List of lakes in Texas
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The following is a list of lake
Lake
A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean and therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds. Lakes can be contrasted with rivers or streams,...

s in the state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

 in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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  • Lake Abilene
  • Addicks Reservoir
    Addicks Reservoir
    The Addicks Reservoir and Addicks Dam in conjunction with the Barker Reservoir prevent downstream flooding of Buffalo Bayou in the City of Houston...

  • Alan Henry Reservoir
  • Alvarado Park Lake
    Alvarado Park Lake
    Alvarado Park Lake is a reservoir in Johnson County, Texas southwest of Alvarado, Texas.The county-owned reservoir was built in 1966 by Jack P...

  • Amistad Reservoir
    Amistad Reservoir
    Amistad Reservoir is a reservoir on the Rio Grande at its confluence with the Devils River 12 miles northwest of Del Rio, Texas, USA. The lake is bounded by Val Verde County on the Texas side of the international border, and the state of Coahuila on the Mexican side of the border...

     (extends into Coahuila
    Coahuila
    Coahuila, formally Coahuila de Zaragoza , officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico...

    , Mexico
    Mexico
    The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

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  • Lake Amon G. Carter
  • Lake Anahuac
    Lake Anahuac
    Lake Anahuac is an artificial lake fed by the Trinity River, east of downtown Houston, Texas, USA in western Chambers County. The city of Anahuac lies on its eastern shores....

     (once known as Turtle Bay)
  • Aquilla Lake
    Aquilla Lake
    Aquilla Lake is an artificial lake in Hill County, Texas, USA. The dam was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is part of the overall flood control project in the Brazos River basin. The lake is located approximately north of Waco, Texas.The dam was built and is owned by the...

  • Lake Arlington
  • Lake Arrowhead
  • Lake Athens (formerly known as Flat Creek Reservoir)
  • Lake Austin
    Lake Austin
    Lake Austin is a reservoir on the Colorado River in Austin, Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1939 by the construction of Tom Miller Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority....

  • Averhoff Reservoir
    Averhoff Reservoir
    Averhoff Reservoir is a reservoir on the Nueces River 10 miles north of the town of Crystal City in Zavala County, Texas, USA. The reservoir was formed in 1948 by the construction of two dams across two channels of the Nueces River to provide for water conservation in Zavala and surrounding...


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  • Lake B. A. Steinhagen
  • Balmorhea Lake
    Balmorhea Lake
    Balmorhea Lake is a reservoir on Sandia Creek 2 miles southeast of downtown Balmorhea, Texas. Water from Toyah Creek, fed by the nearby San Solomon Springs, is also fed into the reservoir, as is excess water in the Phantom Lake Canal. The reservoir was built in 1917 by the construction of a dam...

  • Lake Bardwell
  • Lake Bastrop
    Lake Bastrop
    Lake Bastrop is a reservoir on Spicer Creek in the Colorado River basin 3 miles northeast of the town of Bastrop in central Bastrop County, Texas, USA. The reservoir was formed in 1964 by the construction of a dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority...

  • Baylor Creek Reservoir
  • Belton Lake
    Belton Lake
    Belton Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Leon River in the Brazos River basin, 5 miles northwest of Belton, Texas, USA. The lake extends into both Bell County and Coryell County. Belton Dam and the lake are both managed by the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of...

  • Benbrook Lake
    Benbrook Lake
    Benbrook Lake is a reservoir on the Clear Fork of the Trinity River in Tarrant County, Texas, USA. The lake is located approximately 10 miles southwest of the center of Fort Worth, where the Clear Fork and the West Fork of the Trinity River join. The lake is impounded by the Benbrook Dam. The...

  • Big Creek Reservoir
  • Big Lake
    Big Lake (Texas)
    Big Lake is an intermittent dry lake located one-mile south and southwest of the city of Big Lake in Reagan County, Texas.Covering approximately , the playa lies in a floodplain and is fed primarily by Big Lake Draw and a number of other, unnamed smaller draws. Scrub brush, mesquite, juniper,...

  • Lake Bob Sandlin
  • Bonham City Lake
  • Bonham State Park Lake
  • Brady Creek Reservoir
    Brady Creek Reservoir
    Brady Creek Reservoir is a reservoir on Brady Creek in McCulloch County, Texas in the United States. The lake is just west of downtown Brady, Texas. The dam and lake are managed by the City of Brady. The reservoir was officially impounded in 1963...

