GRANITE SHOALS,
TEXAS. Granite Shoals is on Lake Lyndon B. Johnson seven miles west of Marble Falls in
southwestern Burnet County. It takes its name from the granite shoals that were evident on
the Colorado River before the construction of Wirtz Dam and Lake Granite Shoals (later
Lake Lyndon B. Johnsonqv). Granite Shoals was developed as a lake resort but became an
incorporated community in the 1960s. Its population doubled from 300 in the late 1960s to
634 in the early 1980s and again by 1990 to 1,378.
PARKS: Granite
Shoals has 18 parks, 16 are lakeside on Lake LBJ. See our PARKS
page for more area parks.
HISTORY:
"It takes its name from the granite shoals that were evident on the
Colorado River before the construction of Wirtz Dam and Lake Granite Shoals (later Lake
Lyndon B. Johnson). Granite Shoals was developed as a lake resort but became an
incorporated community in the 1960s. Its population doubled from 300 in the late 1960s to
634 in the early 1980s and again by 1990 to 1,378. By 2000 the population was 2,040."
CITY OF GRANITE SHOALS WEBSITE
MARBLE FALLS/LAKE LBJ CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LAKE LBJ
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