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Guadalupe County

Cadastral map of Guadalupe County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, blocks of land, cities, towns, and railroads. No scale indicated.
Date: March 23, 1854
Creator: Willke, H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colton's Mexico

This map shows the country of Mexico and the surrounding areas. Each state is labeled and shaded using various colors. There is an inset in the lower left corner labeled "Territory and Isthmus of Tehuantepec." Major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). Scale [ca 1:8,389,740]. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.
Date: 1854
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

Railway guide for Illinois shewing all the stations with their respective distances by shortest route from Chicago.

Map shows existing and under-construction railroad lines, "Military Tract" road, and settlements along railway lines. Includes notes, distances along rail lines, and population statistics for Chicago. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Miller & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Reconnaissance of the western coast of the United States from San Francisco to Umpquah River.

Map shows Pacific Coast from the Umpquah River in Oregon to San Francisco, California. Includes text: sailing directions, tides, and remarks. Insets: Cape Arago, Cape Blanco, Rogue's [sic] River, Mack's Arch and Reef, Point St. George [and] Crescent City, Red Bluff, Humboldt Bay, View of Cape Mendocino, Trinidad Head and City, Mendocino City Cove, Pt. Arena, Pt. Reyes, Entrance to San Francisco Bay [Pt. Bonita, Outer Telegraph Station, Pt. Lobos]. Scale [1:1,200,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: United States Coast Survey.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colton's Mexico.

Map shows cities and towns, Mexican states; New Mexico north of Arizona; proposed railroad and canal across Isthmus of Tehauntepec. Includes notes. Inset: "Territory and Isthmus of Tehuantepec." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:8,400,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893
System: The Portal to Texas History

United States, North America.

Map shows states and western territories of the continental United States with unusual boundary lines; "Minnisota" extending to the Missouri River, Nebraska [territory] extending to Oregon Territory, Indian Territory extending north to the Kansas River, New Mexico inclusive of [modern-day] Arizona, Utah inclusive of [modern-day] Nevada, El Paso west of the Rio Grande del Norte, and Mexico extending north to the Gila River. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: [1854..1861]
Creator: Swanston, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Conneaut Harbor Ohio

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Conneaut Harbor, Ohio roads, wooded areas, marshland, property lines, building locations, and previous survey lines. Includes legend to construction along harbor entrance. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:4,800].
Date: 1854
Creator: Potter, J. A
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oswego Harbor [New York].

Map shows Fort Ontario, port configuration and lighthouse for Oswego Harbor on Lake Ontario. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:2,670].
Date: 1854
Creator: Wagner & M'Guigan.
System: The Portal to Texas History

The world.

Map shows geographical features and major cities in North America, South America, Oceania, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Map is from General Atlas of the World [1854]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Adam and Charles Black
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of North America exhibiting the recent discoveries, geographical & nautical.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century political divisions, cities, and geography of North and Central America. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:20,800,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: Wyld, James, 1812-1887
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico, California & Texas.

Map shows provinces or states in Mexico, cities and towns for Southwestern United States, Mexico, Belize, and Guatamala, gold discoveries in California, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: "Guatemala or Central America." Includes key to gold discoveries. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:12,000,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: Hall, Sidney
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southern ports & harbours in the United States.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century streets, roads, some buildings, military fortifications, marshland, and lighthouses near the District of Columbia, Beaufort Harbor, Charleston Harbor, Mobile Bay, Pensacola Bay, Key West Island, the Mississippi delta, New Orleans, and Galveston entrance. Depths shown by soundings. Scales differ.
Date: [1854..1874]
Creator: Bartholomew, John, 1805-1861
System: The Portal to Texas History

North America.

Map shows cities, mining activity, and areas of Native American habitation in "British America," "Russian America," the United States, Mexico, Central America. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:13,366,000].
Date: [1854..1862]
Creator: Swanston, George H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch I, showing the progress of the survey in section no. 9 from 1848 to 54.

Map shows towns used for triangulation and areas of completed mapping by sheet number. Includes text, "Notes." Inset: Sub-sketch showing the progress of the Survey of the Rio Grande and vicinity 1853 & 1854. Scale [1:600,000] and [1:400,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: United States Coast Survey
System: The Portal to Texas History

Geological map of the Route Explored by Capt. Jno. Pope, Corps of Topl. Engrs. Near the 32nd Parallel of North Latitude, 1854 : From the Red River to the Rio Grande.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century military posts and some towns, mining activity, and geological makeup of area along the Red River and as far west as the Rio Grande. Includes index of colors as a key to geological composition. Relief shown by shading. Scale [1:3,000,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: Blake, William P. (William Phipps), 1826-1910
System: The Portal to Texas History

General profile from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Martinez, near San Francisco, California.

Map shows profile of a line through the western United States from Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the Pacific Ocean near San Francisco in five continguous segments: "Waters of the Mississippi River," "Waters of the Rio Del Norte," "Waters of Mojave River," "Waters of the Gulf of California," and "Waters of the Pacific." Relief shown by profile. Scale [1:950,400]. Map published with Reports of Explorations for a Railroad Route.
Date: 1854
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

W.B. Dewees's map of the state of Texas : Being a correct map of the counties, principle towns, rivers and bays, the villages and minor water courses not being particulary noticed.

Map shows counties and towns in the eastern half of Texas; Cross Timbers, German settlements in Gillespie County, Fisher's & Millers Colony, and "part of the Fannin Land District."
Date: 1854
Creator: DeWees, William Bluford, 1799-1878
System: The Portal to Texas History

Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio

Map shows harbor entrance, marshland, city lots and building structures at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio during the mid-nineteenth century. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:2,400].
Date: 1854
Creator: Potter, J. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch of the public surveys in Wisconsin and territory of Minnesota.

Map shows township grid, existing settlements, and Indian reservations in Wisconsin and Southeast Minnesota during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes "reference" to symbols used on map. Scale [1: 1,140,480].
Date: 1854
Creator: United States. Surveyor General.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Arkansas.

Map shows Arkansas township grid and existing towns, swampland, and Indian boundaries during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes key to symbols used on map. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Milbourne, George
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch of the public surveys in Iowa.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century township grid for public lands in Iowa and existing towns. Includes reference key to symbols used on map. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1854
Creator: Lewis, Warner
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the United States shewing [sic] the principal steamboat routes and projected railroads connecting with St. Louis.

Map shows existing and "projected" railroad routes including Utah, Oregon and Nebraska Territories. Indicates measured distances in miles between St. Louis and other locations. Relief shown by hachures, form lines and spot heights. Scale not given.
Date: 1854
Creator: Hutawa, Julius
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Madison and the four lake country Dane Co. Wis.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century street layout of the city of Madison, county roads, township grid for adjacent areas of Dane County, existing and proposed railroads. Includes references [key to major buildings] and definition of Indian names. Scale [ca. 1:51,300].
Date: [1854..1856]
Creator: Horace Greeley & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

A map shewing [sic] the continuation of the Dixon Air Line R.R. into the State of Iowa.

Map shows tributary railroad lines from Chicago to the south as far as Keokuk and to the north as far as Minneapolis. Includes table of distances. Scale not shown.
Date: [1854..1874]
Creator: Mendel, Edward, 1827-1884
System: The Portal to Texas History