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Carpenters Bayou

Coordinates: 29°45′22″N 95°05′40″W / 29.75606°N 95.09438°W / 29.75606; -95.09438 (Carpenters Bayou)
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Carpenters Bayou
Carpenters Bayou at Harris County, Texas
Carpenters Bayou on Houston Ship Channel
Carpenters Bayou is located in Texas
Carpenters Bayou
Location within State of Texas
Carpenters Bayou is located in the United States
Carpenters Bayou
Carpenters Bayou (the United States)
Nickname(s)Houston Ship Channel
Location
CountryUnited States
U.S. StateTexas
CountyHarris County, Texas
CitiesChannelview, Houston
Physical characteristics
SourceSheldon, Texas
 • locationSheldon Lake
 • coordinates29°51′15″N 95°10′03″W / 29.8541131°N 95.1674320°W / 29.8541131; -95.1674320
MouthChannelview, Texas
 • location
Buffalo Bayou
 • coordinates
29°45′22″N 95°05′40″W / 29.75606°N 95.09438°W / 29.75606; -95.09438 (Carpenters Bayou)
Length44 mi (71 km)
Basin size25 sq mi (65 km2)
Width 
 • minimum125 ft (38 m)
 • average165 ft (50 m)
 • maximum430 ft (130 m)
Depth 
 • minimum2 ft (0.61 m)
 • average11 ft (3.4 m)
 • maximum15 ft (4.6 m)
Basin features
River systemSan Jacinto River
Landmarks
Population70,721 (2020 Census)[4]
Waterbodies
Inland ports
GNIS feature ID1372946

Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County (29°51′N 95°10′W / 29.850°N 95.167°W / 29.850; -95.167), Texas, USA.[5] The bayou waterway routes southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site (29°45′N 95°06′W / 29.750°N 95.100°W / 29.750; -95.100).[6]

History

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The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, a partner of William Harris as one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" families of Austin's Colony in what later became Texas.[7] Carpenter and Harris received a sitio[8] of land in present Harris County, Texas on August 16, 1824, which fronted on Carpenter's Bayou in southeastern Harris County, near San Felipe de Austin.[7] Carpenter was a blacksmith, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the year that Noah Smithwick bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.[7]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Lorenzo de Zavala - Houston ~ Marker Number: 10638". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1936.
  2. ^ "De Zavala #1 - Cemetery HR-C108". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission.
  3. ^ "Site of Lynch's Ferry - Harris County ~ Marker Number: 20043". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1969.
  4. ^ "Carpenters Bayou Watershed". HCFCD.org. Harris County Flood Control District.
  5. ^ Handbook of Texas Online, "CARPENTERS BAYOU," accessed May 15, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/rhc04.
  6. ^ Carpenters Bayou in Geonames.org (cc-by)
  7. ^ a b c Noah Smithwick: The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days, University of Texas Press, Austin, Tex., 1983, pp. 21, 23; and Texas State Historical Association: The New Handbook of Texas, Austin, Tex., 1996, Vol. 1, p. 983.
  8. ^ Chipman, Donald E. "Sitio". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
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  • "NOAA Nautical Chart 11325" [Houston Ship Channel - Carpenters Bayou to Houston; Buffalo Bayou]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.