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2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
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2000 Census County Block Map
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1990 Census County Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
69
2010 Census County Block Map
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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
64
Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
57
Digital Raster Graphic Topographic Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Kempner 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:
1954
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Lampasas 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:
1954
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Nix 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
Gorman Falls 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:
1959
Creator:
Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
80th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3990, Chapter 945
Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the creation of the Burnet County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1; 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
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 967, Chapter 855
Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation of the Central Texas Groundwater Conservation District; providing authority to impose a tax and issue bonds.
Date:
June 17, 2005
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type:
Legislative Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Turbine Water-Wheels.
Patent for a new turbine water wheel, which is said to alleviate past problems with older model turbines. The patent includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
January 11, 1870
Creator:
Chadwick, H. A.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Wedges for Spitting Rock &c.
Patent for improvement for a wedge. This design hollows the middle in two areas to make it easier to handle and more economical.
Date:
April 24, 1875
Creator:
Cosbey, Thomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Cotton-Choppers.
Patent for an improvement in cotton-choppers by way of vertical rock-shafts.
Date:
May 25, 1876
Creator:
Burnham, Theodore O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Car-Trucks.
Patent for the improvement of car-trucks, consisting in the arrangement of each wheel of a car-truck upon the outer end of a separate short axle, the bearings of each axle being both located on the inner side of the wheel and the bearing at the inner end of the axle provided with a sliding-box and springs. It includes a description and illustration.
Date:
July 9, 1872
Creator:
Onley, Joseph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved, durable, and efficient car couple that can be operated from one side of the car for the safety of the operator. The draw-head is newly designed.
Date:
April 18, 1893
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn.
Patent for a churn that has a frame supporting the churn and swinging motion mixes the cream. This invention successfully separates oily globules from the cream, thus making churning more effective and easy.
Date:
October 10, 1893
Creator:
Bailey, James Westey & McNorton, John Tomas
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle.
Patent for a buckle meant for use with harnesses and "wherein the ordinary movable and hinged tongue is dispensed with, and a rigid stud or pointed projection is used in reversed positions at opposite ends of connecting loops" (lines 9-13).
Date:
December 5, 1893
Creator:
Odom, Plesant W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that is simple and can be inexpensively manufactured. The invention's object is "to provide a link controlling device to be used in coupling cars together where the cars have draw-heads of the same or different heights which will render it unnecessary for a person to go between the cars during the operation" (lines 11-16).
Date:
January 30, 1894
Creator:
Smart, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for a car coupling that automatically couples cars so people do not need to go between cars. This invention is meant to "provide an improved car coupler of the above character, which shall be simple and economical in construction and efficient in operation" (lines 21-24).
Date:
March 6, 1894
Creator:
Lawhon, David West
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling.
Patent for an improved car-coupling that automatically couples cars by "striking together adjacent couplers of the same class, and which may be conveniently uncoupled by a person standing at a distance from the coupler without going between the cars, as with the ordinary couplers" (lines 10-15).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Bishop, James C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Wire Stretcher.
Patent for a new and improved wire stretcher. This design consists in "[t]he combination . . . of the side bars having a toothed wheel journaled between them and provided with a crank, a set of cross bars or bolts connecting the two side bars, a pawl hung upon one of the cross-bars and having its toothed end arranged to abut against the teeth of the wheel, and a chain passing over the toothed wheel and underneath the pawl" (lines 67-76).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Tuning-Hammer.
Patent for improvements in tuning-hammers by using a handle having a central square hole closed at its upper end, a ferrule around its lower end adapted to receive a tool. The tool is a T shaped head having holes in the ends of its cross-bar and the end of its shank adapted to fit into the handle that can be used to tune pianos. Illustration is included.
Date:
September 1, 1891
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Washing Machine.
Patent for a new and improved washing machine. This design consists of "the rotating disk or circular-washboard, faced with radial ribs and operated by a crank which is supported in a plane parallel to the bottom of the box, so that the circular board shall rotate at a right angle thereto; the galvanized-sheet-iron inner box, made with a semi-cylindrical bottom to receive the circular wash-board; and the separate detachable wash-board, provided with a semicircle of radial ribs, and which fits into the sheet-iron box opposite to the circular rotating board" (lines 18-28).
Date:
May 30, 1882
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Washing-Machines
Patent for "... an improved washing-machine which shall be simple in construction, convenient in use, easily operated, and effective in operation." (lines 12-15)
Date:
September 2, 1879
Creator:
Fuchs, Benjamin F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Steam Engine, &c.
Patent for a new and improved engine. This design "connect[s] the piston-rod of the steam-cylinder with the disk or crank that is attached to the fly-wheel shaft by means of a lever, or a disk acting as such, in a manner that enables the piston-rod to operate upon its connecting-bar in a longitudinal direction . . . thereby [avoiding] angular vibration of the connecting-rod and reduc[ing] friction of sliding surfaces" (lines 15-25).
Date:
December 11, 1883
Creator:
Barton, Alexander M. & Davis, Philip Z.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milk Cooler.
Patent for a new and improved cooler. This design "consist[s] of the main vessel adapted to contain the substance to be cooled, having its upper end open and the walls of said open end drawn or inclined inward, as described, the water vessel supported on said main vessel, with a space between its bottom and the top of the main vessel, and made larger at its bottom than the upper open end of the main vessel, and the enveloping-sheet arranged to be wet by the contents of the water-vessel and extended past the space between the said vessels, whereby to protect the contents of the main vessel" (lines 79-92).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Stiles, Frederick
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Engine.
Patent for general "improvements in engines, and while one feature of our invention is adapted for use on all styles of engines, the invention in the complete form ...is especially suited for use on locomotive engines designed to exert high tractive power and to attain high speeds" (lines 12-19).
Date:
February 19, 1895
Creator:
Davis, Philip Z. & Barton, Alexander M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Feed-Screw for Rock-Drills.
Patent for "drills for the cutting or drilling of stone, and has for its primary object the taking up of wear in the worm-screws upon which such drills are usually mounted." (Lines 10-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 3, 1896
Creator:
Keyser, William Almond
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History