The two states agreed to a land swap to ensure that a Dallas-area water district’s pump station lies wholly within Texas. Neither state gained in size from the small change.
A raw water pump station at Lake Texoma on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. The station was bisected by the state line between Texas and Oklahoma.Texas just altered its border with Oklahoma. Well, a small sliver of it, anyway. And, no, Texas didn’t become any bigger.
The state found that the pump station was within Texas borders when it was built in 1989. But a new boundary established by Texas and Oklahoma in 2000 — the vegetation line along the south bank of the Red River — meant that part of the station now sat in the state’s northern neighbor. The swapped land is controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for Lake Texoma. The lake serves as the primary water source for all of Sherman and Denison, two cities in North Texas, according to the North Texas water district.
After the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the Red River served as the boundary between the United States and Mexico, and, after the Texas Revolution, between the United States and Texas.
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