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 1:24000

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 1:24000

Photograph of Upshur County Courthouse in Gilmer, TX. A sidewalk lined with parking meters separates the green lawn of the courthouse from a dark brick road on which a yellow car drives, partially appearing in the bottom right corner of the photo. A telephone pole and a streetlight sit in the left edge of the courthouse's lawn while bushes and tall trees sits behind them and on the right edge of the lawn. A short set of stairs mostly obscured by grass sits in the right edge of the lawn and leads from the brick road. through the lawn. and up to a large patch of brown dirt. At the top of the dirt is the courthouse, a building made consisting of multiple rectangular sections made with orange bricks and accented with white stone. The entryway to the building is one section and has three archways leading to the front doors of the building, with "Upshur County Court House" written above the arches. This section has one row of windows across its width. Two additional sections sit on either end of the entryway and rise taller than it, accommodating two rows of windows across their widths. A third section sits …