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Soil Survey for Dimmit County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey for Dimmit County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, soils, and crops of Dimmit County, Texas.
Date: April 1943
Creator: Smith, Howard Malcolm, 1900- & Huckabee, John Walter, 1912-
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Dimmit County, Texas

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, tanks, ranches, roads, railroads, power transmission lines, Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations, towns, and Texas Land Office blocks and surveys. Includes legend and symbols. A polyconic projection, 1927 North American Datum. "Horizontal control by U.S.G.S. and U.S. C. and G. S. 10000 foot grid based upon Texas (South-central) system of plane coordinates."
Date: April 1943
Creator: United States. Bureau of Plant Industry.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Colonia Self-Help Program (open access)

Colonia Self-Help Program

Information sheet describing the Colonia self-help grant program for use in providing water and wastewater services in economically distressed areas near the border with Mexico.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History