The Toledo Bend Dam and Reservoir Project is located in Texas and Louisiana on the Sabine River and forms a portion of the boundary between the two states. The Reservoir is approximately 65 miles in length and inundates land in Newton, Sabine, Shelby, and Panola Counties, Texas, and Sabine and DeSoto Parishes, Louisiana. Toledo Bend Reservoir is the largest man-made body of water in the South and fifth largest in surface acres in the United States, with water normally covering an area of 185,000 acres and having a controlled storage capacity of 4,477,000 acre-feet.
Toledo Bend is managed on the Texas side of the reservoir by the Toledo Bend Division office near Burkeville, Texas.