  • Brandy Branch Reservoir
  • Braunig Lake
  • Lake Brelsford
  • Lake Bridgeport (formerly known as Bridgeport Reservoir)
  • Lake Brownwood
  • Lake Bryan
    Lake Bryan
    Lake Bryan is a power plant cooling reservoir in Brazos County, 5 miles west of Bryan, Texas, USA. The dam and lake are managed by Bryan Texas Utilities which uses the reservoir as a cooling pond for the electrical generators in the Dansby Power Plant. The reservoir was officially impounded in...

  • Lake Bryson
  • Lake Buchanan
  • [Buffalo Creek Reservoir]]
  • Buffalo Springs Reservoir

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  • Caddo Lake
    Caddo Lake
    Caddo Lake is a lake and wetland located on the border between Texas and Louisiana, in northern Harrison County and southern Marion County in Texas and western Caddo Parish in Louisiana. The lake is named after the Southeastern culture of Native Americans called Caddoans or Caddo, who lived in...

     (extends into Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

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  • Calaveras Lake
    Calaveras Lake (Texas)
    Calaveras Lake is a reservoir on Calaveras Creek, located 20 miles southeast of downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The reservoir was formed in 1969 by the construction of a dam to provide a cooling pond for a complex of power plants, to supply additional electricity to the city of San Antonio...

  • Canyon Lake
    Canyon Lake (Texas)
    Canyon Lake is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. Canyon Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the Guadalupe River in Comal County by Canyon Dam, which is located about sixteen miles northwest of New Braunfels. The dam, lake,...

  • Lake Casa Blanca
    Lake Casa Blanca
    Lake Casa Blanca is a reservoir on the Chacon Creek, 5 miles northeast of downtown Laredo, Texas, United States. The reservoir was formed in 1951 by the construction of a dam to provide recreational opportunities for the residents of Webb County...

  • Cedar Creek Reservoir
    Cedar Creek Reservoir (Texas)
    Cedar Creek Reservoir is a reservoir located in Henderson and Kaufman Counties, Texas , 60 miles  southeast of Dallas. It is built on Cedar Creek, which flows into the Trinity River...

  • Champion Creek Reservoir
  • Lake Charlotte
  • Lake Cherokee
  • Lake Childress
  • Choke Canyon Reservoir
    Choke Canyon Reservoir
    Choke Canyon Reservoir is a reservoir in southern Texas, USA. The lake and the dam that creates it are managed by the City of Corpus Christi.- Geography :...

  • Lake Cisco
  • Lake Pat Cleburne
    Lake Pat Cleburne
    Lake Pat Cleburne is the municipal water reservoir for the city of Cleburne, Texas as well as a recreational lake for residents. It is formed by damming the Nolan River which continues below the lake's dam. The water is murky due to sediment. U.S...

  • Lake Clyde
  • Coffee Mill Lake
  • Coleto Creek Reservoir
    Coleto Creek Reservoir
    Coleto Creek Reservoir is a reservoir on Coleto Creek and Perdido Creek located in Fannin, Texas, 15 miles southwest of Victoria, Texas. The surface of the lake extends into Victoria and Goliad counties...

  • Lake Coleman
  • Lake Colorado City
  • Lake Conroe
    Lake Conroe
    Lake Conroe is a 21,000 acre lake in Montgomery County, Texas, United States. Even though it is named Lake Conroe, only a small portion of the lake is in Conroe, Texas. Most of the lake is in Montgomery, Texas and Willis, Texas. The lake lies on the West Fork of the San Jacinto River just west of...

  • Cooper Lake (see Jim Chapman Lake
    Jim Chapman Lake
    Jim Chapman Lake is a impoundment operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and is located east of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in the state of Texas, USA. The lake is fed by the South Sulphur River, a fork of the Sulphur River, and provides water supply storage for the North Texas Municipal...

    )
  • Lake Corpus Christi
    Lake Corpus Christi
    Lake Corpus Christi is a reservoir in coastal southern Texas. The lake was created in by the impounding of Wesley E. Seale Dam. The lake and the dam that creates it are managed by the City of Corpus Christi. Lake Corpus Christi was originally known as Lake Lovenskiold...

