De Cordova Bend Dam

The De Cordova Bend Dam is a man-made dam on the Brazos River in Hood County, Texas, United States, controlled by the Brazos River Authority.

De Cordova Bend Dam forms the 8,300-acre (34 km2) Lake Granbury.

The dam is so named because of the clockwise almost-complete loop in the Brazos River named De Cordova Bend after Jacob De Cordova.

Construction was begun on the Cordova Bend Dam on December 15, 1966 by the H. B. Zachry Company.

The proposed construction of the De Cordova Bend Dam in the mid-1950s became the impetus for John Graves' book, Goodbye to a River.