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2000 Census County Subdivision Block Map
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7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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1990 Census County Block Map
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2000 Census County Block Map
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2010 Census County Block Map
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2010 Census P.L. 94-171 County Block Map
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Digital US Topo Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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Digital Raster Graphic Topographic Maps: 7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)
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2007 Economic Census Map
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Boiler-Feed Regulator.
Patent for a new and useful boiler feed regulator, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
September 20, 1898
Creator:
Mitchell, Charles Bradley
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin.
Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date:
March 13, 1906
Creator:
Stewart, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine
Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Perry, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Collapsible Crate.
Patent for a collapsible crate, which is easier to ship while collapsed and cheaper to make.
Date:
August 6, 1907
Creator:
Ivey, Henry Curtis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Carbid-Feed Device for Acetylene-Gas Generators.
Patent for a carbide-feed device for Acetylene gas generators, which prevents moisture from getting into the carbide and causing it to stick to the walls of the feed tube.
Date:
October 19, 1909
Creator:
Weaver, John W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. This clothing pin is made of wire and designed to be used for hanging clothes on a line. Illustration included.
Date:
November 6, 1906
Creator:
Luster, Thomas A. & Stewart, James W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Handling Seed-Cotton
Patent for a seed-cotton handling machine for use in cotton gins which as an improved elevator and feeding system.
Date:
August 25, 1908
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Bottle.
Patent for non-refillable bottles which can be filled and emptied easily with inexpensive construction. Instead of a stopper, a bottleneck pattern can be used which is efficient and safer.
Date:
August 5, 1902
Creator:
Holland, Willie Washington
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
Date:
January 25, 1910
Creator:
Stepleton, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Weighing-Machine
Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date:
March 12, 1901
Creator:
Perry, Frank S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Press.
Patent is for a cotton press adapted to bale cotton and other materials by compression.
Date:
June 28, 1903
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin.
Patent for a cotton gin that has a large ginning capacity (similar to saw types of gins) and also preserves the fiber (similar to roller types of gins).
Date:
August 19, 1902
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for cotton press. This invention "is the production of a press adapted for baling cotton and other materials in cylindrical bales in which the material forming the bales is compactly arranged under heavy pressure in superimposed spiral layers or laps" (line 10-15). Illustrations inlcuded.
Date:
July 26, 1904
Creator:
Fuller, James T. & Workum, Julius F.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Acetylene-Gas Generator
Patent for an acetylene gas generator which automatically regulates the feeding of carbide into the generator.
Date:
September 17, 1907
Creator:
Kinard, John M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Gin
Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date:
March 7, 1905
Creator:
Fuller, James T.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Gin
Patent for an improvements in the combination of devices and overall construction of cotton gins.
Date:
November 27, 1888
Creator:
Brady, Peter Lewis & Brady, William
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
March 23, 1886
Creator:
Farley, John C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard for Railroads.
Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard for railroads that improves on preventing cattle from passing from their enclosure onto a railway track. The invention does not trap animals or people or cause injury, and lies below the upper treads of the rails.
Date:
September 18, 1894
Creator:
Brady, Peter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for a simple cattle-guard that provides an unstable footing for the cattle without injuring them, and thus preventing the cattle from going onto train tracks. The cattle do not get injured when stepping on this device.
Date:
February 20, 1894
Creator:
Brady, Peter L.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Buckle and Back Band Hook.
Patent for a new and improved buckle and back-band hook. This design "contemplates certain improvements in combined buckles and back-band hooks; and it consists of a buckle having, or to which may be separately applied, a peculiar hook or tongue" (lines 10-14).
Date:
May 21, 1889
Creator:
Munger, Ennis
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Chopper.
Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper. This design "consists in combining with a frame a roller of any desired width and size having one or more slots or openings in its periphery, and so mounted as to roll over and crush the stand of cotton, except those portions which enter the slots or openings referred to, which regulate the distance apart at which the portions of the stand are left remaining" (lines 19-27).
Date:
November 17, 1885
Creator:
Greer, John I.; Harper, Wiley M. & Greer, John
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Corn or Cotton-Seed Platter
Patent for improvements in "a combined plow and interchangeable revolving seed-dropper so constructed as to permit of its being readilyconverted into a corn or cotton-seed planter with the least trouble" (lines 19-23).
Date:
February 18, 1890
Creator:
Peeler, John Wiliam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton-Chopper, Harrow, and Cultivator
Patent for an improved version of a machine which aids in the processing and maintenance of cotton plants. Includes description of parts and their use and illustrations.
Date:
October 18, 1887
Creator:
Robinson, John H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Press
Patent for an improved cotton press that construct a cotton-press in which the cotton will be compressed by a continuous operation as it is received from the cotton-gin (line 21-24), the device “consists of two series of rollers arranged in a circle” (line 26).
Date:
April 16, 1887
Creator:
Brady, Lewis Peter & Brady, WIlliam
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History