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Onion Creek (Verdigris River Tributary)
Onion Creek may refer to: * Onion Creek, Texas, a census-designated place * Onion Creek (Texas), a small tributary stream of the Colorado River :* Onion Creek Bridge, the former name of the bridge at Moore's Crossing * Onion Creek School District An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion ... in Washington * Onion Creek Club, Golf course in Austin, Texas {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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Onion Creek, Texas
Onion Creek is a neighborhood in Austin. Onion Creek is also the name of a creek that starts in Hays County, Texas and empties into the Colorado River (Texas). Geography Onion Creek is located at (30.141145, -97.789188), 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Austin. In November 2013, AT&T announced that the Onion Creek neighborhood would become one of four Austin neighborhoods to get their new GigaPower high speed internet service. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.2 square miles (8.3 km2), all of it land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 2,116 people, 1,002 households, and 742 families living in the CDP. The population density was . There were 1,038 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 93.10% White, 1.18% African American, 0.28% Native American, 1.13% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 2.65% from other races, and 1.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race ...
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Onion Creek (Texas)
Onion Creek is a small tributary stream of the Colorado River in Texas. It begins southeast of Johnson City, Blanco County, Texas, and flows approximately eastward into the Colorado River, northwest of Garfield in Travis County, Texas. While areas surrounding the creek's origin in Blanco County are primarily rural, areas closer to its mouth in Travis County have more urban and industrial development. Passing near Dripping Springs, Driftwood, and Onion Creek, Onion Creek is the source of the waterfalls in McKinney Falls State Park. Onion Creek's watershed spans an area of . 2013 Flood On October 31, 2013 Onion Creek experienced historic levels of flooding, cresting at 40.15 ft, a level not seen since 1921. Over the course of 4h 9-10in of rain fell in the Onion Creek watershed. The flood had a flow rate of over 120,000 cubic feet per second, more than twice that of Niagara Falls. In the end, five people died and more than 500 homes were damaged by flood waters. As a res ...
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Moore's Crossing Historic District
Moore's Crossing Historic District is a community located in rural Travis County nine miles southeast of Austin, Texas near the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport. The location was used as a low-water crossing of Onion Creek as early as the 1840s but did not receive its current name until the early 1900s, when John B. Moore built a store in the area. Moore's Crossing was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1996 Description and significance The southeastern quadrant of what is now Travis County was the first part of the county Europeans settled after the Spanish (and later Mexican) government opened Texas lands to colonists in the 1820s. Watered by the Colorado River, the region's rich black land promised much greater agricultural potential than the rocky hills to the west. Its first residents were farmers who plowed fields and built modest homes along the rivers and creeks that ran through the area. Despite the designation and subsequent growth ...
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Onion Creek School District
An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion which was classified as a separate species until 2010. Its close relatives include garlic, scallion, leek, and chive. This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion (''Allium fistulosum''), the tree onion (''A.'' × ''proliferum''), and the Canada onion (''Allium canadense''). The name ''wild onion'' is applied to a number of ''Allium'' species, but ''A. cepa'' is exclusively known from cultivation. Its ancestral wild original form is not known, although escapes from cultivation have become established in some regions. The onion is most frequently a biennial or a perennial plant, but is usually treated as an annual and harvested in its fir ...
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