Resource Type

Official Railroad and County Map of Texas

Pocket map of Texas and the surrounding areas with railroads marked in color. Geographic features are noted, as well as counties and some cities.
Date: 1910
Creator: Railroad Commission of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History

Court record, map of San Antonio River area

Sam S. Smith, clerk, certifies that tract of land along San Antonio River is correctly surveyed, platted and recorded; map included with an area shown as the ‘Town Tract’
Date: October 18, 1852
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"County Map of Texas"

Hand-colored map of Texas showing counties, rivers, roads, and towns with inset of Galveston Bay
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"County map of Texas"

Hand-colored map showing the counties of Texas
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Official Centennial Map of Texas

Historical map of Texas distributed for its Centennial celebration in 1936 with illustrated landmarks and trails on the map, as well as illustrations around the outside of the map depicting portraits of historical figures and images of sites and events.
Date: unknown
Creator: Daughters of the Republic of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Carte des Etats-Unis du Mexique"

Hand-colored engraving of Mexico with inset of Guatemala shoring settlements, roads and topography; includes Lapie's blind stamp
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Galveston Entrance, Texas"

Navigation chart of the entrance to Galveston Bay and showing a plat map of the city of Galveston
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Decatur, Texas, 1890"

Bird's Eye View of Decatur; Toned lithograph after Thaddeus Mortimer Fowler (1842-1922)
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Sunset, Montague Co. Texas, 1890"

Bird's eye view of Sunset, Texas, notes the public school, M.E. Church, commercial hotel, and railroad station
Date: 1890
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wichita Falls, Texas, 1890

Bird's eye view of Wichita Falls notes court house, public schools, churches, and various businesses. A pictoral map of the city is visible in the center of the image with drawings of various buildings around the outside.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Wolfe City, Texas: 1891"

Bird's eye view of Wolfe City notes public school, opera house, Melville Hotel, Methodist church, Baptist church, Wolfe City foundry, Wolfe City cotton seed oil mills, Cotton Belt railroad station, and Santa Fe railroad station
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Genl. Austins map of Texas with parts of the adjoining states"

"Genl. Austins map of Texas with parts of the adjoining states"
Date: 1840
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Bird's Eye View of the City of Houston, Texas, 1873]

Aerial view map of Houston, Texas. The map shows a view of Houston looking south towards Buffalo Bayou.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Central America: II. Including Texas, California and the northern states of Mexico"

Hand-colored map of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"Washington County, Texas"

Plat map of original land grants in Washington County
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

[City Maps]

Street maps of Dallas, Texas and Indianapolis. Bodies of water as well as parks, cemeteries, and other features are shaded in green or blue. Some kinds of roads are marked with additional symbols (there is a key beneath the title on the Indianapolis map) and most streets and major buildings are labeled.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

"County Map of Texas and Indian Territory"

Hand-colored map of Texas showing counties, roads, railroads and towns; from H.H. Lloyd & Co.'s Atlas of the United States, p. 79
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston, Texas. (Looking South), 1891

Hand-colored chromolithograph print of a bird'e eye-view of Houston, Texas. It has insets of various public and private buildings and directories of public buildings, hotels, railroads, manufactories and churches listed at the bottom of the page.
Date: 1891
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

New Map of Texas, with the contiguous American & Mexican States

Hand-colored map of Texas showing adjacent territories, grants, and states. Regions are shaded in various colors. Text boxes around the map include information on "Land Grants," "Rivers of Texas," and "Remarks on Texas."
Date: 1835
Creator: Young, J. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

New Map of the State of Texas Compiled from J.De Cordova's Large Map

Hand-colored map of Texas showing roads, towns, and topography with insets of the Panhandle, Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico

Hand-colored map of southern United States and Mexico to Guatimala. Mexican states and other regions are outlined in color. Towns, roads and geographic features are marked with topography shown by hachures. There is an inset in the lower-left corner of the map with a portion of Mexico including Mexico City and surrounding areas.
Date: unknown
Creator: Arrowsmith, J.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Colton's New Map of the State of Texas Compiled From J.D. Cordova's Large Map.

Hand-colored map of Texas and the surrounding areas including roads, towns and topography. There are three insets in the lower-left corner: Plan of the Northern Part of Texas, Plan of Galveston Bay, and Plan of Sabine Lake.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico & Texas.

Hand-colored map of Mexico and Texas as well as the surrounding areas. Each of the Mexican states and the Republic of Texas are shaded in various colors. Settlements, rivers, and mountains are marked with relief shown by hachures.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

San Augustine County, Texas

Plat map of original land grants in San Augustine County. The map is signed in the lower-left corner by W. C. Walsh, the commissioner for the General Land Office verifying its accuracy. Scale ca. 1:133,334
Date: 1879
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History