  • Lake Crook
  • Lake Cypress Springs

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  • Fairfield Lake
  • Falcon International Reservoir
    Falcon International Reservoir
    Falcon International Reservoir, commonly called Falcon Lake, is a reservoir on the Rio Grande 40 miles southeast of Laredo, Texas, USA, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata counties on the Texas side of the international border and the municipality and...

  • Fayette County Reservoir
    Fayette County Reservoir
    Fayette County Reservoir is a power station cooling reservoir on Cedar Creek in the Colorado River basin, 10 miles east of LaGrange, Texas. The reservoir was created in 1978 when a dam was built on the creek to provide a cooling pond for the Fayette Power Project which provides electrical...

  • Lake Findley
    Lake Findley
    Lake Findley, also known as Lake Alice is a reservoir on Chiltipin Creek about 1 mile north of the city of Alice, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1965 by the construction of a dam across the creek. The dam and lake are managed by the City of Alice...

  • Lake Fork
    Lake Fork
    Lake Fork Reservoir is one of the premier trophy bass fishing lakes in the world, and serves as a reservoir for Dallas and its suburbs.It holds 15 of the top 20 Texas State Record Largemouth Bass. It was impounded in 1980, and reached is normal pool surface elevation of 403.0 feet above mean sea...

  • Fort Parker State Park Lake
  • Fort Phantom Hill Lake
  • Lake Fryer (originally known as Wolf Creek Lake)

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  • Lake Georgetown
    Lake Georgetown
    Lake Georgetown is a reservoir on the north fork of the San Gabriel River in central Texas in the United States. Lake Georgetown is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the San Gabriel by the North San Gabriel Dam, which is located about three miles west of Georgetown, Texas. The...

     (formerly known as North Fork Lake, and Georgetown Dam)
  • Gibbons Creek Reservoir
    Gibbons Creek Reservoir
    Gibbons Creek Reservoir is a power plant cooling reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River basin, 20 miles east of College Station, Texas, USA. The dam and lake are managed by Texas Municipal Power Agency, who use the reservoir as a cooling pond for a power plant that generates electricity...

  • Lake Gilmer
    Lake Gilmer
    Lake Gilmer is four miles west of downtown Gilmer, Texas, in the United States. It is located at State Highway 852 .The lake opened on September 29, 2001. It is 1,010 acres in size and has another 1557 acres of land that is planned to be developed into hiking and nature trails....

  • Lake Gladewater
  • Lake Gonzales
    Lake Gonzales
    Lake Gonzales is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River 4 miles southeast of the town of Belmont in Gonzales County, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1931 by the construction of a dam to provide hydroelectric power to the area. Management of the dam and lake was assume by the Guadalupe-Blanco...

  • Lake Graham
  • Lake Granbury
    Lake Granbury
    Lake Granbury is a North Texas reservoir near Granbury, Texas. It was created in 1969 and is one of three lakes damming the Brazos River.Lake Granbury is contained by the De Cordova Bend Dam and is a long, narrow lake, encompassing by 103 miles of shoreline.The lake is controlled by the Brazos...

  • Granger Lake
    Granger Lake
    Granger Lake is a United States Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the San Gabriel River in central Texas in the United States. The lake is located near the towns of Granger, Texas and Taylor, Texas in Williamson County. The dam, lake, and all adjacent property are managed by the Fort Worth...

  • Grapevine Lake
    Grapevine Lake
    Grapevine Lake is a freshwater lake located in the north Texas area, approximately northwest of Dallas, Texas. It was impounded in 1952 by the US Army Corps of Engineers when they dammed Denton Creek. The lake's primary purposes are flood control and to act as a water reservoir, with a secondary...

  • Green Lake
    Green Lake (Texas)
    Green Lake is a natural tidal lake in Calhoun County, Texas, on the Guadalupe River flood basin, known for its greenish waters, from which its name derives. The lake is west of Port Lavaca and south of Victoria on the Gulf Coastal Plain, and although less than from the coast of San Antonio Bay,...

