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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • An inlet of southeast Texas separated from the Gulf of Mexico by the Matagordo Peninsula, a narrow sand spit.

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  • His unfamiliarity with the coast, or night, or fog cheated him of his destination, and the colony was landed four hundred miles west of it, in a place called Matagorda Bay, in

    Heroes of the Middle West The French Mary Hartwell Catherwood 1874

  • That storm hit not only the area known as Matagorda Bay but struck a blow to the dreams of the port city of Indianola, the "Queen of the West".

    Blogger News Network 2008

  • The name of the mission, which appears in Spanish records also as La Bahía del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga, was a reference to its location on La Bahía del Espíritu Santo (the Bay of the Holy Spirit, now called Matagorda Bay and Lavaca Bay) and also honored Báltasar de Zúñiga, viceroy of New Spain.

    The Big Apple 2008

  • Friday, with landfall following around midnight between Matagorda Bay to the north and Baffin Bay to the south.

    Tropical Storm Don moves closer to Texas 2011

  • Friday, with landfall following around midnight between Matagorda Bay to the north and Baffin Bay to the south.

    Tropical Storm Don moves closer to Texas 2011

  • I will not forget the crowd at the end of the day on the docks at Key West as they applauded the sunset over the gulf or finding the cistern and railroad pilings at the former location of Indianola, Texas on Matagorda Bay.

    James Moore: A Requiem for the Gulf 2010

  • The tribe cut a bloody swath of violence across the coastal lowlands, looting, killing, and burning on their way to Matagorda Bay, and sweeping the entire country of horse stock as they went.12 They took captives, too, including a Mrs. Nancy Crosby, the granddaughter of Daniel Boone, and her baby.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • In the inland section from Matagorda Bay to Corpus Christi Bay, Pleistocene barrier island deposits occur.

    Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

  • It rises in northeastern Dawson County and flows southeastward for 600 mi before emptying into Matagorda Bay.

    Rivers of Texas 2008

  • Storm surge of 22 feet (Matagorda Bay) 18.5 feet (Port Lavaca), 14.5 feet (Port O‚ÄôConnor), 14.8 feet (Houston Ship Channel)

    NASA Watch: News: September 2005 Archives 2005

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