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2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
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2000 Census County Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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1990 Census County Block Map
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2010 Census County Block Map
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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
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Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Digital Raster Graphic Topographic Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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2007 Economic Census Map
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Western United States 1:250,000
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Railway-Rail Support and Coupling.
Patent for improved combined railway rail supports and joints that increases the efficiency and utility of such devices. Eliminates the need of employing additional bolts or other fastening means.
Date:
July 29, 1913
Creator:
Acker, Charles C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron.
Patent for an andiron that combines with a gated screen including illustrations.
Date:
July 28, 1914
Creator:
Baker, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Biological, Social, and Economic Impacts of Exempting a Largemouth Bass Fishing Tournament from Slot Length Limits at Lake Fork Reservoir, Texas
This document provides data about the "biological, social, and economic impacts of exempting largemouth bass fishing tournaments at the Lake Fork Reservoir." (p. 1).
Date:
2012
Creator:
Barkoh, Aaron
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for a cotton chopper. Illustration included.
Date:
July 12, 1904
Creator:
Brown, Christopher C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Flue-Cleaner.
Patent for a flue cleaner for steam boilers, which has easily replaceable parts.
Date:
November 10, 1908
Creator:
Brown, James William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate-Clamping Machine.
Patent for "improvement in crate clamping machines" (line 10), holding end boards and partition of crates to enable crate assembly.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
C. T. Dickson; Dickson, C. T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler with a coupling-pin of improved construction, and to combine said pin with effective and durable devices for raising and lowering it. The invention consists in the combinations of parts" (lines 9-15).
Date:
June 12, 1883
Creator:
Cage, George A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Patent for Cotton-Treating Machine
Patent for a cotton treating machine that cleans and treats any low grade cotton through the rolling process. This treating machine focuses on bolly cotton and other cotton that has burs in it as it helps to breakdown these burs so that the process of ginning is easier.
Date:
March 2, 1920
Creator:
Cassel, John L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper
Patent for improved Cotton-Chopper, with illusrations and description.
Date:
August 19, 1913
Creator:
Clayton, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Vehicle Seat Brace
Patent for a vehicle seat brace. The invention is a brace for seats to sustain weight placed in the seat. Illustration included.
Date:
October 9, 1906
Creator:
Cool, Isaac W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Andiron.
Patent for improvement in andirons “which is so arranged as to permit ready access to the fireplace for the purpose of cleaning out the ashes and having a removable fender which is capable of being quickly and readily removed or placed in position to retain the fire and prevent the fire from rolling out the fireplace.” (Lines 47-54.) Illustration is included.
Date:
March 26, 1901
Creator:
Cox, John Drew
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Mixing Machine.
Patent for a feed mixing machine for stock feed made from cotton seed hulls and cotton seed meal.
Date:
June 1, 1909
Creator:
Dabney, Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Valve-Gear for Steam-Engines.
Patent for "an improvement in steam-engines which shall be so constructed as to give a full application of the steam and a free exhaust at regular intervals, which will enable the engine to be easily reversed, can be easily attached to any engine, which will enable an engine to be worked by water-pressure, will run smoothly and with very little friction, and will be very durable." (Lines 11-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 24, 1877
Creator:
Davis, James H. & White, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Presses.
Patent for an improved cotton press: "Our invention consists of a contrivance for driving the screw, which works the follower by a worm when doing the work, and a toothed wheel when returning the follower; also, of a removable case which receives the pressed bale and carries it away on a truck to be tied, while another box takes its place to receive the next bale" (lines 8-15). Includes illustrations and instructions.
Date:
October 17, 1876
Creator:
Davis, James Harvey & White, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nut-Lock
Patent for a nut lock, to hold a nut in place or act in place of a washer, including illustrations.
Date:
September 25, 1900
Creator:
Dowell, Jeff Davis & Galliher, Lawrence M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a plow, which can cover two rows at a time and which can be used to put out insecticide in the fields.
Date:
March 10, 1908
Creator:
Farrington, Johnathan W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow Attachment.
Patent for a plow attachment by using a socket adapted to be clamped in position upon the beam (line 15). “Plow equipped with the attachment may be used at a straddle-row cultivator, or a middle furrow cultivator, and that the teeth may be so arranged as to cast the soil toward or away from the plants, as occasion may require” (lines 35-40). Illustration is included.
Date:
January 11, 1910
Creator:
Farrington, Johnathan William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow-Cultivator.
Patent for a harrow cultivator, which can be operated on opposite sides of a row of plants at the same time.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Farris, Henry C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cultivator and Harrow
Patent for a combined cultivator and harrow. "This invention relates to an improved agricultural implement comprising in its construction a cultivator and a harrow, the tooth elements of which are so constructed and supported by the frame as to be capable of being adjusted for operation in several different positions" (line 8-14) illustration included.
Date:
June 30, 1903
Creator:
Farris, Henry Clay
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bed-Slat Fastener.
Patent for an improved construction of a bed-slat fastener, one "adapted to support a bed-slat firmly in position and to prevent the side rails of a bedstead from springing outward" (lines 14-16). There are also "no recesses or crevices for the accumulation of vermin" (lines 19-20) in this design.
Date:
January 26, 1897
Creator:
Fielding, Charles S. & Grogan, John R.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Coupling.
Patent for a new and improved coupling for railroad cars. This design "relates to car-couplers, the object being to provide a coupler of simple and durable construction which may be coupled automatically, thus avoiding the inconvenience and danger incident to the use of the usual coupling-link or pin" (lines 9-14).
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Freeman, Walter F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Harrow.
Patent for "a simple, inexpensive and efficient implement by which roots of weeds and obnoxious grasses may be removed from the ground and destroyed," while also leaving the ground plowed (lines 9-12). The object also provides a simple way to remove accumulation of roots that generally clog implements of this type.
Date:
December 3, 1918
Creator:
Garrett, Jefferson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alba Quadrangle
Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
1981
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Alba Quadrangle
Satellite image topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date:
2011
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History