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[Texas] Sketch I

Description: Map shows Texas coast from Cavallo Pass in the southwest to the Sabine Pass in the northeast, and towns used for triangulation. Includes legend. Scale 1:600,000.
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Reconnaissance of the western coast of the United States from San Francisco to Umpquah River.

Description: Map shows Pacific Coast from the Umpquah River in Oregon to San Francisco, California. Includes text: sailing directions, tides, and remarks. Insets: Cape Arago, Cape Blanco, Rogue's [sic] River, Mack's Arch and Reef, Point St. George [and] Crescent City, Red Bluff, Humboldt Bay, View of Cape Mendocino, Trinidad Head and City, Mendocino City Cove, Pt. Arena, Pt. Reyes, Entrance to San Francisco Bay [Pt. Bonita, Outer Telegraph Station, Pt. Lobos]. Scale [1:1,200,000].
Date: 1854
Creator: United States Coast Survey.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Preliminary sketch of Galveston Bay indicating proposed sites for light houses as authorized by act of Congress of Mar. 3, 1851.

Description: Map shows the entrance to Galveston Bay between Galveston Island and Boliver Peninsula, proposed sites for light houses, water depths, and structures. Relief shown by shading, soundings, and depictions. Insets: "Clopper's Bar" and "Red Fish Bar." Includes texts "Sailing Directions," and "Note." Scale [1:200,000].
Date: 1851
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Preliminary sketch of Galveston Bay, Texas.

Description: Map shows the coastal geography of mid-nineteenth century Galveston Bay, Texas. Includes sailing directions. Insets: "Clopper's Bar" and "Red Fish Bar." Depths shown by soundings. Scale: [1:200,000].
Date: 1852
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Reconnoissance of Sabine Pass.

Description: Map shows the mouth of the Sabine River in Texas at the Gulf of Mexico and indicates navigation hazards. Includes sailing directions. Depths shown by soundings. Scale: [1:40,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Preliminary survey of Humboldt Bay, California.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century land formation, islands, inlets and settlements in Humboldt Bay, California. Includes sailing directions and illustration: View of Red Bluff, Entrance Humboldt Bay. Inset: "Sketch of Humboldt Bay." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and isolines. Scale [ca. 1:30,000] and [ca. 1:150,000].
Date: 1851
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

San Diego entrance and approaches: California

Description: Map shows buildings, roads, observatories, lighthouses, and settlements along the San Diego, California coastline during the mid-nineteenth century. Includes sailing directions and notes. Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings and isolines. Scale [ 1:25,000 ] and [ 1:150,000 ].
Date: 1851
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mouth of Columbia River.

Description: Map shows mid-nineteenth century coastline of Barker's Bay and Young's Bay and the township of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in Washington. Includes sailing directions and tide chart. Inset: View of the Entrance of Columbia River, Cape Hancock or Disappointment E. by N. (compass) 12 statute miles [illustration]. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and depth contours. Scale 1:40,000.
Date: 1851
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Mouth of Columbia River.

Description: Map shows coastline of Barker's Bay and Young's Bay and the township of Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River. Includes sailing directions and tide chart. Inset: View of the Entrance of Columbia River, Cape Hancock or Disappointment E. by N. (compass) 12 statute miles [illustration]. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings and depth contours. Scale 1:40,000.
Date: 1851
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Sketch of the Gulf of Mexico showing lines of deep sea soundings and profiles of bottom.

Description: Map shows islands and bays along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico from just south of the Rio Grande to the tip of Florida, Key West, and the Dry Tortugas; temperature readings east and south of the Mississippi River delta on inset map. Insets: [fifteen profiles of sections of seabottom for the Gulf of Mexico along lines shown on the main map]. Depths shown by soundings and by profile. Scale [ca. 1:2,400,000].
Date: 1855
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Coast of Texas: from Galveston to Corpus Christi.

Description: Map shows coastline of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico from Corpus Christi to Galveston, entrances to Galveston, Matagorda, and portion of Corpus Christi Bays, settlements. Includes text with information on soundings, tides, and remarks. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:400,000].
Date: 1867
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Coast of Texas : from Galveston to Corpus Christi.

Description: Map shows railroads, place names, islands, inlets, and passes; Texas coast line from Corpus Christ Bay in the south to Galveston Bay in the north. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [ca. 1:400,000].
Date: 1867
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Reconnoissance of Sabine Pass.

Description: Map shows the mouth of the Sabine River at the Gulf of Mexico and indicates navigation hazards. Includes sailing directions. Depths shown by soundings. Scale: [ca. 1:40,000].
Date: 1853
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Coast chart no. 107: Matagorda Bay, Texas [Sheet 2].

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century coastal features and lakes at Matagorda Bay, Texas. Includes Cavallo Pass, Lavaca Bay, and information on lighthouses, tides, soundings, and bottom types. Inset: "Head of Lavaca Bay." Scale [1:80,000].
Date: 1872
Creator: United States Coast Survey
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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