White Oak Bayou is one of the several waterways that give Houston, Texas, United States, its popular nickname, "The Bayou City." The Bayou originates northwest of FM 1960, near Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 290/Northwest Freeway, and meanders generally toward the southeast until it joins Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston.
Watershed
White Oak Bayou drains areas throughout the northwest portions of Harris County as well as the City of Jersey Village and portions of the City of Houston. Its watershed covers about 111 square miles (290km2) and includes three primary streams: White Oak Bayou, Little White Oak Bayou and Cole Creek. In addition, Vogel Creek and Brickhouse Gully are among the major tributaries in the watershed. In all, there are about 151 miles (243km) of open streams in the White Oak Bayou watershed, including the primary and tributary channels.
Wildlife habitat exists on much of the undeveloped tracts scattered throughout the watershed and has been preserved and/or created in several of the large regional stormwater detention basins constructed by the Harris County Flood Control District. However, only a little undisturbed wildlife habitat exists along the urban channels of White Oak Bayou and its tributaries.
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White Oak was named for a stand of white oak trees near the original town site.
History
White Oak was originally part of Versailles Township (one of the original townships of Allegheny County). It wasn't until March 21, 1948 that a petition requesting the formation of White Oak Borough was submitted to the County Court. On June 24, 1948, Judge Russell H. Adams signed the decree of incorporation of the new borough. The first borough building was located at 860 Maple Street inside the old Bowery School.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough has a total area of 6.7 square miles (17km2), of which 0.04 square miles (0.10km2) (0.45%) is water.
Emergency services
The borough maintains its own police department consisting of twelve full-time officers and eight patrol cars. Two volunteer fire departments serve different parts of the borough: White Oak No.1 VFC and Rainbow VFC. Emergency Medical Services are provided by White Oak EMS - a CAAS accredited basic and advanced life support service that includes a level-one wilderness search & rescue team.
White Oak Bayou flooding threatening neighborhoods
published: 08 Jul 2024
White Oak Bayou receding after water nearly reaches top of bank
Heavy rain poured into Houston on the 4th of July causing extreme flooding. Several bayous and creeks received a lot of water, but no overbanks flooding.
published: 04 Jul 2018
Drone video over White Oak Bayou in Houston
Drone video shows White Oak Bayou in Houston, Texas. By the end of 2020, more than 3,000 acres of green space along Houston's major bayous will connect via 150 miles of trails.
Learn more: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/greenways-project-connects-houstons-biggest-bayous-with-150-miles-of-trails/285-e2397a78-c791-48f4-9948-6d61b5ea1a48
published: 17 Feb 2020
High water in the White Oak Bayou Parkway area, Sunday 5/14 | Houston weather
Twitter user @dana_marlane shot this video of high water near downtown Houston on Sunday, May 14, 2023.
published: 14 May 2023
Flooding risk lowering for families along White Oak Bayou
The City of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District are partnering to construct a detention basin on the land that will interlock with other flood mitigation projects.
published: 16 May 2024
White Oak Bayou Trail closures due to construction project
published: 16 Jun 2021
WEB White Oak Bayou body 2
WEB White Oak Bayou body 2
published: 06 Apr 2018
Car ends up in White Oak Bayou floodwaters
No one knows how this happened, but a car ended up along the trail next to White Oak Bayou Wednesday morning just north of downtown.
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published: 19 May 2021
A look at White Oak Bayou ahead of Tropical Storm Nicholas | Raw video
Here's a look at White Oak Bayou right now from Reporter Jason Miles | Latest storm updates: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/tropical-update-gulf-of-mexico-texas-weather/285-c2ea3b7f-5c85-4c6e-a050-865cb28501f9
published: 13 Sep 2021
New flood alert system for White Oak Bayou can warn residents in real time
Although Hurricane Harvey’s waters have long since receded, it is only a matter of time before the next flooding event will strike the Bayou City. And when that storm comes, another of the area’s watersheds will have a flood alert system thanks to researchers from Rice University and funding from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Phil Bedient, the Herman and George R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Rice's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), and Jamie Padgett, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have developed a system to monitor White Oak Bayou, one of the major watersheds in the Houston metropolitan area. The bayou stretches from central to northwest Harris County. The new system mi...
Heavy rain poured into Houston on the 4th of July causing extreme flooding. Several bayous and creeks received a lot of water, but no overbanks flooding.
