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Oyster Creek (Texas)

Field	Value
name	Oyster Creek (Texas)
image	Missouri City TX FM 1092 at Oyster Creek.JPG
image_size	280px
image_caption	FM 1092 bridge over Oyster Creek in Missouri City
source1_location	Fort Bend County, Texas
mouth_location	Brazoria County, Texas
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
length_mi	52

Oyster Creek is a stream in Texas that rises at at a divergence from Dolly's Gully near Skinner Lane (Skinner Gate), north of Richmond in Fort Bend County. Likely Oyster Creek formerly rose at the mouth of Dolly's Gully on Jones Creek some 3500 feet to the SW prior to installation of control gates and a 350' channel from the (since removed) Second Lift pumping station by the Gulf Coast Water Authority, which utilizes the upper reaches of Oyster Creek to deliver municipal and irrigation water to various recipients in Fort Bend and Brazoria counties.

Oyster Creek is north and east of, and roughly parallel to, the Brazos River. It originally flowed southeast 52 miles to the Gulf of Mexico in Brazoria County. Portions of the stream no longer follow their natural course because in Missouri City the upper section has been partially channelized, ultimately connecting with the Brazos River via a short segment of Steep Bank Creek.

The lower section continues on its meandering path from about a mile southeast of Steep Bank Creek, draining into the Intracoastal Waterway north of Surfside Beach.

Gallery

File:Lochridge TX Oyster Creek.JPG|Oyster Creek at Lochridge near Rosharon File:Snipe TX Oyster Creek.jpg|Oyster Creek at the FM 290 bridge in Snipe

References

(September 30, 2020). "Jones Creek & Oyster Creek". Gulf Coast Water Authority.
""Feature Detail Report for: Oyster Creek"". USGS Geographic Names Information Service.
"USGS ''Sugar Land, Tex'' Quadrangle 1955".
"Watershed Map, Missouri City GIS System".
""Feature Detail Report for: Steep Bank Creek"". USGS Geographic Names Information Service.

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