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Housing Units (2000): 527
Land area (2000): 1.255412 sq. miles (3.251501 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.255412 sq. miles (3.251501 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53824
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.877309 N, 94.821571 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Old River-Winfree
Old River, TX
Old River
Wikipedia
Old River may refer to:
- Old River (Belize)
- Old River (Tasmania), Australia
In the United States:
- Old River (Clay County, Arkansas) a lake in Clay County, Arkansas
- Old River (Cross County, Arkansas) a lake in Cross County, Arkansas
- Old River (California)
- Old River (Florida)
- Old River (New Hampshire)
- Old River, California
- Old River-Winfree in Chambers and Liberty Counties, Texas
- Old River Control Structure, connecting the Red River to the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers
The Old River is a 3.1 mile long (4.9 km) stream located in southeastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Taylor River, the primary tributary of the Hampton River estuary connected to the Atlantic Ocean.
The river's entire course is within Hampton, New Hampshire. It rises north of the center of town, in a wetland, and flows west, past the Interstate 95/ NH 101 interchange at the Hampton tollbooths. The river continues southwest, passing through Car Barn Pond, and reaches the Taylor River upstream from Coffins Mill.
The Old River is a tidal distributary of the San Joaquin River that flows for about through the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California. The Old River was once the main channel of the San Joaquin until navigation and flood control projects in the late 19th and 20th century fixed the San Joaquin to its present course past Stockton. It diverges from the San Joaquin near Tracy, about upstream from Antioch, and first runs west towards Mountain House, then north to rejoin the San Joaquin above Antioch. The river is lined with levees that prevent flooding of the adjacent Delta islands, many of which lie below sea level. The Middle River runs east of and roughly parallel to Old River. False River diverges from Old River about a mile (1.6 km) above the Old River's mouth and runs westward to join the San Joaquin at a point closer to Antioch. Part of the Old River forms the boundary between San Joaquin County on the east and Contra Costa County to the west.
About halfway along its course the Old River passes by the Clifton Court Forebay, where water is pumped from the Delta to support California's two primary water supply systems, the Central Valley Project and State Water Project. Because both projects derive their sources from the Sacramento River further north, pumping results in a reverse flow in the Old River as water flowing through the Delta Cross Channel is drawn southward through the Delta and up the Old River. (Naturally, the Old River would have flowed in a northerly direction). During dry summers, this often results in saltwater intrusion from San Francisco Bay. The reverse flow also confuses migrating salmon in the San Joaquin River which may have contributed to the decline of the species in the 20th century. Since the 1960s, the California Department of Water Resources has maintained temporary barrier dams to control the flow of water, a system which has improved water quality and circulation. The Head of Old River barrier is routinely installed during spring at the point where the Old River diverges from the San Joaquin, in order to prevent outmigrating young salmon from entering the longer, winding Old River where they are less likely to survive the journey to the sea.
The Peripheral Canal project, proposed since the 1960s would have bypassed diverted water flows around the Delta and eliminated the reverse flow in the Old River. However, the canal was never built due to environmental concerns for the Delta region.
On the right bank, the Old River borders Berts Island, Union Island, Victoria Island, Woodward Island, Bacon Island, and Mandeville Island. On the left it borders Stewart Tract, Coney Island, Widdows Island, Byron Tract, Orwood Tract, Palm Tract, Holland Tract, Little Mandeville Island, Quimby Island, and Webb Tract. The Old River also skirts the Franks Tract State Recreation Area, a former Delta island that is now submerged and forms a lake.
The Old River ranges from deep and from wide.
The U.S. Geological Survey operates five stream gauges on the Old River. Measured at Bacon Island, the Old River had an average reverse flow of between 2006 and 2014.
Usage examples of "old river".
Along the old river road, street merchants sold fresh fish and oysters and mussels from tanks, and freshly steamed lobsters and spiny crabs, samphire and lotus roots and water chestnuts, bamboo and little red bananas and several kinds of kelp, milk from tethered goats, spices, pickled walnuts, fresh fruit and grass juice, ice, jewelry made of polished shells, black seed pearls, caged birds, bolts of brightly patterned cloth, sandals made from the worn rubber tread of steam wagon tires, cheap plastic toys, tape recordings of popular .
The dancing part may have a thousand reasons in legend, but it is perhaps because it is a very old river that meanders greatly, so much so that to travel on the river the fifteen hundred straightline miles to the delta from the lakes, you would actually travel over twenty four hundred miles.
My hunch had been correct: here was the old river which had once flowed in the bed, now dry above, and had been forced into this subterranean channel by the uplift of the coastline.
On one side I could view the entire city as it sloped from the plaza down to the old river-bank.
And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her weary head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.
But I said maybe we might think we was passing the foot of an island and coming into the same old river again.
But the Inn taught the old river a lesson, and after Passau it no longer pretended to ignore new arrivals.
The town's old river, unfortunately, went underground in this sector, absorbed into arterial pipes below the 23rd-century building boom that had domed the half of the landscape not occupied by dizzily soaring spires and preserved historic architecture.