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Reconnaissance of Sabine Pass

Description: This map is a nautical chart showing the hydrography of the area in Texas and Louisiana around the Sabine Pass. The physical features are marked to portray coastline conditions using nautical notations and color shading and outlines. Depths are shown by soundings and marked with lines and numbers in feet. Text in the lower left corner is labeled "Sailing Directions" and gives explanatory details regarding the markings and measurements on the map. It also notes that various measurements use… more
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Reconnaissance of Aransas Pass, Texas

Description: This map is a nautical chart showing the hydrography of the area in Texas around the Aransas Pass. The physical features are outlined and shaded in color (relief shown by soundings and contours). Depths are marked with lines and numbers in feet. Text in the upper left corner is labeled "Sailing Directions" and "Note"; the text gives explanatory details regarding the markings and measurements on the map. Scale 1:20,000.
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps of the World Based on U.S. Expeditions]

Description: This sheet includes three separate maps. At the top and bottom of the page, there are circular, connected hemisphere maps showing the east and west hemispheres, and north and south hemispheres respectively. A note at the head of the page says, "The track laid down on Map no. 1, is that of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, in the voyage round the world performed in the years 1838, 39, 40, 41 and 42. The arrows indicate the directions sailed." Continents are labeled and shaded in color. Geograph… more
Date: 1852
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the State of Texas from the Latest Authorities

Description: This map shows the state of Texas and surrounding areas. Counties are shaded using various colors and labeled. Cities, roads, bodies of water, and geographic features are marked (with relief shown by hachures). Additionally, the map is annotated with notes about the locations of Indian tribes, railroads, and wild herds as well as population and other statistics from the 1850 census. Scale 1:3,400,000. Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. The northern, panhandle section of Texas is se… more
Date: 1855
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton) & Hazzard, J. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps from Mitchell's School and Family Geography]

Description: This map is double-sided. On the front is a map of Texas, with the state shaded in blue; most of the state is in the middle of the page, with portions of the surrounding territories at the top and bottom. In the upper left corner, there is an inset showing "Northern Texas on the same scale as the larger Map" and a second inset in the lower left corner has a "Map of the Vicinity of Galveston City" which has a different scale. The map includes major cities, roads, and geographic levels (relief… more
Date: 1858
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the State of Texas from the Latest Authorities.

Description: Map of the state of Texas shows major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features (relief shown by hachures); each of the counties is outlined and colored. Additionally, the major rail lines are marked with listings in the lower right corner. There are two insets on the map: "Northern Texas on the same scale as the larger Map" in the upper left corner and "Map of Galveston Bay from the U.S. Coast Survey" in the lower left corner. There is also a key and list labeled "Population &c of Te… more
Date: 1859
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Texas from the most recent authorities.

Description: This map shows the state of Texas and surrounding areas including the Apache and Comanche Indian areas, the Cross Timbers, roads, and land "explored by LeGrand in 1833." The map shows major cities, bodies of water, and geographic features (relief shown with hachures) and each of the Texas counties is colored. In the lower left corner there is an inset containing "Texas north of Red River." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Scale: [ca. 1:3,379,200].
Date: 1850~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas

Description: This map shows the state of Texas and surrounding areas with their major roads, railroads, bodies of water, and geographic features (relief shown by hachures). Within the state, each county is labeled and colored. In the lower left corner, there is a key as well as two insets: "Plan of Galveston Bay from the U.S. Coast Survey" and "Plan of Sabine Lake." Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington. Scale ca. [1:3,850,000].
Date: 1855
Creator: J.H. Colton & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[Maps from Mitchell's School and Family Geography]

Description: This series of maps are printed on a single sheet with Maps No. 12 (Texas) and No. 14 (Michigan & Wisconsin) on one side and Map No. 13 (Chief Part of the Western States) on the other. All of the maps include major cities, roads, and geographic levels (relief shown with hachures) and have the counties of each state drawn in and labeled. On the map of Texas, there are two insets: in the upper left corner, "Northern Texas on the same scale as the larger Map" and in the lower left corner, "Map … more
Date: 1858
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of the State of Texas from the Lastest Authorities

Description: This map of Texas shows the state with all of the counties labeled and colored. The map also shows the major cities, roads, bodies of water, and geographic features of the state (with relief shown by hachures). There are two insets: in the upper left corner, "Northern Texas on the same scale as the larger Map" and in the lower left corner "Map of the Vicinity of Galveston City." Additionally, the map includes notes and statistics about the state and population from the Census of 1850. Scale… more
Date: 1856
Creator: Young, J. H. (James Hamilton)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Gillespie County

Description: Survey map of Gillespie County, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing property lines, ownership, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, forts, and bodies of water. No scale information given.
Date: March 23, 1857
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Grimes County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Grimes County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, surveys of land, and towns. No scale information given.
Date: 1858
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

A new map of the state of California, the territories of Oregon and Utah, and the chief part of New Mexico.

Description: Atlas map of the newly formed state of California and the territories of Utah, New Mexico, and Oregon. The map includes boundary lines, major towns, early settlement roads, bodies of water, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:6,969,600] (110 miles to the inch).
Date: 1850
Creator: Thomas Cowperthwait & Co.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Palo Pinto County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Palo Pinto County, Texas, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, land grants, and roads. No scale information given.
Date: 1856
Creator: Martin, Jos.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Territories of New Mexico and Utah

Description: Atlas map of the territories of New Mexico and Utah in 1855, showing populated areas, wagon routes, proposed railroads and explorers' routes, and natural features. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:4,752,000] (approximately 75 miles to the inch).
Date: 1855
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Texas

Description: Atlas map of Texas, showing counties and regions, proposed railroad routes, and known topographic features of western Texas. The map also includes inset maps of the plan of Galveston Bay and Sabine Lake areas (lower-left) and a note on the Staked Plain. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:3,801,600] (approximately 60 miles to the inch).
Date: 1856?
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Haskell County, Young Land District

Description: Cadastral map of Haskell County and the Young surveying district, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: July 20, 1859
Creator: Von Rosenberg, W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Smith Co.

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Smith County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, roads, railroads, and blocks of land. No scale information is given.
Date: 1855
Creator: Willke, H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Runnels County

Description: 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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Youngland District

Description: Blueline print of survey map of Youngland District, showing blocks of land, rivers, creeks, and land grants. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map. No scale information given.
Date: 1857
Creator: Matthews, R. H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Nacogdoches County.

Description: Cadastral map of Nacogdoches County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: November 1, 1857
Creator: Browne, J.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Montgomery County

Description: Blueline format of survey map of Montgomery County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, and blocks of land. No scale information given.
Date: 1855
Creator: Willke, H.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Leon County.

Description: Survey map of Leon County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes rivers, creeks, cities, towns, and railroads. No scale information given.
Date: 1853
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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