Texas History, Genealogy, Old Photos, Postcards, Maps, and Information.Cities, Towns & Comm
Location: North Cleveland, TX 30° 21' 45.5904" N, 95° 6' 5.76" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Plum Grove, TX 32° 11' 44.5344" N, 96° 59' 22.002" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Stanton, TX 32° 7' 45.4404" N, 101° 47' 18.4704" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Martin County was created in 1876, and its county government organized in November, 1884.
Location: Mason, TX 30° 44' 55.6368" N, 99° 13' 50.1996" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Tilden, TX 28° 27' 13.068" N, 98° 32' 37.3236" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Menard, TX 30° 55' 3.6264" N, 99° 47' 11.2524" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Daingerfield, TX 33° 1' 54.4548" N, 94° 43' 18.7428" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Lone Star, TX 32° 56' 38.4684" N, 94° 42' 25.7436" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Naples, TX 33° 12' 11.4372" N, 94° 40' 48.7416" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Omaha, TX 33° 10' 50.4372" N, 94° 44' 38.7456" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Appleby, TX 31° 42' 58.6368" N, 94° 36' 17.7516" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Chireno, TX 31° 29' 57.66" N, 94° 21' 6.7284" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Cushing, TX 31° 48' 52.6248" N, 94° 50' 25.7712" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Garrison, TX 31° 49' 27.624" N, 94° 29' 27.7404" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Nacogdoches, the county site of Nacogdoches, is the best town on the H. E. & W. T. Ry. between Shreveport and Houston.
Belgrade is on Farm Road 1416 in east central Newton County, about one mile west of the Sabine River and sixty miles northeast of Beaumont.
Location: Blackwell, TX 32° 5' 12.4872" N, 100° 19' 3.3492" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Roscoe, TX 32° 26' 45.4272" N, 100° 32' 19.3848" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Agua Dulce, TX 31° 39' 18.4104" N, 106° 8' 19.9176" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Bishop, TX 27° 35' 10.1184" N, 97° 47' 56.9904" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Corpus Christi, TX 27° 48' 2.0988" N, 97° 23' 46.9716" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Driscoll, TX 27° 40' 28.1064" N, 97° 44' 54.9852" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Petronila, TX 27° 40' 19.11" N, 97° 38' 8.9808" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Port Aransas, formerly known as Ropesville and as Tarpon, is a resort and fishing community on Mustang Island twenty-four miles northeast of Corpus Christi in extreme northeastern Nueces County.
Three years after General Sam Houston and his footsore army won Texas' independence at San Jacinto, the trading post from which Corpus Christi sprang, was established on the west bank of the Nueces River.
Location: Adrian, TX 35° 16' 29.2008" N, 102° 39' 54.7596" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Vega 1922. The present county seat [of Oldham County] is located on the Rock Island Railroad, which passes through the southern part of the county.
Oldham had one of the first county organizations in the Panhandle. a local government having been organized, with Tascosa as the county seat, in December, 1880.
Location: Bridge City, TX 30° 1' 14.7648" N, 93° 50' 44.6136" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Orange, TX 30° 5' 34.7568" N, 93° 44' 11.598" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Pine Forest, TX 33° 6' 46.2204" N, 95° 22' 59.9664" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Pinehurst, TX 30° 11' 19.8744" N, 95° 42' 18.4428" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Rose City, TX 30° 6' 9.7632" N, 94° 3' 6.6384" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Vidor, TX 30° 7' 53.76" N, 94° 0' 55.6344" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: West Orange, TX 30° 4' 55.758" N, 93° 45' 29.5992" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Alabama-Coushatta Reservation, TX 30° 42' 57.9564" N, 94° 42' 16.1136" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Corrigan, TX 30° 59' 48.6852" N, 94° 49' 37.7508" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Goodrich, TX 30° 36' 19.7208" N, 94° 56' 47.76" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Livingston, TX 30° 42' 39.7044" N, 94° 55' 58.764" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Onalaska, TX 30° 48' 20.6856" N, 95° 6' 58.7736" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Seven Oaks, TX 30° 51' 7.6932" N, 94° 52' 1.758" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Marfa, TX 30° 18' 28.5768" N, 104° 1' 8.6592" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Presidio, TX 29° 33' 38.6568" N, 104° 22' 19.7292" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Presidio County, formed in 1850, for a number of years comprised the greater part of the Trans-Pecos region of Texas.
Location: East Tawakoni, TX 32° 53' 3.4404" N, 95° 55' 44.8824" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
A fire in the business district on January 1, 1908 destroyed six brick buildings and their contents.
