Regional Open Space Planning (open access)

Regional Open Space Planning

Report on open space planning in the greater Alamo area in Texas which presents open space planning concepts and identified areas that meet the minimum regional requirements for open green space.
Date: September 1971
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Open Space Plan (open access)

Regional Open Space Plan

This report presents and applies the concept of utility open space to the Alamo Area Council of Governments region, and delineates utility open space needs, priorities, and opportunities.
Date: March 1973
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
AACOG Water Resource Management Plan: Volume 1 (open access)

AACOG Water Resource Management Plan: Volume 1

First part of a report about the official water resources plan adopted by the Alamo Area Council of Governments for the planning region. This volume provides a description of the group's methodology and an analysis of water resource areas.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Drug Abuse Plan: 1978-1979 (open access)

Regional Drug Abuse Plan: 1978-1979

Comprehensive policy and action strategy statement created to meet the drug abuse prevention, treatment and rehabilitation needs of the Alamo area.
Date: June 1978
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map 1. Regional Open Space Framework

Map of the Alamo Area open space framework, denoting the Edwards Aquifer recharge area, highways, rivers, established communities, flood plains, and agricultural lands.
Date: December 1968
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Wastewater Development Plan: Water Quality Planning (open access)

Regional Wastewater Development Plan: Water Quality Planning

This document reports the study results of waste water in the Alamo area, analyzes existing collection and treatment systems, and presents alternatives for water quality management.
Date: 1970
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
AACOG Water Resource Management Plan: Volume 2 (open access)

AACOG Water Resource Management Plan: Volume 2

Second part of a report about the official water resources plan adopted by the Alamo Area Council of Governments for the planning region. This volume addresses the cost of installing water distribution, waste water collection, and storm drainage facilities.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map 5.] Open Space Potentials in the AACOG Region

Map of open space potentials in the Alamo area, denoting existing or projected developments and potential developments.
Date: September 1972
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Housing Market and Industry Profile: Phase 2 (open access)

Housing Market and Industry Profile: Phase 2

Summary: This report is a brief analysis of the Housing Market and Industry in the Alamo Area Council of Governments Region. It relates the various sources of housing and locates geographically their concerted efforts, in order to identify gaps and unmet needs. It incorporates housing activity throughout the entire eleven county region and will form an important base of the regional housing development plan.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, June 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, June 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper South Texas area.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, December 2011 (open access)

Primary Care Case Management Primary Care Provider and Hospital List: Upper South Texas, December 2011

List of Primary Care Case Management program approved primary care providers, hospitals, specialists, and family planning providers, located in the Upper South Texas area.
Date: December 2011
Creator: Primary Care Case Management
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fire-Alarm. (open access)

Automatic Fire-Alarm.

Patent for the automatic fire alarm system relates to a fusing wire that reacts to any heat or fire by closing circuit inside of the battery resulting in sounding off the alarm, and thus, improving the fire-alarm system structure.
Date: March 15, 1904
Creator: Fred, Mason K.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seed Planter (open access)

Seed Planter

Patent for a seed planter. This invention is designed to plant seed in hills at any desired predetermined distance apart.
Date: October 6, 1903
Creator: Coble, William H.; Coble, Robert L.; Johnson, Bennett & Johnson, N. J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Package-Tie. (open access)

Package-Tie.

Patent for a package tie for packages of mail, which holds securely and is easily undone by pulling from both ends.
Date: August 18, 1908
Creator: Sharpe, Edmund L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator. (open access)

Cotton Chopper and Cultivator.

Patent for improvement in cotton chopper and cultivator in “which the cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to cultivator-blades may be readily adjusted to any desired distance from the row of plants that is being operated upon, and in which the number of chopping-hoes may be increased or diminished, so as to regulate the distance between the stands of cotton or the extent of each stand.” (Lines 13-19) Illustration is included.
Date: March 24, 1903
Creator: McAda, James Newton
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder (open access)

Seeder

Patent for a seeder. This invention relates to seed dropping mechanisms for corn planters. Illustration included.
Date: January 29, 1907
Creator: Mouser, Robert H., Jr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Seeder (open access)

Seeder

Patent for an attachment or stand-alone seeding device which is "inexpensive...durable, and easy and effective in operation." (lines 16 & 17) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 17, 1906
Creator: Mouser, Robert H., Jr
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Design for a Bouquet Holder. (open access)

Design for a Bouquet Holder.

Patent for a new and original bouquet-holder made of ductile wiring.
Date: January 12, 1897
Creator: Postert, Alwina D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cactus-Burner. (open access)

Cactus-Burner.

Patent for a new and useful cactus burner for "removing thorns from cactus or prickly pear or similar plants or growths of a fleshy or succulent nature provided with spines" (line 10 - 13).
Date: August 8, 1899
Creator: Beever, Charles H. & McCoy, William A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Poteet 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 1:24000
Date: 1981
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fashing 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 1:24000
Date: 1964
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tordia 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 1:62500
Date: 1931
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Pleasanton

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 1:100000
Date: 1992
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Peggy 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 1:24000
Date: 1969
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History