Carpenters Bayou

29°51′15″N 95°10′03″W / 29.8541131°N 95.1674320°W / 29.8541131; -95.1674320 MouthChannelview, TexasBuffalo Bayou29°45′22″N 95°05′40″W / 29.75606°N 95.09438°W / 29.75606; -95.09438 (Carpenters Bayou)Length44 mi (71 km)Basin size25 sq mi (65 km²)Width  • minimum125 ft (38 m) • average165 ft (50 m) • maximum430 ft (130 m)Depth  • minimum2 ft (0.61 m) • average11 ft (3.4 m) • maximum15 ft (4.6 m)Basin featuresRiver systemSan Jacinto RiverLandmarksPopulation70,721 (2020 Census)^[4]WaterbodiesInland portsGNIS feature ID1372946

Carpenters Bayou rises at the south end of Sheldon Reservoir in southeastern Harris County (29°51′N 95°10′W / 29.850°N 95.167°W / 29.850; -95.167), Texas, USA.^[5] The bayou waterway routes southeast for about twelve miles until it joins Buffalo Bayou at the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site (29°45′N 95°06′W / 29.750°N 95.100°W / 29.750; -95.100).^[6]

The bayou's name commemorates David Carpenter, a partner of William Harris as one of Stephen F. Austin's "Old Three Hundred" families of Austin's Colony in what later became Texas.^[7] Carpenter and Harris received a sitio^[8] of land in present Harris County, Texas on August 16, 1824, which fronted on Carpenter's Bayou in southeastern Harris County, near San Felipe de Austin.^[7] Carpenter was a blacksmith, and a single man at the time of the grant. He may have died as early as 1828, the year that Noah Smithwick bought his blacksmith's outfit in San Felipe.^[7]

• List of rivers of Texas

• "NOAA Nautical Chart 11325" [Houston Ship Channel - Carpenters Bayou to Houston; Buffalo Bayou]. NOAA Office of Coast Survey. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.