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Soil map, Texas, Rockwall County sheet
Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, levees, rivers, towns, schools, churches, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date:
1928
Creator:
United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey, Rockwall County, Texas
Text describes the area, climate, agriculture and soils of Rockwall County, Texas.
Date:
1928
Creator:
Geib, H. V. (Horace Valentine), b. 1890
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Terrell North 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:
1962
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Forney North 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:
1973
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mesquite 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:
1973
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Royse City 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:
1963
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rockwall 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:
1973
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rowlett 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:
1973
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3098, Chapter 652
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the composition of the Rockwall County Juvenile Board.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1518, Chapter 1357
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to validation of the creation of and certain acts taken by the Rockwall County Public Safety and Fire Assistance District.
Date:
June 18, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2054, Chapter 1349
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the powers and duties of the Parker Creek Municipal Utility District of Rockwall County; providing authority to issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1855, Chapter 455
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Rockwall County Municipal Utility Districts Nos. 6, 7, 8, and 9; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 1881, Chapter 902
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the validation, annexation, powers, and duties of the Parker Creek Municipal Utility District of Rockwall County; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds; granting the power of eminent domain.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Farm-Fences.
Patent for a new and useful improvement in fence including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
July 29, 1873
Creator:
McKenzie, Winfield S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Sulky-Plows.
Patent for an improvement on sulky-plows which allows it to be adjusted for different uses.
Date:
August 28, 1877
Creator:
Renfro, Roberson A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Construction of Jails.
Patent for improvement in construction of jails; in which a system of flues in between layers of a double floor provide ventilation through grates in the walls and upper layer of the floor, without compromising security.
Date:
October 19, 1875
Creator:
Seeber, John A. & Croxton, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bolt and Nut-Lock.
Patent for "a nut-lock of such construction that it may be used either as a permanent nut-lock or one in which the locking feature may be thrown out of engagement when it is desired to remove the bolt for any purpose." (Lines 15-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 21, 1896
Creator:
Nevill, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Antirefilling Bottle.
Patent for a bottle that can be easily sealed but cannot be resealed after opened. There is a groove in the neck of the bottle, and the cork is placed below the groove. The cork is hollowed out and a plug is placed in the cork. The cork is hollowed out and a plug with a groove around it is placed in the cork.An elastic compressible locking-ring fits in the gap the groove in the bottle and the groove in the plug create.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Nevill, William B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date:
January 5, 1897
Creator:
Nevill, William Birt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.
Patent for a machine that allows the user to simultaneously cut down and plow cotton, or perform either task separately. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
October 5, 1897
Creator:
Hargrove, Byron Lafayette
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Machine for Making Tablets
Patent for a machine for making tablets. This patent describes improvements in tablet-making machines or molds, which will be simple in construction and which will make tablets of different sizes, there being provided plates which are perforated and of different sizes whereby the thickness which it is desired to mold the tablets may be regulated.
Date:
February 25, 1896
Creator:
Loving, Joseph H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Trace-Fastener.
Patent for improvements in trace fasteners, with illustrations.
Date:
June 29, 1897
Creator:
Brownwell, John A. F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Plow.
Patent for a new and improved plow. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a plow-beam, of a plow-standard pivotally secured to the rear end of said beam, a brace pivotally secured to the standard, and a sliding clamp for securing the front end of the brace to the beam" (lines 90-94).
Date:
April 13, 1886
Creator:
Ketchum, Joel Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Pumping Apparatus.
Patent for a pumping apparatus that has "certain improvements in that class of pumps known as ejectors for raising liquids out of wells by means of compressed air or stream" (lines 9-12). The pump quickly and easily raises large amounts of water and is an improvement on a patent previously granted to the inventor (No. 474,819).
Date:
March 27, 1894
Creator:
Nevill, William Birt
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History