El Paso

Topographic quadrangle map of El Paso, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, and roads, with relief shown by contours and spot heights. Location, coverage, and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000 On back is a map of El Paso, Texas, and the vicinity, showing roads, bodies of water, and landmarks. Scale ca. 1:40,000
Date: 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

State of New Mexico

Map of New Mexico, showing county lines, roads, and towns. The map also includes American Indian reservations, National Parks, land grants, areas of elevation, and bodies of water. Relief shown by hachures. Scale ca. 1:760,320
Date: 1950
Creator: New Mexico State Highway Department
System: The Portal to Texas History

State of New Mexico

Map of New Mexico, showing county lines, roads, and towns. The map also includes American Indian reservations, National Parks, land grants, areas of elevation, and bodies of water. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:760,320] (12 miles to the inch).
Date: 1950
Creator: New Mexico State Highway Department
System: The Portal to Texas History

Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas. Profile Guadalupe River.

Map of the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers and their tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, oil pipelines, average bank lines, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers, Texas. Profile San Antonio River.

Map of the Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers and their tributaries, showing spillways, dams, proposed sites for dams, oil pipelines, average bank lines, bridges, elevations above mean sea level datum (in feet), and U.S. Geological Survey river flow gauges. The map also includes highways and major towns located near the river banks. Scale varies.
Date: May 1950
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas

Map of Texas, showing cities and towns, county seats, state parks and forests, pioneer roads and trails, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Note in the lower-left corner by Bascom Giles, Commissioner of the General Land Office in the 1950s. Handwritten note in pencil: "Property of N. H. Kincaid." Relief shown pictorially. Scale [ca. 1:1,520,640] (24 miles to the inch).
Date: 1951
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Waco and Northwestern Railroad Company Survey

Survey map of Kent County, Texas, showing the Waco & Northwestern Railroads Company lands. The map includes the Salt Fork of the Brazos River. Each block of land includes information about what it contains (e.g. cotton field, trees found, iron pipe). Scale [ca. 7,000] (200 varas to the inch).
Date: December 1951
Creator: Estes, M. R.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brown Cedar Cut Quadrangle: Texas-Matagorda Co.

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing Turkey Island, Intracoastal Waterway, Live Oak Bay, East Matagorda Bay, Brown Cedar Cut, Matagorda Peninsula, and the Gulf of Mexico, with relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights. The map includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1952
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cedar Lakes West Quadrangle: Texas

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing Cedar lake, Cedar Creek, Cow Trap Lake, Dead Caney Lake, Intracoastal Waterway, Cedar Lakes, Choctow Lake, and the Gulf of Mexico, with relief shown by contours and spot heights. The map includes a key and road classification and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cedar Lane NE Quadrangle: Texas

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, pipe lines, telephone lines, railroads, roads, and landmarks, including San Bernard River, Cedar Lake, Cedar Creek, Cocklebur Slough, and Clemens State Farm. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights, and includes key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Etheridge's Oct. 1953 City Map Abilene, Texas

Map of Abilene, Texas, showing highways, roads, and streets. The map also includes bodies of water, such as Lytle Lake and Cedar Creek. Includes the handwritten addition of McMurry University, located on Sayles Boulevard. The schools, parks, public buildings, and hospitals numbers correspond to a separate index.
Date: 1953
Creator: Etheridge, Kenneth A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Long Island Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, mud flats, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including Intracoastal Waterway, Shoalwater Bay, Long Island, Steamboat Pass, Steamboat Island, Espiritu Santo Bay, Josephine Reef, Vanderveer Island, South Pass, South Pass Island, First Chain of Islands, South Pass Lake, Contee Lake, Rahal Bayou, Pringle Lake, Long Lake, Pats Bay, Power Lake, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Panther Point Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including San Antonio Bay, Panther Reef, Cedar Point, Cedar Lake, Twin Lakes, Panther Point, Panther Point Lake, Swan Lake, Cottonwood Bayou, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Pass Cavallo SW Quadrangle: Texas--Calhoun Co.

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing boundaries, water bodies, roads, and landmarks, including Grass Island, Espiritu Santo Bay, Mule Slough, Farwell Island, Big Pocket, Lighthouse Cove, Fish Pond, Vanderveer Island, Pringle Lake, Matagorda Island, Matagorda Island Bombing and Gunnery Range, Matagorda Island Air Force Base, U.S. Coast Guard Station, Pass Cavallo, and the Gulf of Mexico. Relief shown by contours and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sargent quadrangle: Texas--Matagorda Co.

Topographic quadrangle map of a portion of Texas, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 5 feet) and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1953
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
System: The Portal to Texas History

Abilene

Topographic quadrangle map of Abilene, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Amarillo

Topographic quadrangle map of Amarillo, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Big Springs

Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownfield

Topographic quadrangle map of Brownfield, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brownwood

Topographic quadrangle map of Brownwood, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

Topographic quadrangle map of Hobbs, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hobbs

Topographic quadrangle map of Hobbs, New Mexico, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. Location and sectionalized township diagrams are included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Lubbock

Topographic quadrangle map of Lubbock, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Pecos

Topographic quadrangle map of Pecos, Texas, showing populated areas, boundaries, water bodies, railroads, roads, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights and includes a key, road classification, and quadrangle location diagrams. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
System: The Portal to Texas History