  • Greenbelt Reservoir

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  • Lake Halbert
  • Lake Hawkins
  • Lake Holbrook
    Lake Holbrook (Texas)
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  • Hords Creek Reservoir
  • Lake Houston
    Lake Houston
    Lake Houston is a reservoir on the west fork of the San Jacinto River, 15 miles northeast of downtown Houston, Texas, USA. The reservoir is the secondary municipal water supply for the city of Houston after Lake Livingston....

  • Houston County Lake
  • Hubbard Creek Lake

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  • Lake J. B. Thomas
  • Lake Jacksonville
  • Lake Jane
  • Jim Chapman Lake
    Jim Chapman Lake
    Jim Chapman Lake is a impoundment operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and is located east of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in the state of Texas, USA. The lake is fed by the South Sulphur River, a fork of the Sulphur River, and provides water supply storage for the North Texas Municipal...

  • Joe Pool Lake
    Joe Pool Lake
    Joe Pool Lake is a fresh water impoundment located in the southern part of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in North Texas . The lake encompasses parts of Tarrant, Dallas and Ellis counties. The lake measures with a conservation storage capacity of...


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  • Lady Bird Lake (formerly Town Lake)
  • Lake La Joya
  • Lake Creek Lake
  • Lake Fork Reservoir
  • Lake Lavon
    Lake Lavon
    Lake Lavon is a reservoir located in North Texas on the East Fork of the Trinity River in Collin County near Wylie. It is off of State Highway 78. Lake Lavon's dominant fish species are the largemouth bass, white bass, blue catfish, and crappie....

  • Lake Leon (Eastland County, Texas)
  • Lake Leon (Pecos County, Texas)
  • Lewisville Lake
    Lewisville Lake
    Lewisville Lake is a reservoir located in North Texas on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville. The lake is primarily used recreationally for boating and watercraft, however, it was built for flood control purposes and to serve as a water source for Dallas and its...

  • Lake Limestone
    Lake Limestone
    Lake Limestone is a ) lake near Thornton, Texas . It lies southeast of Groesbeck, Texas on Texas FM 3371 in Leon, Robertson and Limestone Counties.The lake's water is slightly alkaline, moderately clear, with a maximum of deep...

  • Lake Livingston
    Lake Livingston
    Lake Livingston is a reservoir located in the East Texas Piney Woods. Lake Livingston was built, and is owned and operated, by the Trinity River Authority of Texas under contract with the City of Houston for water supply purposes. The lake is the largest lake constructed for water supply purposes...

  • Lone Star Lake
  • Lost Creek Reservoir
  • Lake Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Lake O' the Pines
    Lake O' the Pines
    Lake O’ the Pines is a reservoir on Big Cypress Bayou, also known as Big Cypress Creek, chiefly in Marion County, Texas, USA. The reservoir also occupies a small part of Upshur and Morris Counties...


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  • Mackenzie Reservoir
  • Lake Marble Falls
    Lake Marble Falls
    Lake Marble Falls is a reservoir on the Colorado River in the Texas Hill Country in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1951 by the construction of Max Starcke Dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. Originally named Marble Falls Dam, the dam was renamed in 1962 for Max Starcke, the...

  • Lake Marvin
  • Lake McClellan (McClellan Reservoir)
  • Lake McQueeney
    Lake McQueeney
    Lake McQueeney is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River located west of the town of Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas, USA. The reservoir was formed in 1928 by the construction of a dam to provide hydroelectric power to the area. Management of the dam and lake was assumed by the Guadalupe-Blanco...

  • Lake McSpadden
  • Meadow Lake
    Meadow Lake (Texas)
    Meadow Lake is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River south of the town of Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1931 by the construction of a dam to provide hydroelectric power to the area. Management of the dam and lake was assumed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority...

  • Medina Lake
    Medina Lake
    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...

  • Lake Meredith
    Lake Meredith
    Lake Meredith is a reservoir formed by Sanford Dam on the Canadian River at Sanford, Texas. It is located about northeast of Amarillo, Texas in the Texas Panhandle. It is a major source of drinking water for Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, located about to the south along with many other towns in...

  • Lake Mexia
  • Millers Creek Reservoir
  • Lake Mineral Wells
  • Mitchell Lake
    Mitchell Lake
    Mitchell Lake is a small lake in the southern part of San Antonio that encompasses approximately within its city limits, in southern Bexar County. It was used as a waste management center for the city but has since fallen under SAWS control. A redevelopment effort has started on the lake with the...

