Resource Type

Carson National Forest, New Mexico

Map of Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, showing roads, trail, railroads, telephone lines, lookout stations, water bodies, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:253,440] (4 miles to the inch).
Date: 1930
Creator: Neiman, L. I.
System: The Portal to Texas History

City Map of Abilene, Texas

Map of Abilene, Texas, showing highways, roads, railroads, and streets. The map also includes schools, parks, public buildings, hospitals, and bodies of water. Includes a points of interest table in the upper-left corner. The back of the map includes several pictures of important buildings and notes on the growth and farming of Abilene.
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Heydrick's Ownership Map of Foard Co., Texas

Survey map of Foard County, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing property lines, ownership, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, lakes, cities, towns, roads, railroads, and oil and gas wells. Scale [ca. 1:48,000] (4000 feet to the inch).
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Heydrick's Ownership Map of Hardeman Co., Texas.

Survey map of Hardeman County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, boundaries, bodies of water, railroad lines, and roads. A legend indicating drilling wells, gas wells, abandoned wells, and dry holes is included in the upper-right corner of the first sheet. Handwritten notes have been made on the map in red ink to make corrections and/or add information. Scale [ca. 1:48,000] (4000 feet to the inch).
Date: 1930
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the dominion of Canada, exclusive of northern regions indicating vegetation and forest cover.

Map of Canada from coast to coast, indicating the type of forest cover with color legend. The names of the types of vegetation typically found in different regions are also included as notes on the map. Scale [ca. 1:6,336,000] (100 miles to the inch).
Date: 1930
Creator: National Development Bureau
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of the World Showing Trade Routes & Shortest Sailing Distances Between Canadian & Foreign Ports

Atlas map of the world, presenting countries in a variety of colors, indicating the distance in nautical miles between Canadian ports and various maritime destinations. A box in the lower-right corner sets the synthesis of these distances in a table. Scale graduated to various degrees of latitude.
Date: 1930
Creator: Canada. Department of the Interior.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Survey Made For Permian Oil Company: Pecos County, Texas

Map of the survey made for the Permian Oil Company in Pecos County, Texas showing rivers, tract numbers, and landholders.
Date: March 1930
Creator: Simpson, J. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Survey Made for Permian Oil Company, Pecos County, Texas

Map of the survey made for Permian Oil Company in Pecos County, Texas. The map shows plats, land ownership and rivers.
Date: March 1930
Creator: Simpson, J. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of A. D. Fulton's Property]

Map of A. D. Fulton's property showing the lane and other details of the property.
Date: 1931~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map of Cienega Ditch

Photocopy of a map of the Cienega Ditch land in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, scale 1:500. The map shows the path of the San Simon River Valley and the land the river irrigates. Handwritten marking show minor geographic features.
Date: 1931
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Map of the Travels of George Washington

Map of the travels of George Washington in the Middle Atlantic region of the United States between 1732 and 1799, with insets of New York and the lower Hudson Valley, Mount Vernon, the tidewater region of Virginia, Philadelphia, and Boston. The map includes towns, colonial highways, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geological features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:2,502,720] (39.5 miles to the inch).
Date: 1931
Creator: National Geographic Society for the National Geographic Magazine
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sectional map indicating main automobile roads between Canada and United States (middle west sheet).

Map of roadways in the Midwestern United States and southern portions of the Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario provinces of Canada. The map includes major towns, bodies of water, and boundaries. The map also includes an inset map of the four Canadian road map sheets in this series near the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:2,217,600] (35 miles to the inch).
Date: 1931
Creator: Canada. National Development Bureau.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: San Marcos Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of San Marcos, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing Guadalupe, Gonzales, Hays, and Caldwell Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and schools. Relief shown by contours (interval 20 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Marshall, R. B.; Herron, W. H.; Stiles, Arthur; McLaughlin, Fred; Forster, William J.; Elliott, Herman R. et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas: Uvalde Quadrangle

Topographic quadrangle map of Uvalde, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing parts of Uvalde and Zavala Counties. The map includes county lines, towns, ranches, roads, railroads, rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown by contours (interval 25 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1931
Creator: Douglas, E. M.; Baldwin, H. L., Jr. & Bannon, T. M.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of the Hardin-Simmons University Campus]

Map of the Hardin-Simmons University campus in Abilene, Texas, with various buildings and streets labeled. Each building in the map has a different number that is referenced in the key located in the bottom margin.
Date: 1932
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Bandera Quadrangle: Grid Zone "D"

Topographic quadrangle map of Bandera County, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing roads, highways, water bodies, railroads, ranches and farms, and landmarks. Relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet) and spot heights. Scale 1:62,500
Date: 1932
Creator: Kenda, Paul; Anderson, Clay; Ladue, W. B. & Drouet, Adolph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Texas Fredericksburg Sheet

Topographic quadrangle map of Fredericksburg, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, water bodies, mountains, borders between counties, and landmarks. Relief indicated by contours (interval 50 feet) and spot heights. On verso: explanation and history of topographic maps of the U.S. and standard symbols used. Scale 1:125,000
Date: 1932
Creator: Gannett, Henry; Thompson, A. H.; Douglas, E. M. & Fitch, C. H.
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country, 1875

Military map of the Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also included. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1875. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1840

Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also shown. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1840. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1860

Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also shown. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1860. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Routes of Indian Raids into the Northern Mexican States and United States Military Posts, 1860

Military map of conflicts between settlers and the Southern Plains Indians in Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico. The map shows trails and military posts (occupied and abandoned). State lines, towns, roads, bodies and water, and areas of elevation are also included. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1860. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Map of Indian Territory]

Military map of the Indian Territory surrounding the U.S. Army post Camp Supply, showing rivers, creeks, roads, military trails, and areas of elevation, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes notes on the landscape, such as the height of a ravine and the lack of grass in a particular area.
Date: 1934?
Creator: Ruffner, E. H. & Hunnius, Ado
System: The Portal to Texas History

Map showing Cattle Trails as used from 1866 to 1895

Map of the cattle trails throughout Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas, used to travel northward to markets and shipping points. The map also includes state boundaries, major towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: 1935
Creator: Loveless, A. C. & Potter, Jack
System: The Portal to Texas History

Sketch of Rath City or Old Reynolds

Sketch map of the trading post called Rath City, or Camp Reynolds, showing gun magazines, hotels, graves, corrals, and a few unidentified buildings as well as ownership of land. Notes on source information is included beneath the legend, in the upper-right corner. Scale [ca. 1:1,500] (125 feet to the inch).
Date: 1936
Creator: Riney, W. A.; Rath, Charles & Moore, W. P.
System: The Portal to Texas History