Davy Crockett Lake is a impounded body of water in the
Caddo National Grassland
Caddo National Grassland is a national grassland in the southern Great Plains, consisting of two separate sections located in northeastern and southeastern Fannin County, Texas, United States. It is a protected area that was purchased in the 1 ...
on Dixon and Sandy creeks. It is located on
FM 409, northeast of
Bonham in
Fannin County in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Texas
Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...
. The lake has two geographical fingers, known as Crockett East and Crockett West. It was developed in 1935 under the
National Industry Recovery Act
The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (NIRA) was a US labor law and consumer law passed by the 73rd US Congress to authorize the president to regulate industry for fair wages and prices that would stimulate economic recovery. It also e ...
. It is also known as Lake Crockett. Stocked fish include
largemouth bass
The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, bu ...
,
channel catfish,
crappie and
bluegill.
References
Reservoirs in Texas
Davy Crockett
Bodies of water of Fannin County, Texas
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