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O. C. Fisher Reservoir (also known as O. C. Fisher Lake, formerly known as San Angelo Lake) is an artificial lake located west of the city of San Angelo, Texas.With the financial support of the Upper Colorado River Authority, construction on the dam to form the reservoir was begun by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1947 and the lake was officially impounded in 1952.
The Texas Legislature formed Irion County from Tom Green County in 1889. Sherwood became the county seat. [5] Oil was discovered in Irion County in 1928. [6] In 1936, Mertzon became the county seat. [7] In 2020 Irion was the slowest county to comply with the Supreme Court order, forbidding the ban on same-sex marriages.
Populated places in Tom Green County, Texas (3 C, 1 P) Protected areas of Tom Green County, Texas (5 P) Pages in category "Geography of Tom Green County, Texas"
Knickerbocker is an unincorporated community in southwestern Tom Green County, Texas, United States. It lies along Farm to Market Road 2335, southwest of the city of San Angelo, the county seat of Tom Green County. Its elevation is 2,051 feet (625 m). Although Knickerbocker is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 76939.
The Tom Green County Courthouse, at 100 W. Beauregard Ave. in San Angelo, Texas, is a Classical Revival courthouse with a monumental Corinthian column colonnades on two facades which was designed by architect Anton Korn and was built in 1928. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]
The Battle of Dove Creek was a small engagement during the American Civil War that took place January 8, 1865, along Dove Creek in what is now southwest Tom Green County, Texas. Texan soldiers under Confederate captains Henry Fossett and S.S. Totten, misunderstanding which tribe occupied a discovered camp, attacked a tribe of peaceful Kickapoo ...
Thomas "Tom" Green (June 8, 1814 – April 12, 1864) was an American soldier and lawyer, who took part in the Texan Revolution of 1835–36, serving under Sam Houston, who rewarded him with a land grant.
Pages in category "Transportation in Tom Green County, Texas" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .