Cross Bayou

Cross Bayou is a 38.0-mile-long (61.2 km)[2] river in Texas and Louisiana. It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.

Cross Bayou
Cross Bayou and a raw water pump house as viewed from the Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationTexas
Mouth 
  location
Shreveport, Louisiana
Discharge 
  locationDixie, LA
  average2,659 cu/ft. per sec.[1]

It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It flows through 8-mile-long (13 km) Cross Lake on the outskirts of Shreveport, and joins the Red River in downtown Shreveport.

The latter portion is known as Twelve Mile Bayou, locally spelled Twelvemile Bayou.

Crossings

See also

References

  1. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/la/nwis/annual/?format=sites_selection_links&search_site_no=07348000&agency_cd=USGS&referred_module=sw
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed June 3, 2011
  • "An Analysis of Texas Waterways". Retrieved 2006-05-04.
  • U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cross Bayou
  • USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Texas (1974)


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