Trinity River (Texas)

The Trinity River is a river in the state of Texas in the United States.

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Texas - United States

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It rises in extreme north Texas, only several miles south of the Red River. Its headwaters are separated from the Red River basin by the high bluffs on the south side of the Red River.

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The Trinity River was named after the Holy Trinity of the Bible. Despite its name it has four forks: The Clear Fork, the Elm Fork, the West Fork, and the East Fork, each of which is considered part of the Trinity. The West Fork flows eastward through the city of Fort Worth while the Clear Fork flows northeastward through Fort Worth; the two forks meet near downtown. The Elm Fork flows south from near Gainesville, Texas and east of the city of Denton. Those two rivers merge as they enter the city of Dallas and form the Trinity River proper. The East Fork begins near McKinney, Texas and joins the Trinity River just south east of Dallas.

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Holy Trinity - Bible - Fort Worth - Gainesville, Texas - Denton - Dallas - McKinney, Texas

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The Trinity then flows southeastward from Dallas across the farming regions and pine forests of eastern Texas. It flows into the Trinity Bay, an arm of Galveston Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico, east of the city of Houston.

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Dallas - Trinity Bay - Galveston Bay - Gulf of Mexico - Houston

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Plans for a shipping channel along the length of the Trinity River were scrapped, as they would have required extensive dredging to make the river navigable, though several overpasses were built at very high clearances in anticipation of the channel being built. There are, however, current plans being developed to turn the Trinity River flood zone in downtown Dallas into the nation's largest urban park http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040818-045135-8241r.htm. A map of the planned park system can be found here.

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