Itasca 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: 1976
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Covington 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Blum 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: 1968
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Brazos Point 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: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Maypearl 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Grandview 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cleburne East 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cleburne West 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Bono 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: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Venus 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Alvarado 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Keene 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Joshua 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Godley 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: 1979
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Britton 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mansfield 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: 1981
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Burleson 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: 1981
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Primrose 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: 1978
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Cresson 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: 1968
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Johnson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Johnson 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 Johnson County, Texas.
Date: 1985
Creator: Coburn, Winfred C.; Bauer, Arthur R.; Thomas, Paul E. & Zaborske, Richard R.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Johnson 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 1:253,440
Date: 1985
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Improvement in Combined Plow-Carrier and Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for improvement in combined plow-carrier and cotton-chopper by “combining with a plow-carrier, a revolving wheel, placed at right angles with the line of direction of the plows, and provided with a number of horizontal cutters at the ends of its spokes, for the purpose of cutting square across the ridges of earth cast up by the plows, in which cotton seed is sown, and dividing the ridges into isolated hills, each containing one or more cotton-plants.” (Lines 23-29) Illustration is included.
Date: May 18, 1869
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers. (open access)

Improvement in Cotton Scrapers and Choppers.

Patent for improvement in cotton scrapers and choppers by way of the innovative placement of plows.
Date: November 8, 1870
Creator: Hale, Nathan
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses. (open access)

Improvement in Hay and Cotton Presses.

Patent for a new and improved hay and cotton press, including illustrations.
Date: July 3, 1874
Creator: Kirtley, Fielding L
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History