lake to supply irrigation water for local agricultural use.
Map of the Walhonding watershed showing Killbuck Creek A bridge over the creek near its headwaters west of Creston. Killbuck Creek is a tributary of the Walhonding River, [1] 81.7 mi (131.5 km) long, [2] in north-central Ohio in the United States. Via the Walhonding, Muskingum and Ohio Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi ...
Medina (/ m ə ˈ d aɪ n ə / ⓘ mə-DYNE-ə) is a city in and the county seat of Medina County, Ohio, United States. The population was 26,094 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] It lies about 33 miles (53 km) south of Cleveland and 23 miles (37 km) west of Akron within the Cleveland metropolitan area .
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 ).
Completed in 1912, Medina Dam was hailed as the largest in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States. Limestone boulders from a nearby quarry added bulk to the massive concrete structure. Four miles downstream, a small diversion dam conducted water into a system of irrigation canals. Gravitational force delivered the water to fields.
Medina County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 50,748. [1] Its county seat is Hondo. [2] The county is named for the Medina River.
Medina County (/ m ə ˈ d aɪ n ə / ⓘ) is a county located in the northeastern region in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 182,470. [2] Its county seat is Medina, and its largest city is Brunswick. [3] The county was created in 1812 and later organized in 1818. [4] It is named for Medina, Saudi Arabia. [5]