  • Lake Monticello
    Lake Monticello
    Lake Monticello may refer to:*Lake Monticello, Virginia, a community and lake in Virginia*Lake Monticello , a lake in Arkansas*Lake Monticello , a lake in Texas*Monticello Lake, in Utah*Monticello Reservoir, in South Carolina...

  • Moss Lake
    Moss Lake
    Moss Lake is the southernmost lake in Paternoster Valley on Signy Island. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee because a luxuriant stand of moss covers the deeper part of the lake....

  • Mountain Creek Lake
    Mountain Creek Lake
    Mountain Creek Lake is a reservoir located southwest of downtown Dallas, Texas in the Mountain Creek area of the city. It is located south of SH 180, west of Spur 408, north of I-20, and east of FM 1382. The defunct Naval Air Station Dallas is located on the northwestern shore of the lake...

  • Mud Lake
    Mud Lake (Texas)
    There are over a dozen lakes named Mud Lake within the U.S. state of Texas.* Mud Lake, Anderson County, Texas. * Mud Lake, Bowie County, Texas. * Mud Lake, Calhoun County, Texas. * Mud Lake, Chambers County, Texas....

  • Murphy Lake
    Murphy Lake (Anderson County, Texas)
    Murphy Lake is a reservoir in Anderson County, Texas, United States. Murphy Lake lies at an elevation of 420 feet ....

    , Anderson County

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  • Lake Nacogdoches
  • Lake Nasworthy
    Lake Nasworthy
    Lake Nasworthy is a small municipal lake located in San Angelo, Texas. The lake is named for John R. Nasworthy who sold the land the lake is currently located on to the city...

  • Navarro Mills Lake
  • Negrohead Lake
  • New Ballinger Lake
  • Lake Nocona
  • North Lake
    North Lake
    North Lake may refer to:Lakes:*North Lake , Inyo County, California*North Lake , Goodhue County, Minnesota*North Lake , Martin County, Minnesota*North Lake...


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  • Lake Palestine
    Lake Palestine
    Lake Palestine is a freshwater lake in Texas. Its shoreline spans approx 136 miles. There are numerous public boat launches found around its perimeter. - Sources :...

  • Palo Duro Reservoir
  • Lake Palo Pinto
  • Lake Pat Cleburne
    Lake Pat Cleburne
    Lake Pat Cleburne is the municipal water reservoir for the city of Cleburne, Texas as well as a recreational lake for residents. It is formed by damming the Nolan River which continues below the lake's dam. The water is murky due to sediment. U.S...

  • Pat Mayse Lake
    Pat Mayse lake
    Pat Mayse Lake is a reservoir in the Prairies and Lakes region of Texas, United States. It is in Lamar County near the towns of Chicota and Powderly. Paris, Texas is the nearest major city....

  • Lake Pauline
  • Lake Pflugerville
    Lake Pflugerville
    Lake Pflugerville is a reservoir in Pflugerville, Texas in the United States. Construction of the 180-acre reservoir began in 2005 and was completed in 2006. Pumps are used to flow water through a 16-mile pipeline to the reservoir from the lower Colorado River. Its main purpose is to provide water...

  • Lake Pinkston
  • Lake Placid
    Lake Placid (Texas)
    Lake Placid is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River one half mile southwest of the town of Seguin in Guadalupe County, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1928 by the construction of a dam on the river. Management of the dam and lake was assumed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority on May 1, 1963...

  • Lake Plainview
  • Possum Kingdom Lake
    Possum Kingdom Lake
    Possum Kingdom Lake , is a reservoir on the Brazos River located primarily in Palo Pinto County Texas. It was the first water supply reservoir constructed in the Brazos River basin. The lake has an area of approximately with of shoreline...

