Neches River
The Neches River begins in Van Zandt County west of Rhine Lake and flows for 416 miles through the piney woods of east Texas, defining the boundaries of 14 counties on its way to its mouth on Sabine Lake near the Rainbow Bridge.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Harrel Slough”, “Nachawi”, “Nachez River”, “Natchez River”, “Nueces River”, “Rio de los Tejas”, “Rio de Nechas”, “Rio de Nievas”, “Rio del Arcangel San Miguel”, “Rio Mexicano”, “Rio Neches”, “River Naches”, “Sabine River”, “Snow River”, and “Two Rivers”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Port Arthur-Orange Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Port Arthur-Orange Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Novasource, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Rainbow Bridge and Veterans Memorial Bridge are two bridges that cross the Neches River in Southeast Texas just upstream from Sabine Lake. It allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the river. Bridge City in Orange County is on the northeast bank.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Groves and Bridge City.
Groves
Town
Groves is a city in Jefferson County, Texas, United States. The population was 17,335 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Beaumont–Port Arthur Metropolitan Statistical Area. Groves is situated 4 miles west of Neches River.
Bridge City
Town
Bridge City is a city in Orange County, Texas, United States. It is 100 miles east of Houston, near the Gulf of Mexico. The population was 9,546 at the 2020 census. Bridge City is situated 4½ miles north of Neches River.
Neches River
- Categories: river, shipping channel, and body of water
- Location: Orange, Texas, United States, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Neches River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر نيتشيس”
- Asturian: “Ríu Neches”
- Belarusian: “Нечэс (рака)”
- Belarusian: “Нечэс”
- Bulgarian: “Нечес Ривър”
- Catalan: “Neches”
- Cebuano: “Neches River”
- Chinese: “内奇斯河”
- Czech: “Neches”
- Danish: “Neches River”
- Dutch: “Neches River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر نيتشيس”
- French: “Neches”
- German: “Neches River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Neches”
- Italian: “Neches”
- Japanese: “ナチェス川”
- Japanese: “ネチズ川”
- Lithuanian: “Nečesas”
- Malayalam: “നെച്ചസ് നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ნეჩესი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Neches”
- Norwegian: “Neches”
- Polish: “Neches”
- Portuguese: “Rio Neches”
- Russian: “Нечес”
- Slovenian: “Neches River”
- Slovenian: “Neches”
- Slovenian: “reka Neches”
- Spanish: “Rio Neches”
- Spanish: “Río Neches”
- Venetian: “Neches”
- Welsh: “Afon Neches”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Neches River”. Photo: Wilafa, CC BY-SA 4.0.