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2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
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1990 Census County Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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2000 Census County Block Map
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Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Petroleum-Engineering Study of Sheridan Field, Colorado County, Texas
Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over petroleum-engineering studies conducted at the Sheridan oil field. The methods used for the study are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date:
March 1949
Creator:
Hill, Harry Blackburn & Vogel, Felix A., Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Combined Post-Hole Digger and Wire-Stretcher.
Patent for a combined post hole digger and wire stretcher, which allows barbed wire to be strung on a fence more easily and for fence building to be done by one person.
Date:
August 18, 1908
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua, Sr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Wrench
Patent for an automatic wrench. The wrench possesses a locking movable jaw. Illustrations included.
Date:
January 7, 1913
Creator:
Clay, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Stopping Mechanism for Trains
Patent for an automatic stopping mechanism for trains. Illustration included.
Date:
October 25, 1910
Creator:
Mingo, William, Jr.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Picker's Truck
Patent for a cotton picker's truck. This invention is to provide a device for supporting the sacks of cotton pickers. Illustrations included.
Date:
July 5, 1904
Creator:
Franek, Jakob
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Crate
Patent for a crate designed for more convenience in shipping. Illustrations included.
Date:
April 16, 1907
Creator:
McLeod, Norman J.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Design for an Insect-Exterminator.
Design patent for an insect-exterminator that consists of a circular pan and a conical lamp-body arranged centrally within the pan and projecting above the plane thereof.
Date:
April 11, 1899
Creator:
Hightower, Elijah H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Switch Indicator
Patent for an automatic switch indicator. This invention is designed to "prevent accidents resulting from misplaced switches, due to the carelessness of the railroad employees or the inability of the engineer to see the customary track-signals" (line 14-19). Illustrations included.
Date:
October 23, 1906
Creator:
Coffin, Edward F.; Shaw, Carey & Green, Samuel
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Brooder
Patent for a brooder which prevents chicks from entering after a certain number have gone through the door.
Date:
November 5, 1912
Creator:
Becker, August B.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drier
Patent for a drier used for drying sugar canes from a sugar mill. Illustrations included.
Date:
March 3, 1908
Creator:
Rayner, Henry William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Composition For Staining Wood.
Patent for a “paint or stain, which, when applied, will harden on the common woods of commerce, render them durable and smooth, and give them the exact appearance of black walnut” (lines 15-18).
Date:
May 16, 1882
Creator:
Gloger, Anton F., Jr. & Gloger, Joseph P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for a new and improved clevis. This design "is to provide a clevis with a series of attaching-loops whereby the line of draft may be changed as circumstances may require, to bring the line of draft to either side of the plow-beam, or above or below the same, and to provide a clevis with a centrally-located attaching-loop, to be used where a direct or central draft is needed" (lines 11-18).
Date:
January 26, 1886
Creator:
Dunn, Henry Frankling
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper and Cultivator Combined.
Patent for improvement to a cotton-chopper with a "mechanism for cultivating the soil between the hills as well as for bringing the said hills to a regular form" (lines 18-20).
Date:
February 23, 1886
Creator:
Muray, Joseph L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter.
Patent for a new and improved planter. This design consists in "the combination, with the hopper and the seed-slide therein having one end projecting from one end of the hopper, of the reciprocating yoke having its rear portion angular in cross-section and its front portion cylindrical in cross-section and having an arm at one end to engage the opening in the projecting end of the seed-slide, the angular and cylindrical bearings for the respective parts of the yoke, whereby the latter may be unshipped from or attached to the seed-slide, and the mechanism to reciprocate the yoke" (lines 71-83).
Date:
April 23, 1889
Creator:
Armstrong, John Joshua & Lowrey, Andrew Stephen
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Sprinkler.
Patent for a new and improved sprinkler. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the L-shaped nozzle having the longer arm and the shorter arm, the spring-board secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and projecting over the end thereof, and provided with a boss on its upper side, the L-shaped bracket secured to the side of the [shorter] arm and having one end projecting over the spring-valve and provided with a screw-threaded opening, and the thumb-screw inserted through and playing in said opening and having its end swiveled in the boss of the spring-valve" (lines 84-95).
Date:
May 14, 1889
Creator:
Kister, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton or Corn Planter
Patent for novel improvements in the construction or production of cotton or corn planters.
Date:
October 8, 1889
Creator:
Hardison, Dock C. W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car Ventilation.
Patent for an apparatus to improve car ventilation, including illustrations.
Date:
February 18, 1879
Creator:
Knipscheer, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Planter
Patent for a machine used to plant cotton. Contains mechanisms for both plowing a furrow, planting seeds, and covering the seeds.
Date:
June 5, 1883
Creator:
Carter, Edwards D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton and Corn Planter and Cultivator
Patent for...
Date:
April 11, 1883
Creator:
Carter, Edward D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bee Hive.
Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 21, 1878
Creator:
Walton, George Slaughter
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Destroying Insects.
Patent for a new and improved apparatus for killing ants. This design "consist[s] of frame, levers, pivoted arms, piston-rod, piston provided with valves and openings, air-tight iron chamber having opening pipe, furnace provided with double lid, lugs, pipe, clamp, and wedge . . . whereby the flame as well as the poisonous vapors are injected into the insect chambers" (lines 50-58).
Date:
August 2, 1881
Creator:
Gray, Hiram Balderston
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 4032, Chapter 953
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 15, 2007
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-890
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Can the sheriff of Colorado County legally charge mileage actually and necessarily traveled in attempting to serve a criminal subpoena?
Date:
May 31, 1939
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-6664
Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Grover Sellers, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the commissioners' court of Colorado County can use ad valorem taxes donated to the Colorado County Flood Control District for purposes other than flood control, such as the construction and maintenance of bridges and county roads.
Date:
August 31, 1945
Creator:
Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History