Gibbons Creek Reservoir
Gibbons Creek Reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River basin, 20 miles east of College Station, Texas, United States. Initially impounded in 1981, the reservoir was built as a power plant cooling reservoir for the Gibbons Creek Steam Electric Station, generating electricity for the municipally-owned electric utilities of the cities of Bryan, Denton, Garland, and Greenville until 2018.
- Type: Reservoir
- Description: power plant cooling reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River
- Also known as: “Enenflua rezervujo Gibbons” and “Gibbons Creek Lake”
Gibbons Creek Reservoir
- Categories: body of water and basin
- Location: Grimes, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude
30.63245° or 30° 37′ 57″ north
Longitude
-96.06242° or 96° 3′ 45″ west
Elevation
243 feet (74 metres)
Open location code
8625JWJQ+X2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=basin
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoir
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to German—“Gibbons Creek Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gibbons Creek Reservoir”
- Esperanto: “rezervujo de rivereto Gibbons”
- Esperanto: “Rezervujo de rivereto Gibbons”
- French: “Gibbons Creek Reservoir”
- German: “Gibbons Creek-Stausee”
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