Heavy rain poured into Houston on the 4th of July causing extreme flooding. Several bayous and creeks received a lot of water, but no overbanks flooding.
Heavy rain poured into Houston on the 4th of July causing extreme flooding. Several bayous and creeks received a lot of water, but no overbanks flooding.
Drone video shows White Oak Bayou in Houston, Texas. By the end of 2020, more than 3,000 acres of green space along Houston's major bayous will connect via 150 ...
Drone video shows White Oak Bayou in Houston, Texas. By the end of 2020, more than 3,000 acres of green space along Houston's major bayous will connect via 150 miles of trails.
Learn more: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/greenways-project-connects-houstons-biggest-bayous-with-150-miles-of-trails/285-e2397a78-c791-48f4-9948-6d61b5ea1a48
Drone video shows White Oak Bayou in Houston, Texas. By the end of 2020, more than 3,000 acres of green space along Houston's major bayous will connect via 150 miles of trails.
Learn more: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/greenways-project-connects-houstons-biggest-bayous-with-150-miles-of-trails/285-e2397a78-c791-48f4-9948-6d61b5ea1a48
The City of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District are partnering to construct a detention basin on the land that will interlock with other flood ...
The City of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District are partnering to construct a detention basin on the land that will interlock with other flood mitigation projects.
The City of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District are partnering to construct a detention basin on the land that will interlock with other flood mitigation projects.
No one knows how this happened, but a car ended up along the trail next to White Oak Bayou Wednesday morning just north of downtown.
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No one knows how this happened, but a car ended up along the trail next to White Oak Bayou Wednesday morning just north of downtown.
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Here's a look at White Oak Bayou right now from Reporter Jason Miles | Latest storm updates: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/tropical-update-gul...
Here's a look at White Oak Bayou right now from Reporter Jason Miles | Latest storm updates: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/tropical-update-gulf-of-mexico-texas-weather/285-c2ea3b7f-5c85-4c6e-a050-865cb28501f9
Here's a look at White Oak Bayou right now from Reporter Jason Miles | Latest storm updates: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/tropical-update-gulf-of-mexico-texas-weather/285-c2ea3b7f-5c85-4c6e-a050-865cb28501f9
Although Hurricane Harvey’s waters have long since receded, it is only a matter of time before the next flooding event will strike the Bayou City. And when that...
Although Hurricane Harvey’s waters have long since receded, it is only a matter of time before the next flooding event will strike the Bayou City. And when that storm comes, another of the area’s watersheds will have a flood alert system thanks to researchers from Rice University and funding from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Phil Bedient, the Herman and George R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Rice's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), and Jamie Padgett, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have developed a system to monitor White Oak Bayou, one of the major watersheds in the Houston metropolitan area. The bayou stretches from central to northwest Harris County. The new system mirrors an existing one developed by SSPEED to monitor Brays Bayou and alert the Texas Medical Center of flooding.
The researchers used much of the technology from the Brays Bayou system to develop the White Oak system, which relies on real-time, radar-based rainfall estimates as rain is falling across a watershed. The system takes in new radar data every five minutes and generates a predictive flood map, which is updated every 15 minutes. Color coding indicates areas and travel routes likely to flood.
Although Hurricane Harvey’s waters have long since receded, it is only a matter of time before the next flooding event will strike the Bayou City. And when that storm comes, another of the area’s watersheds will have a flood alert system thanks to researchers from Rice University and funding from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Phil Bedient, the Herman and George R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Rice's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), and Jamie Padgett, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have developed a system to monitor White Oak Bayou, one of the major watersheds in the Houston metropolitan area. The bayou stretches from central to northwest Harris County. The new system mirrors an existing one developed by SSPEED to monitor Brays Bayou and alert the Texas Medical Center of flooding.
The researchers used much of the technology from the Brays Bayou system to develop the White Oak system, which relies on real-time, radar-based rainfall estimates as rain is falling across a watershed. The system takes in new radar data every five minutes and generates a predictive flood map, which is updated every 15 minutes. Color coding indicates areas and travel routes likely to flood.
Heavy rain poured into Houston on the 4th of July causing extreme flooding. Several bayous and creeks received a lot of water, but no overbanks flooding.
Drone video shows White Oak Bayou in Houston, Texas. By the end of 2020, more than 3,000 acres of green space along Houston's major bayous will connect via 150 miles of trails.
