Cross Bayou
Cross Bayou and a raw water pump house as viewed from the Shreveport Waterworks Pumping Station
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationTexas
Mouth 
  location
Shreveport, Louisiana
Discharge 
  locationDixie, LA
  average2,659 cu/ft. per sec.[1]

Cross Bayou is a 38.0-mile-long (61.2 km)[2] river in Texas and Louisiana. It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.

It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana. It flows through 8-mile-long (13 km) Cross Lake on the outskirts of Shreveport, and joins the Red River in downtown Shreveport.

The latter portion is known as Twelve Mile Bayou, locally spelled Twelvemile Bayou.

Crossings

See also

References

  1. "USGS Surface Water data for Louisiana: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
  2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 3, 2011

32°31′11″N 93°44′47″W / 32.51960°N 93.74629°W / 32.51960; -93.74629



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