Ratcliff 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 1:24,000
Date: 1950
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Crockett Northeast 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 1:24,000
Date: 1950
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grapeland 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 1:24,000
Date: 1951
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hays Spring 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 1:24,000
Date: 1964
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Stanmire Lake 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 1:24,000
Date: 1964
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Forest 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 1:24,000
Date: 1973
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Weches 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 1:24,000
Date: 1973
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Augusta 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 1:24,000
Date: 1982
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Elkhart Creek 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 1:24,000
Date: 1982
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Indian Lake 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 1:24,000
Date: 1982
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Wyser Bottom 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 1:24,000
Date: 1972
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Baker Lake 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 1:24,000
Date: 1972
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Percilla 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 1:24,000
Date: 1982
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Houston County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Houston County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Houston County, Texas.
Date: 2002
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Houston County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:316,800
Date: 2002
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores (open access)

Improvement in Furnaces for Producing Hydrogen and Treating Ores

Patent for an improvement on heating furnaces, having an external water tank and steam tank and an orifice for the admission of steam from the water chamber.
Date: March 28, 1871
Creator: Morris, Joseph R.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Spark-Arresters. (open access)

Improvement in Spark-Arresters.

Patent for a new and useful Improvements in Spark-Arresters
Date: April 25, 1876
Creator: Liscow, Robert
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Ditching and Excavating Machines.

Patent for "an improved machine for making ditches and other excavations, which shall be so constructed as to separate the slice from the soil, raise it, and deposit it at the side of the cut, which will feed itself forward automatically." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 18, 1877
Creator: De Force, Samuel A.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Seed Planters (open access)

Improvement in Seed Planters

Patent for "improvement in Seed Planters as herein described and pointed out in the claim..."(paragraph 4 contains instructions and references to the illustration Fig 1 and Fig 2 as well as these illustrations labeled parts)
Date: February 25, 1873
Creator: Friday, Reuben
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Churns. (open access)

Improvement in Churns.

Patent for a better churn which makes butter faster, releases butter from the churn more easily, and is simple to create and use. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 1, 1878
Creator: McConnell, John A. & McConnell, William V.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Planter

Patent for a combined cotton chopper and planter, made to be easy to construct and easy to convert between functions.
Date: October 11, 1892
Creator: Parker, Francis H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Tool. (open access)

Combination Tool.

Patent for a new and improved multi-tool. This design "consists in a combination-tool embodying in a single implement a nail and staple-puller, pinchers, nail-straightener, and wire-cutters, the device being more particularly designed for use in constructing, taking down, and resetting wire fencing" (lines 7-12).
Date: July 22, 1884
Creator: Beazley, James Harvey
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Game-Board (open access)

Game-Board

Patent for "a game-board having a trough at its head and squared apertures near said head, and numbered cubical blocks adapted to be revolved in said apertures" (lines 18-21) and "has relation to games to be played on bowling-alleys or boards with balls" (lines 16-17) including illustrations.
Date: June 22, 1880
Creator: Thompson, James Whiteford.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bed Attachment for Invalids. (open access)

Bed Attachment for Invalids.

Patent for a new and improved bed attachment for bed-ridden persons. This design "consists, principally, of a frame, hinged between the side boards of the bedstead, said frame having a removable seat and adapted to be brought to a vertical position for supporting the [bed-ridden person] in a sitting position. The invention also consists in the construction and arrangement of parts" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 11, 1881
Creator: Brown, Joshua Perry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History