P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 5

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 6

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 11

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 12

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 18

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Block 19

Parent map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:18,000.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Matagorda County, Index

Index map for Matagorda County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:165,807.
Date: December 10, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 19

Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date: December 11, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Block 27

Parent map for Wharton County, Texas showing the area of one geographic block for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:14,000.
Date: December 11, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

P.L. 94-171 County Block Map (2010 Census): Wharton County, Index

Index map for Wharton County, Texas showing the distribution of census blocks and smaller inset areas for which the U.S. Census Bureau collected data. The plotted map scale is 1:114,632.
Date: December 11, 2010
Creator: United States. Bureau of the Census.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Brazoria County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:380,160.
Date: 1981
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper (open access)

Cotton Chopper

Patent for cotton chopper. This invention is on a wheel mounted frame and is adjustable for cutting out sections at desired intervals. Illustration included.
Date: January 15, 1907
Creator: Walter, William Thomas
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Support for Wire Fences. (open access)

Support for Wire Fences.

Patent for improvements to supports for wire fences, so that wooden posts and other supplemental devices are not necessary. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 1, 1891
Creator: Weeks, Frank B.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Milk-Cooler. (open access)

Milk-Cooler.

Patent for improvements in the construction of water evaporation milk-coolers to make them more easily taken apart and arranged for shipping and preventing ants from entering the device and getting in the milk. Descriptions of the parts of the device and illustrations are included.
Date: June 10, 1902
Creator: Whaley, William L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Waller Counties,Texas, 1980-84 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements and, Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Brazoria, Fort Bend and Waller Counties,Texas, 1980-84

This report presents the results of the hydrologic data collection on new large-capacity and other elected wells, including well location and completion data, driller's logs of the strata penetrated, water levels, and chemical quality of the produced water.
Date: November 1987
Creator: Williams, James F., III; Ranzau, C. E.; Lind, W. B. & Coplin, L. S.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Screw-Propulsion. (open access)

Improvement in Screw-Propulsion.

Patent for "a new and useful Improvement in Screw-Propellers and their adaptation to the hulls of vessels" (lines 4-6) including illustrations.
Date: November 9, 1875
Creator: Wilson, Joseph Erwin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ditch-Filling Machine (open access)

Ditch-Filling Machine

Patent for a Ditch-Filling Machine, focusing on improved operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The upgraded machine boasts user-friendly features, making it easily operable, while simultaneously reducing production costs in comparison to its predecessor.
Date: August 9, 1921
Creator: Witt, William C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pipe-Cutter (open access)

Pipe-Cutter

Patent for improved pipe cutters that indicate when a pipe has been completely severed inside of a well
Date: May 11, 1920
Creator: Wright, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Process of and Apparatus for Extracting Crystallized Sugar from Bagasse. (open access)

Process of and Apparatus for Extracting Crystallized Sugar from Bagasse.

Patent for a new and improved extractor of crystallized sugar from bagasse. This design "is to save a percentage of [the] loss in the [sugarcane] juice, and also to secure a part, if not all, of the crystallized sugar from the refuse or bagasse or from any other plant producing saccharine matter. To that end [the invention] subject[s] the bagasse to a process which extracts the remaining juice and the crystallized-sugar by suction and atmospheric pressure" (lines 13-21).
Date: February 19, 1884
Creator: Yale, Thomas Blossom
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer (open access)

Updating the Hydrogeologic Framework for the Northern Portion of the Gulf Coast Aquifer

This report documents the development of the structure, lithology, and depositional framework for the Gulf Coast Aquifer system from the Brazos River north to the Sabine River and into Louisiana. (p. xiii).
Date: June 2012
Creator: Young, Steven C.; Ewing, Tom; Hamlin, Scott; Baker, Ernie & Lupton, Daniel
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool. (open access)

Wire Stretching and Splicing Tool.

Patent for a wire stretching and splicing tool used when repairing barbed wire and other wire fences. It connects the ends of broken wires by bringing them together and twisting them. It has a wire gripping device, an adjustable end that corresponds to the wire gripper, a way to separate the above listed parts and bring them back together again, and a clamping device.
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: la Bauve, Odelon Joseph
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
First order leveling: Pleasant Bayou geothermal test site, Brazoria County, Texas (open access)

First order leveling: Pleasant Bayou geothermal test site, Brazoria County, Texas

First order leveling to be conducted as part of an environmental monitoring program for a geopressured test well was reported. 39.43 kilometers of first order levels were run to NGS specifications. Twelve Class B type bench marks were set to NGS specifications. The adjusted elevation of bench mark C-1209 was used as a starting elevation and is based on a supplementary adjustment of April 6, 1979 by NGS. The closure for the loop around the well site is -0.65 millimeters. The distance around the loop is 1.29 kilometers, the allowable error of closure was 4.54 millimeters. The initial leveling of this well was performed in 1977. A thorough search for their monumentation was conducted. No monuments were found due to the lack of adequate monument descriptions. Therefore, an elevation comparison summary for this report is only available along the NGS lines outside the well area. The first order level tie to line No. 101 (BMA-1208) was +3.37 millimeters in 17.21 kilometers. The allowable error of closure was 12.44 millimeters.
Date: October 1, 1984
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library