Carpenters Bayou

Carpenters Bayou
Carpenters Bayou at Harris County, Texas
Carpenters Bayou on Houston Ship Channel
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Nickname(s)	Houston Ship Channel
Location
Country	United States
U.S. State	Texas
County	Harris County, Texas
Cities	Channelview, Houston
Physical characteristics
Source	Sheldon, Texas
• location	Sheldon Lake
• coordinates	29.8541131°N 95.1674320°W / 29.8541131; -95.1674320
Mouth	Channelview, Texas
• location	Buffalo Bayou
• coordinates	29.75606°N 95.09438°W / 29.75606; -95.09438 (Carpenters Bayou)
Length	44 mi (71 km)
Basin size	25 sq mi (65 km^2)
Width
• minimum	125 ft (38 m)
• average	165 ft (50 m)
• maximum	430 ft (130 m)
Depth
• minimum	2 ft (0.61 m)
• average	11 ft (3.4 m)
• maximum	15 ft (4.6 m)
Basin features
River system	San Jacinto River
Landmarks	Lorenzo de Zavala[1][2] Lynch's Ferry[3] San Jacinto State Historic Site
Population	70,721 (2020 Census)[4]
Waterbodies	Galveston Bay Gulf of Mexico
Inland ports	Port of Galveston Port of Houston
GNIS feature ID	1372946

Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County (29°51′N 95°10′W), 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).^[6]

History

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

• List of rivers of Texas

References

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. 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.

External links

• "NOAA Nautical Chart 11325" [Houston Ship Channel - Carpenters Bayou to Houston; Buffalo Bayou]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.