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The American Central Rail Way.

Map shows the mid-nineteenth century American Central rail lines stretching from the middle of North American to Nebraska and Kansas territories. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:1,600,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Sylvester, J. W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Appletons' railway map of the southern states.

Map shows existing and proposed railroad routes for the southeastern United States, including northern Florida, eastern Texas, and eastern "Indian Territory." Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1856..1866]
Creator: D. Appleton and Company
System: The Portal to Texas History

Arkansas.

Map shows Arkansas township grid, existing towns, swampland, and Indian boundaries during the mid-nineteenth century. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Arkansas. Land Survey Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History

California [and] Texas.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century geography, counties, cities, and Native American habitation in California and Texas. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:5,632,000] and [ca. 1:6,336,000]. Map comes from Cornell's High School Geography by Sophia S. Cornell.
Date: 1856
Creator: Wells, E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Carte Physique et Politique de l’Amérique Septentrionale

This map shows North and Central America and the surrounding areas. Regions are outlined in color based on the controlling nations explained by a key in the lower left corner. Major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features are noted (with relief shown by hachures). Prime meridian: Paris.
Date: 1856
Creator: Dussieux, L. (Louis), 1815-1894
System: The Portal to Texas History

Castro's Colony, Bexar district [cartographic material].

Map of Castro's Colony, showing numbered tracts of land, some including names of owners, boundary of colony, and the boundary of McMullen's Grant. The map also includes blocks of land, land surveys, counties, rivers, and creeks. The back of the map includes a stamped note, dated April 23, 1964, from the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Jerry Sadler. Scale [ca. 1:133,333] (4000 varas to the inch).
Date: 1856
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chapman's new sectional map of Minnesota.

Map shows counties, township grid, Native American reservations, major roads, and notabale physical features. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Chapman, Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chapman's sectional map of the state of Iowa : Compiled from the United States Surveys and other authentic sources.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Iowa township grid, towns, counties, railroads, existing and "contemplated" roads. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Reid, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chapman's sectional map of the state of Iowa : Compiled from the United States Surveys and other authentic sources [Sheet 2]

Image shows a list of "surveys and other authentic sources" accompanying the 1856 map of Iowa printed by S. Chapman.
Date: 1856
Creator: Reid, James A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Chapman's sectional map of Wisconsin : with the most recent surveys.

Map shows township grid, roads, cities and towns, existing and incomplete railroads, lakes, and rivers. Scale [1:633,600].
Date: 1856
Creator: Chapman, Silas
System: The Portal to Texas History

Diagram: of Tampa Land District: shewing those townships in which swamp land lists have been sent up, also those townships in which lists are in process of examination [Sheet 1].

Map shows township grid, swamp lands, islands, and coast of southern Florida during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes references to symbols used. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: A. Hoen & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Diagram: of Tampa Land District: shewing those townships in which swamp land lists have been sent up, also those townships in which lists are in process of examination [Sheet 2].

Map shows areas of Seminole Indian habitation, township grid, military posts, coast and keys of southern portion of mid-nineteenth century Florida. Includes references to symbols and letters used. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: A. Hoen & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Geological plan and section from the Rio Grande to the Pimas Villages

Map shows geology of the American Southwestern between the Rio Grande River and Pima villages. This map prepared to support the findings of an expedition conducted to help determine a feasible trans-continental railroad route. Scale [ca. 1:1,200,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States. War Department.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Goliad County

Map of the South Texas Plains region covering Goliad County, Texas. The roads to Victoria, and from San Antonio to Goliad, Texas are marked on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: January 1, 1856
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hopkins County

Map of Hopkins County, Texas, including the Prairies and Lakes region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1856
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of America, 1856

Map shows cities, physical features, political boundaries for North and South America, the West Indies, Pacific Islands, and New Zealand; "North boundary of the United States" between United States and Canada, border between Mexico and the United States appears to that prior to Gadsden Treaty. Includes notes. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Wyld, James, 1812-1887
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Eastern Kansas.

Map shows towns, trading posts, military posts, roads, trails, government reservations, mill and structure locations, and locations of Native American tribes and villages. Insets: "Ruins of Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas, destroyed May 21st 1856," "Constitution Hall, Topeka, Kansas," and "Eldridge House, Lawrence, Kansas." Includes explanations and illustrations of notable buildings. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:500,000].
Date: 1856
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Polk County

Cadastral map of Polk County, Texas in the Piney Woods region. Scale [ca. 1:133,334] (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1856
Creator: Pressler, Charles W.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of public surveys in California.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century California township grid, existing towns, lakes, marshlands, springs, and Native American villages. Includes "description of private grants finally confirmed," and explanation. Scale [1:1,140,480].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States Surveyor General.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Runnels County

Blueline print format of survey map of Runnels County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. No scale information given.
Date: 1856
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Spanish-Texas / [J.H. Colton & Co.]

Map showing Spanish Texas including place names, regions of American Indians, rivers and early roads.
Date: 1856
Creator: Colton, J. H., & Co.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the south central states.

Map shows military posts, railroads, cities and towns in Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, "Indian Territory," and Louisiana, and public lands. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,336,000].
Date: [1856..1860]
Creator: Steinwehr, A. von (Adolph), 1822-1877
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the State of Florida : showing the progress of the surveys, accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General for 1856.

Map shows mid-nineteenth century Florida township grid, swamps, prairies, military posts, major roads, cities, towns, and notable physical features; Atlantic and Gulf coast detail and "Indian hunting grounds." Includes references. Scale [ca. 1:760,320].
Date: 1856
Creator: United States Surveyor General
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the State of Texas

Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Inset: Map of the vicinity of Galveston City. Includes text on railroads in Texas, El Llano Estacado, the Rio Grande, the Grand Indian Crossing, and the population of Texas according to the census of 1850. "25".
Date: 1856
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton) & Hazzard, J. L.
System: The Portal to Texas History