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Old 04-15-2019, 07:27 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Thanks for the insight, wondering though why do they call it Lake Austin / Uptown Lake when it comes down stream as Colorado River and leaves Austin as Colorado river? to me that looks more like a river than a lake...I guess its the same sort of thing as Lake Travis?

Never in 50 years heard it called Uptown Lake. When did that start? It's always been Lake Travis and Lake Austin and Town Lake/Ladybird lake, all parts of the Colorado River.
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Old 04-15-2019, 07:29 PM
 
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Never in 50 years heard it called Uptown Lake. When did that start? It's always been Lake Travis and Lake Austin and Town Lake/Ladybird lake, all parts of the Colorado River.
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Ok.

It’s not “the Colorado River” that section is upper town lake.

It’s not “UTA” - that’s in Arlington. UT is UT.

Those are just the buildings on campus. Downtown has always been downtown - it centered around the capitol.
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Old 04-15-2019, 07:37 PM
 
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It was mentioned here:
Right. Upper Town Lake - the upstream section of Town Lake (Uptown is in Dallas, now we'll really get stuff screwy)

Just west of Mopac is Redbud Island, which was created by the old dam there collapsing. That's about where Town Lake starts. While it's still a river, it's dammed at both ends, so technically a lake while being a river (clear as mud, right?)

So, in the local parlance, you'd call driving over the bridges "crossing the river", but the bodies of water are individual lakes.

It's an Austin thing - kind of like how 183 has 4 different names.

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Old 04-15-2019, 07:38 PM
 
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It was mentioned here:

Upper Town Lake is the upper part of Town Lake, not Uptown Lake. Whew, I thought they'd done it to me again!
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Old 04-16-2019, 12:23 AM
 
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I still say "south of the river" or "north of the river." So I'm describing the body of water as "the river." I don't just use that term when I'm driving.


I almost never call it Town Lake. But if it's Town Lake vs. Lady Bird Lake, then I go with Town Lake.


Otherwise, it's "the river" in almost every instance.


Born in Austin in the 80s. Great grandparents dating back to the 1800s on both sides were Austinites (gotta show my bona fides haha).
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Old 04-18-2019, 01:53 PM
 
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Not a perfect analogy but I think of it kinda like 2222, there's the official RM/UR 2222, however at any given point along 2222, there is a "local" name that can also be used if that's the area you're specifically referencing (e.g. Koenig vs Allandale).
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Old 04-18-2019, 06:32 PM
 
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Not a perfect analogy but I think of it kinda like 2222, there's the official RM/UR 2222, however at any given point along 2222, there is a "local" name that can also be used if that's the area you're specifically referencing (e.g. Koenig vs Allandale).

This, exactly, and it's a perfect analogy. 290 East becomes Koenig Lane becomes Allandale Road becomes Northland becomes 2222 becomes Bullick Hollow, because not that long ago it went through different communities and each community gave it a name and when the Austin Monster reached out and attempted to swallow them up (successfully in some cases) they kept the street name.
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Old 04-19-2019, 03:05 PM
 
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I know almost none of these names

I guess this kinda brings on another question.

FM / RM / UR all mean the same thing right? What is Texas reason for naming them that? Are they like county roads?
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Old 04-19-2019, 04:12 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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I know almost none of these names

I guess this kinda brings on another question.

FM / RM / UR all mean the same thing right? What is Texas reason for naming them that? Are they like county roads?

Give it time. Austin is the kind of place that takes a long while to really learn.



FM is a "Farm to Market" road, RM is a "ranch to market" road. Not sure about UR, don't think I've seen that.
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Old 04-19-2019, 05:32 PM
 
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Give it time. Austin is the kind of place that takes a long while to really learn.



FM is a "Farm to Market" road, RM is a "ranch to market" road. Not sure about UR, don't think I've seen that.
I think UR was supposed to be RR - or Ranch Road.
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