Sand Ridge 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

Elwood 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

Leona Southwest 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

Normangee 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

Hilltop Lakes 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

Iola 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: 1989
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

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

North Zulch 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: 1989
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Canary 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: 1989
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Steep Branch 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

Bedias 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

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

Connor 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

Madisonville 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
Soil Survey of Madison County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Madison 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 Madison County, Texas.
Date: 1994
Creator: Neitsch, Conrad L.; Castille, Joseph J. & Jurena, Maurice R.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

General Soil Map, Madison 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 1:190,080
Date: 1994
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3045, Chapter 1152 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3045, Chapter 1152

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the juvenile boards of Grimes, Leon, Madison, and Walker Counties.
Date: June 18, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 128 (open access)

79th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Concurrent Resolution 128

Concurrent resolution introduced by the Texas House of Representatives and Senate designating Madisonville the Mushroom Capital of Texas.
Date: May 24, 2005
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a new and improved plow. This design "consists in the point made with a land-side, fitting into a rabbet in the land-side of the standard, and made thicker and deeper than said rabbet, so as to project beyond and below said land-side to receive the wear" (para. 5).
Date: December 11, 1877
Creator: Dawson, William Wyatt
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baling Press. (open access)

Baling Press.

Patent for a new and improved baling press. This design consists in "the frame, drum, the power-ropes to be wound thereon, and the platen combined with the levers having rounded upper and lower ends to operate in rounded sockets in the said platen and the upper part of the frame and the toggle-joints near the centers of the said levers, comprising the rounded projection on one of the members adapted to fit a corresponding cavity or recess in the adjacent end of the other member, the lateral ears and the pin to pass through said ears and the rounded projection" (lines 12-23).
Date: May 15, 1888
Creator: Bartle, John Nelson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Railway Signal. (open access)

Automatic Railway Signal.

Patent for a new and improved railroad signal. This design, "[w]hen the wheels of a passing train come in contact with the spring and bent end of the lever . . . said end is lowered or depressed, causing the movement in the same direction of the outer end of said lever, which, through the agency of the wire, will cause the ringing or sounding of the gong or bell as the wheels . . . come in contact with the end of the lever. . . .[A]fter the wheels of the last car of a train have passed the point where the lever is located, said lever will be returned to its normal position by means of the coil-spring" (lines 57-71).
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Ross, Albert James & Darter, John T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cultivator. (open access)

Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved cultivator. This design "is to produce . . . cultivators [that] can be adjusted laterally in relation to each other and turned at any desirable angle, and in which the frame and the beam can be made to stand at any desired angle to each other" (lines 17-23). It consists in "a semicircular frame, two vertical plates secured to the ends of the said frame and having their upper edges serrated, blocks placed between the plates, the plates, bolts for clamping them to opposite edges of the vertical plates, and the cultivators which pass through the plates and the beam" (lines 8-15).
Date: December 16, 1890
Creator: Ford, John Owen
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH. (open access)

COMPOSITION FOR WHITEWASH.

Patent for formula used in whitewashing homes, walls, fences. etc. with ingredients and instructions included.
Date: April 20, 1880
Creator: Kerr, Archibald Henderson
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton Planter. (open access)

Corn or Cotton Planter.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and efficient adjustable corn or cotton planter. It has a frame, ground-wheel, furrow opening and closing apparatuses, a hopper, seeding devices, a crank-arm, an agitator shift, a set-screw, a crank-pin, and bearings on the sides of the hopper.
Date: December 4, 1894
Creator: Brown, Mathias
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History