Cedar Creek is a creek in Kaufman County,

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, and Henderson County in

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. It is a

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to the Trinity River. The creek's impoundment forms the reservoir named Cedar Creek Lake.

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Cedar Creek begins in northern Kaufman County, flows down into the Cedar Creek Reservoir just east of King's Creek, flows underneath SH 31 between Trinidad and

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. Its confluence with the Trinity River is south of

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