Learn more: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/greenways-project-connects-houstons-biggest-bayous-with-150-miles-of-trails/285-e2397a78-c791-48f4-9948-6d61b5ea1a48
The City of Houston and the Harris County Flood Control District are partnering to construct a detention basin on the land that will interlock with other flood mitigation projects.
No one knows how this happened, but a car ended up along the trail next to White Oak Bayou Wednesday morning just north of downtown.
Story: https://abc13.com/10661336/
Follow for more:
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Here's a look at White Oak Bayou right now from Reporter Jason Miles | Latest storm updates: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/hurricane/tropical-update-gulf-of-mexico-texas-weather/285-c2ea3b7f-5c85-4c6e-a050-865cb28501f9
Although Hurricane Harvey’s waters have long since receded, it is only a matter of time before the next flooding event will strike the Bayou City. And when that storm comes, another of the area’s watersheds will have a flood alert system thanks to researchers from Rice University and funding from Rice’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
Phil Bedient, the Herman and George R. Brown Professor of Civil Engineering and director of Rice's Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters Center (SSPEED), and Jamie Padgett, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, have developed a system to monitor White Oak Bayou, one of the major watersheds in the Houston metropolitan area. The bayou stretches from central to northwest Harris County. The new system mirrors an existing one developed by SSPEED to monitor Brays Bayou and alert the Texas Medical Center of flooding.
The researchers used much of the technology from the Brays Bayou system to develop the White Oak system, which relies on real-time, radar-based rainfall estimates as rain is falling across a watershed. The system takes in new radar data every five minutes and generates a predictive flood map, which is updated every 15 minutes. Color coding indicates areas and travel routes likely to flood.
White Oak Bayou is one of the several waterways that give Houston, Texas, United States, its popular nickname, "The Bayou City." The Bayou originates northwest of FM 1960, near Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 290/Northwest Freeway, and meanders generally toward the southeast until it joins Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston.
Watershed
White Oak Bayou drains areas throughout the northwest portions of Harris County as well as the City of Jersey Village and portions of the City of Houston. Its watershed covers about 111 square miles (290km2) and includes three primary streams: White Oak Bayou, Little White Oak Bayou and Cole Creek. In addition, Vogel Creek and Brickhouse Gully are among the major tributaries in the watershed. In all, there are about 151 miles (243km) of open streams in the White Oak Bayou watershed, including the primary and tributary channels.
Wildlife habitat exists on much of the undeveloped tracts scattered throughout the watershed and has been preserved and/or created in several of the large regional stormwater detention basins constructed by the Harris County Flood Control District. However, only a little undisturbed wildlife habitat exists along the urban channels of White Oak Bayou and its tributaries.
... collaboration, announcing last Fall the City of Houston will spend nearly $15.5 million to divert flow from TurkeyGully to White Oak Bayou and provide additional infrastructure improvements.
...LevelRoad, if they had fallen into White Oak Bayou. McIntyre's is located just a few blocks from White Oak Bayou, which flows into Buffalo Bayou and eventually flows into the Houston Ship Channel.
A grassroots coalition of local organizations and residents has launched the HollywoodTrailProject, a bold initiative aimed at creating a public greenway along LittleWhite Oak Bayou.
A woman's body was then found in White Oak Bayou near North MainStreet at 11.10am... A body was recovered from White Oak Bayou on Tuesday morning ... The White Oak Bayou is a 25-mile slow-moving river that connects with the Buffalo Bayou.
“With the addition of this mixed-use area to the south of the LittleWhite Oak Bayou, we are meeting demand for new rental, restaurants and retail among residents who are drawn to this neighborhood’s ...
“With the addition of this mixed-use area to the south of the LittleWhite Oak Bayou, we are meeting demand for new rental, restaurants and retail among residents who are drawn to this neighborhood’s ...
Every first Saturday of each month in Stude Park between the hours of 8 a.m ...Don’t be alarmed, they have help ... > ... Every first Saturday at 8 a.m ... The bike ride starts at Stude Park and follows any one of the hike and bike trails along White Oak Bayou ... .
The main feature was a bayou to the east later named White Oak Bayou ... A primary social center was the White Oak Schutzen Verein, where everything from annual shoots to masquerade balls were held. The one-room White Oak School No.
PhotoUsed for Illustration Purposes. TexasBorderBusiness...U.S. Sen ... Their bodies were left to rot by White Oak Bayou ... On June 17, 2024, the body of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray was found, nude from the waist down, submerged in another Houston bayou ... .