     (Possum Kingdom Reservoir)
  • Proctor Lake
    Proctor Lake
    Proctor Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir along the Leon River located in Comanche County in the U.S. state of Texas. Around 3 miles west of Proctor, Texas, USA. Proctor Lake Dam and the reservoir are managed by the Fort Worth District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

  • Purtis Creek State Park Lake

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  • Lake Randell
  • Lake Raven
  • Lake Ray Hubbard
    Lake Ray Hubbard
    Lake Ray Hubbard, formerly Forney Lake, is a reservoir located in Dallas, Texas in the counties of Dallas, Kaufman, Collin, and Rockwall County, Texas, just north of Forney, Texas, built on the East Fork Trinity River and impounded by the Rockwall-Forney Dam.It measures 22,745 acres in size with...

  • Lake Ray Roberts
    Lake Ray Roberts
    Lake Ray Roberts is a reservoir located north of Denton, Texas, between the cities of Pilot Point, Texas and Sanger, Texas.. It was named after Ray Roberts in 1980....

  • Red Bluff Reservoir
    Red Bluff Reservoir
    Red Bluff Reservoir is a reservoir on the Pecos River 40 miles north of Pecos, Texas, USA. The reservoir extends into Loving and Reeves counties in Texas, and Eddy County in New Mexico. The northern shoreline of the reservoir is the lowest point in the state of New Mexico...

  • Richland-Chambers Reservoir
    Richland-Chambers Reservoir
    Richland-Chambers Reservoir is the third largest inland reservoir by surface area and the 8th largest reservoir by water volume in Texas formed by the impoundment of Richland Creek and Chambers Creek east-southeast of the town of Corsicana and south of Kerens, in Navarro County and Freestone...

  • Rucker Pond
    Rucker Pond
    Rucker Pond is a reservoir within the LBJ National Grasslands. The pond is located in North Texas in Wise County near Decatur. It is off County Road 2650. Among Rucker Pond's fish species are largemouth bass....


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  • Sabine Lake
    Sabine Lake
    200px | thumb | Sabine lake as seen from outer space.Sabine Lake is a salt water estuary on the Texas-Louisiana border. The lake, some long and wide, is formed by the confluence of the Neches River and Sabine River. Through its tidal outlet long, Sabine Pass, Sabine Lake drains some of Texas...

     (extends into Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

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  • Sam Rayburn Reservoir
    Sam Rayburn Reservoir
    Sam Rayburn Reservoir is a reservoir in the United States located in Southeast Texas, north of Beaumont. The reservoir is fed by the Angelina River, the major tributary of the Neches River. The capacity of the reservoir is , and is the largest lake wholly located within the state of Texas...

  • Lake Scarborough
  • Sheldon Reservoir
  • Smithers Lake
    Smithers Lake
    Smithers Lake is a lake in Fort Bend County, Texas.It is located ten miles southeast of Richmond. It is near the Brazos River.The project is owned and operated by NRG Energy as the cooling-water supply for a steam-electric generating station, W. A. Parish Electric Generating Station. It was...

  • Somerville Lake
    Somerville Lake
    Somerville Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on Yegua Creek in the Brazos River basin, 10 miles northwest of Brenham, Texas, USA. The town of Somerville in Burleson County is adjacent to the reservoir. The lake extends into portions of Burleson County, Washington County, and Lee...

  • Squaw Creek Reservoir
    Squaw Creek Reservoir
    Squaw Creek Reservoir is an 3,275 acre impoundment located between Glen Rose, Texas and Granbury, Texas. The primary purpose is cooling for Comanche Peak Nuclear Generating Station...

  • Lake Stamford
  • Stillhouse Hollow Lake
    Stillhouse Hollow Lake
    Stillhouse Hollow Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the Lampasas River in the Brazos River basin, 5 miles southwest of Belton, Texas, USA. The unincorporated town of Stillhouse Hollow in Bell County is adjacent to the reservoir, as are portions of Salado, a small town south of...

  • Lake Striker
  • Sulphur Springs Lake
  • Lake Sweetwater

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  • Lake Tampacuas
  • Lake Tanglewood
  • Lake Tawakoni
    Lake Tawakoni
    Lake Tawakoni is a reservoir located approximately 53 miles east of Dallas, Texas, southeast of Greenville, Texas, and 21 miles northeast of Wills Point, Texas. It lies within three Texas counties, Hunt, Rains, and Van Zandt. It is used for water supply and recreation.The reservoir was...

