Lake Pat Cleburne

Cleburne built this lake as a municipal water supply, and the Handbook of Texas dates the work. Construction of the dam on the Nolan River began on August 9, 1963, and was finished in the summer of 1964. The reservoir, in the Brazos River basin four miles south of town, was first named the Cleburne Reservoir. It stores 25,600 acre-feet at its conservation level and drains 100 square miles above the dam. It is owned and run by the city, and it carries the Confederate general's name as the town does.

What the plaque says

Lake Pat Cleburne Named to honor famous Confederate general and leader of Texas troops. Built to supply city water needs after $3,200,000 bond issue approved Aug. 14, 1962. Lake covers 2,000 acres of land. Treatment plant has normal daily capacity of 3,000,000 gallons of water. Lake completed in Oct. 1964. (1967)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cleburne State Park — 8.4 mi
  A 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps park on the old Chisholm Trail crossing country, with a spring-fed lake, a hand-carved three-tiered spillway and a CCC bridge in Johnson County.
• Acton State Historic Site — 19 mi
  The smallest state historic site in Texas, a grave plot holding Elizabeth Crockett, widow of David Crockett, under a 1913 statue of a pioneer woman shading her eyes toward the west.
• Dinosaur Valley State Park — 24 mi
  Theropod and sauropod trackways of about 113 million years ago in the bed of the Paluxy River, a National Natural Landmark where R. T. Bird found the first distinct sauropod tracks in 1937.
• Granbury Courthouse Square — 24 mi
  A National Register square of limestone storefronts around W. C. Dodson's Second Empire courthouse, whose clock tower citizens saved after a 1968 tornado.

More markers nearby

• Site of Wardville — 3.2 mi
• The Texas World War II Home Front — 3.5 mi
• Johnson County — 3.8 mi
• City Wagon Yards — 4.3 mi