Editing Port Mansfield, Texas (section)

==Geography==
Port Mansfield is located at {{coord|26|33|20|N|97|25|52|W|type:city}} (26.555453, -97.431051).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of 5.7&nbsp;square miles (14.8&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which 5.2&nbsp;square miles (13.5&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>)  is land and 0.5&nbsp;square mile (1.3&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>)  (8.76%) is water. A navigational channel connects Port Mansfield to the [[Intracoastal Waterway]], and to the [[Gulf of Mexico]], cutting through [[Padre Island]] via the Port Mansfield Channel.

The cut through South Padre Island had shoaled considerably in the early 2000s, and by 2008 only shallow draft boats could safely enter at the Mansfield cut. The channel was dredged in the winter months of 2009-2010 by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers]], using Federal relief money following hurricanes [[Hurricane Rita|Rita]] and [[Hurricane Dolly|Dolly]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.caller.com/news/2008/aug/28/dredging-at-port-mansfield-to-begin/ | title = Dredging at Port Mansfield to begin | accessdate = 2010-05-30 | work = Corpus Christi Caller-Times}}</ref> The channel was dredged in the spring of 2021 and is now{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}<!-- when? needs a source.  Else the statement looks to merely be about the outcome in ~2010 --> 16–20 feet deep, with all the dredge tailings making a beach on the north side of the jetty.