General Highway Map Caldwell County, Texas

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Highway map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, and oil fields. Map includes ten inset maps - Uhland, Lytton Springs, Dale, McMahan, Stairtown, Reedville, Martindale, Maxwell, Fentress, and Prairie Lea - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend in the lower-left corner, indicating geographical and human-made features. A hand-drawn line , with a corresponding note, has been made to the map in pencil to mark the approximate route of the Old San Antonio Road. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] … continued below

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1 map ; 45 x 60 cm.

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Texas. Highway Department. 1967.

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  • Main Title: General Highway Map Caldwell County, Texas
  • Added Title: Caldwell County, Texas

Description

Highway map of Caldwell County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, and oil fields. Map includes ten inset maps - Uhland, Lytton Springs, Dale, McMahan, Stairtown, Reedville, Martindale, Maxwell, Fentress, and Prairie Lea - a key to counties diagram, and an extensive legend in the lower-left corner, indicating geographical and human-made features. A hand-drawn line , with a corresponding note, has been made to the map in pencil to mark the approximate route of the Old San Antonio Road. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).

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1 map ; 45 x 60 cm.

Notes

"Approximate route - OSR. See note."

"Note - from Travis Co. Line to Bastrop Co. OSR is line between: Sampson Connell & Jose Seferino Mara Surveys; Pablo Martinez and Albert M. Leavy Surveys; Gideon Pace and James S. Montgomery Surveys - according to Genl. Land Office Map of Dec. 23rd, 1896."

"Polyconic projection North American datum: Control: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and U.S. Geological Survey supplemented by U.S. Engineer's Surveys, Railroad Alignments, State Highway Alignments and Planning Survey Division's Road inventory."

"1963 - 1960 census figures. Highways revised to July 1, 1967."

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  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002083250
  • Accession or Local Control No: 4.B.6
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth492950

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Abilene Library Consortium

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Historic topographic maps of locations in Texas and surrounding states. The detailed maps include precise locations of roads, waterways, structures and more.

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  • 1967

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  • Sept. 14, 2014, 9:20 a.m.

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  • Dec. 1, 2017, 3:45 p.m.

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Texas. Highway Department. General Highway Map Caldwell County, Texas, map, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth492950/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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