Soil map, Texas, Franklin County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: September 30, 1909
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Franklin County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Franklin County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Franklin County, Texas.
Date: September 30, 1909
Creator: Kocher, A. E. (Arthur E.) & Lyman, W. S.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

New Hope 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: 1965
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Purley 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

Winfield 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: 1965
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mount Vernon 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

Saltillo 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

Talco 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

Hagansport 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

Mitchell 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: 1963
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Newsome 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: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winnsboro 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: 1980
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, 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 Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, Texas.
Date: 1990
Creator: Roberts, Kirthell; Douglass, James A.; Fox, Richard W.; Galloway, Thomas L. & Thomas, Jesse R.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Camp, Franklin, Morris, and Titus Counties, 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: 1990
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap. (open access)

Animal-Trap.

Patent for an improved animal trap that can catch a large variety of animals, including fish, and does not injure the animals. Bait is placed in the trap, and the door on one end is spring-activated. A hinged door on the top is where the operator can take out the animal.
Date: July 18, 1893
Creator: Crockett, William E. & McAdams, Richard E.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combination Heel-Sweep Plow. (open access)

Combination Heel-Sweep Plow.

Patent for an improved plow that can have "either first a whole heel sweep, or a right or left half heel sweep, second a whole solid sweep, or a right or left half solid sweep, third a right and left turn plow, or a right or left half turn plow" (lines 15-19).
Date: February 28, 1893
Creator: Dean, John Rowe
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Scraper and Chopper. (open access)

Cotton Scraper and Chopper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton scraper and chopper. This design "consists of an oblong frame composed of a front piece, side beams, and the rear cross-beam, provided with the handles" (lines 29-32).
Date: August 13, 1889
Creator: White, John Calvin
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts. (open access)

Instrument for Dividing Angles into Equal Parts.

Patent for an instrument for dividing angles into equal parts and is meant to be used with a beam compass. The "invention consists in a member having a point adapted to be placed at the point of the angle to be divided, and having movable thereon a beam extending horizontally and having at one end a transverse head projecting from each side of the beam and carrying at one end an indicating point and at the other end a marking pencil" (lines 22-29).
Date: April 30, 1895
Creator: Cornelius, Francis W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oat-Cutter. (open access)

Oat-Cutter.

Patent for a type of straw and hay cutter designed especially for cutting sheaf oats that is easily operated, including illustrations.
Date: November 10, 1891
Creator: Laws, John Aderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Saltillo Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hagansport Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winfield Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Winnsboro Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Purley Quadrangle

Satellite image 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: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History