§459d Padre Island National Seashore; Description of Land and Waters

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must set aside the described land and water as Padre Island National Seashore to protect the remaining undeveloped seashore for public recreation, benefit, and inspiration. The protected area is drawn by a series of points and lines. It begins at a point one statute mile north of North Bird Island on the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway. From there it goes east to a spot on Padre Island one statute mile west of the Gulf of Mexico’s mean high water line. It then follows the mean high water line southwest for about three and five-tenths statute miles, then east to the two-fathom line shown on National Ocean Survey chart 1286. The boundary follows that two-fathom line as shown on charts 1286, 1287, and 1288 to the Willacy–Cameron County line extended, then west along the county line to a point 1,500 feet west of the mean high water line as fixed by J. S. Boyles on the “Survey of Padre Island” maps (sections 9 and 10, dated August 7–11 and August 11, 13, and 14, 1941). From there it runs north parallel to the Boyles survey line, 1,500 feet west, to the centerline of the Port Mansfield Channel, west along that centerline to a point three statute miles west of the two-fathom line, north parallel to the two-fathom line to 27 degrees 20 minutes north latitude, west on that latitude to the east side of the Intracoastal Waterway, and then north along the Intracoastal Waterway’s east side (following channel markers in the Laguna Madre) back to the starting point.