Map of Texas and part of New Mexico : Compiled in the Bureau of Topographl. Eng'rs. chiefly for military purposes, 1857.

Map shows towns, military outposts, rivers, and military reconnaissance surveys in parts of mid-nineteenth century Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. Includes list of authorities and table of readings from surveyor's stations. Relief shown by hachures and pictorially. Scale [1:1,500,000].
Date: 1857
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Preliminary chart no. 31 of the seacoast of the United States from Galveston Bay to Matagorda Bay Texas : from a trigonometrical survey.

Map shows islands, settlements, and coastline from Matagorda Bay, along Galveston Island, Bolivar Peninsula, and Galveston Bay. Includes text with information on lighthouses, beacons, light vessels, magnetic needle, tides and winds. Relief shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:200,000].
Date: 1857
Creator: Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867
System: The Portal to Texas History

Preliminary chart of the entrance to Matagorda Bay, Texas from a trigonometrical survey.

Map shows coastline details for Matagorda Bay and Lavaca Bay; towns, islands, lighthouses, shipwrecks, structures, and beacons. Includes notes on light houses, tides, soundings, and bottoms. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:40,000], [1:200,000] and [1:40,000].
Date: 1857
Creator: Schulz, Wm. P.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch I, showing the progress of the survey in section no. IX from 1848 to 1857.

Map shows towns along the Gulf of Mexico coastline in Texas used for triangulation. Inset: Sketch Rio Grande and vicinity 1853 & 56. Includes text, "Notes." Scale [1:600,000] and [1:400,000].
Date: 1857
Creator: United States Coast Survey
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Texas geography, towns, and cities. Also indicates the "Cross Timbers" region of Texas and present-day Oklahoma. Inset: "Plan der Galveston Bay." Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca.1:4,224,000].
Date: 1857?
Creator: Flemming, Carl, fl. 1842
System: The Portal to Texas History