Cypress Creek (Texas)

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Cypress Creek
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Cypress Creek in the San Jacinto Watershed
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Location
Country United States
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Texas
  coordinates 29°57′00″N95°53′32″W / 29.9499462°N 95.8921752°W / 29.9499462; -95.8921752
Mouth  
  location
Spring Creek
  coordinates
30°01′58″N95°18′42″W / 30.0327195°N 95.3116015°W / 30.0327195; -95.3116015
Length49 mi (79 km)
Basin size San Jacinto River

Cypress Creek is a stream that flows from Snake Creek and Mound Creek in Waller County, Texas to its mouth at Spring Creek in Harris County, Texas. It is part of the Cypress Creek watershed, and flows into the west fork of the San Jacinto River watershed- eventually flowing to the Gulf of Mexico.

The banks of this creek were a settling location for German immigrants in the 1840s. The settlement was later named the city of Cypress, Texas.

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