Texas Gazetteer
Brazos River is a physical feature (stream) in Brazoria County. The primary coordinates for Brazos River places it within the TX 77541 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Brazos River |
| Category: | Texas physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Stream |
| Description: | The longest river in Texas; heads at the confluence of Salt Fork Brazos River and Double Mountain Fork, near the eastern boundary of Stonewall County. Flows 840 miles across Texas to its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, 2 miles south of Freeport in Brazoria County (The Handbook of Texas). Brazo means arm in Mexico, so figuratively speaking a brazo in refering to a stream means ab arn if a river. Lopez, Barry, and Gwartney, Debra (eds.), 2006, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape: Trinity University Press, San Antonio, TX, pg 49. |
| History: | "The name of the stream is derived from Los Brazos de Dios, ""the arms of God.""" |
| County: | Brazoria County |
| Latitude: | 28.8758063 |
| Longitude: | -95.3782747 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Brazos River: Brazos River.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Brazos River does not include property ownership information.
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Freeport, TX
(5.5 miles NNE) Quintana, TX (5.8 miles NE) Surfside Beach, TX (7.2 miles NE) Jones Creek, TX (8 miles NW) Oyster Creek, TX (9.3 miles NNE) |
Clute, TX
(10.3 miles N) Lake Jackson, TX (11.4 miles NNW) Richwood, TX (12.6 miles N) Brazoria, TX (16.4 miles NW) Sargent, TX (17.6 miles W) |
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Bryan Beach, TX
(< 0.1 mile) Quintana Beach, TX (4.9 miles NE) Midway, TX (6 miles NNE) Velasco, TX (6.1 miles N) Gulf Park, TX (6.3 miles NNW) |
Brazosport, TX
(6.3 miles NE) Surfside, TX (6.7 miles NE) Velasco Heights, TX (7.4 miles N) Oakland, TX (9 miles NNW) Hoskins, TX (9.3 miles N) |