  • Lake Texana
    Lake Texana
    Lake Texana is a reservoir on the Navidad River, 8 miles east of Edna, in Jackson County, Texas. The reservoir is formed by the construction of Palmetto Bend Dam, begun in 1968 and completed in 1979. The dam and lake are managed by the Lavaca-Navidad River Authority, and supply drinking water to...

  • Texas Highland Lakes
    Texas Highland Lakes
    The Texas Highland Lakes is a chain of seven reservoirs in Central Texas formed by several dams on the Colorado River. This portion of the river winds southeast from its headwaters near the border of Texas and New Mexico to Matagorda Bay and the Gulf of Mexico...

  • Lake Texoma
    Lake Texoma
    Lake Texoma is one of the largest reservoirs in the United States, the 12th largest Corps of Engineers lake, and the largest in USACE Tulsa District....

     (extends into Oklahoma
    Oklahoma
    Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

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  • Timpson Reservoir
  • Toledo Bend Reservoir
    Toledo Bend Reservoir
    Toledo Bend Reservoir is a reservoir on the Sabine River between Texas and Louisiana. The lake has an area of 185,000 acres , the largest man-made body of water in Texas, the largest in the South, and the fifth largest in the United States. The dam is capable of generating 92 megawatts of...

     (extends into Louisiana
    Louisiana
    Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

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  • Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir
  • Lake Travis
    Lake Travis
    Lake Travis is a reservoir on the Colorado River in central Texas in the United States. The reservoir was formed in 1942 by the construction of Mansfield Dam on the western edge of Austin, Texas by the Lower Colorado River Authority...

  • Twin Buttes Reservoir
    Twin Buttes Reservoir
    Twin Buttes Reservoir is an artificial lake located about southwest of the town of San Angelo, Texas and immediately upstream from Lake Nasworthy. With the financial support of the Upper Colorado River Authority, construction on Twin Buttes Dam to form the reservoir was completed in 1963...

  • Lake Tyler
  • Lake Tyler East

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  • Lake Waco
    Lake Waco
    Lake Waco is a reservoir located within the city limits of Waco, in McLennan County, Texas, which serves as the western border for the city of Waco. The dam is located on the Bosque River. The lake has of water and is currently run by the Army Corps of Engineers. Lake Waco was raised about 8...

  • Lake Walter E. Long
    Lake Walter E. Long
    Lake Walter E. Long is a power plant cooling reservoir on Decker Creek in Austin, Texas, USA. The reservoir was officially impounded in 1967 and serves to provide water for turbines used in the production of electricity from petroleum-based fuels. The dam and the lake are managed by the City of...

  • Lake Waxahachie
  • Lake Weatherford
  • Lake Welsh
  • White River Reservoir
  • White Rock Lake
    White Rock Lake
    White Rock Lake is a reservoir located in east Dallas, Texas . The lake was formed by damming White Rock Creek, which today widens into the lake before continuing south out of the spillway and emptying into the Trinity River...

  • Lake Whitney
    Lake Whitney (Texas)
    Lake Whitney is a flood control reservoir on the main stem of the Brazos River in Texas. It is located on River Mile Marker 442 and controls drainage for of Texas and parts of New Mexico. The reservoir encompasses a surface area of more than 23,500 acres and of shoreline. The area consists of...

  • Wichita Reservoir
  • Lake Winnsboro
  • Lake Wood
    Lake Wood
    Lake Wood is a reservoir on the Guadalupe River 4 miles west of the town of Gonzales in Gonzales County, Texas. The reservoir was formed in 1931 by the construction of a dam to provide hydroelectric power to the area. Management of the dam and lake was assumed by the Guadalupe-Blanco River...

  • Lake Worth
    Lake Worth (Texas)
    Lake Worth is located on the West Fork of the Trinity River. It is entirely inside the Fort Worth, Texas city limits.Lake Worth is a reservoir in Texas. It was built in 1914 as a reservoir and for recreation. The lake is controlled by the City of Fort Worth Lake Worth Management Office. The lake...

  • Wright Patman Lake
    Wright Patman Lake
    Wright Patman Lake is a reservoir in northeast Texas in the United States. The lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir formed on the Sulphur River in Bowie and Cass counties by Wright Patman Dam. The reservoir provides flood control and water conservation for the communities downstream...


See also


External

Texas Parks and Wildlife List of Texas Lakes


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