Location: Point, TX 32° 55' 53.4324" N, 95° 52' 16.8744" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Balmorhea, TX 30° 59' 3.5232" N, 103° 44' 40.6536" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Pecos, TX 31° 25' 22.4832" N, 103° 29' 35.6244" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Toyah, TX 31° 18' 53.4852" N, 103° 47' 35.664" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Reeves County. In 1883 the northwest portion of Pecos County, including an area of 2,721 square miles, or three times the size of an ordinary county, was set off under the name of Reeves County.
Location: Austwell, TX 28° 23' 25.0116" N, 96° 50' 31.9488" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Bayside, TX 28° 5' 38.0544" N, 97° 12' 52.9704" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Refugio, TX 28° 18' 19.0224" N, 97° 16' 30.972" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Woodsboro, TX 28° 14' 18.0276" N, 97° 19' 11.9748" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Miami History 1922. Miami is the county seat of Roberts County and has a population of 1,000.
Location: Coldspring, TX 30° 35' 32.7156" N, 95° 7' 45.7752" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Point Blank, TX 30° 44' 49.9992" N, 95° 12' 39.9996" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Shepherd, TX 30° 29' 52.7316" N, 94° 59' 47.7636" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Aransas Pass, across Redfish Bay from Port Aransas in Aransas, San Patricio, and Nueces counties, is named for the pass between Mustang and St. Joseph's islands.
Location: Gregory, TX 27° 55' 20.0784" N, 97° 17' 23.9712" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Ingleside on the Bay, TX 27° 49' 44.0004" N, 97° 13' 18.0012" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Ingleside, TX 27° 52' 40.0908" N, 97° 12' 41.9652" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Lake City, TX 28° 4' 46.0452" N, 97° 53' 8.9988" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Mathis, TX 28° 5' 40.0416" N, 97° 49' 40.9944" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Odem, TX 27° 57' 2.0664" N, 97° 34' 55.9812" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Portland, TX 27° 52' 38.0856" N, 97° 19' 25.9716" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Sinton, TX 28° 2' 12.0552" N, 97° 30' 32.9796" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Taft, TX 27° 58' 44.0652" N, 97° 23' 54.9744" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
County Seat of Scurry County, Snyder is in the seventh county on a direct line west of Fort Worth. Population 2,500.
This county, lying directly north of Mitchell County, was created in 1876, and was organized June 28, 1884.
Albany, the county seat of Shackelford County, is at the intersection of State Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 283, in the central part of the county.
Location: Moran, TX 32° 32' 51.45" N, 99° 9' 57.2652" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Situated on the upper courses of the Brazos River, Shackelford has long been regarded as one of the best watered counties in Western Texas, and was therefore an attractive range for stockmen.
Location: Center, TX 31° 47' 43.1016" N, 94° 10' 50.9268" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Huxley, TX 31° 45' 44.6184" N, 93° 52' 37.6788" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Joaquin, TX 31° 57' 56.6028" N, 94° 3' 13.6908" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
New Harmony is a tiny rural community located about two miles south of Farm Road 2694, thirteen miles east-southeast of Center in eastern Shelby County.
Location: Tenaha, TX 31° 56' 37.608" N, 94° 14' 38.7132" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Timpson, TX 31° 54' 13.6116" N, 94° 23' 42.7272" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Sonora, TX 30° 34' 0.6528" N, 100° 38' 36.3372" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Sutton County was created April 1, 1887, from the county of Crockett, and was organized November 4, 1890.
Location: Kress, TX 34° 21' 59.238" N, 101° 44' 54.6468" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Tulia. The county seat of Swisher County has an estimated population at this time of 1,600.
Swisher County was organized July 17, 1890. At the census of 1880 only four persons were found residing within its limits, and by 1890 the population was only 100.
Brownfield 1922. Brownfield has two banks, a large gin, and a school building.
Location: Meadow, TX 33° 20' 13.326" N, 102° 12' 23.6376" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Wellman, TX 33° 2' 54.3408" N, 102° 25' 40.6812" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Mount Pleasant, TX 33° 9' 24.4296" N, 94° 58' 5.7684" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Talco, TX 33° 21' 45.4068" N, 95° 6' 16.7904" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Winfield, TX 33° 10' 2.424" N, 95° 6' 42.7824" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Ben Ficklin was located five miles south of Fort Concho on the east bank of the South Concho River.
Location: Groveton, TX 31° 3' 17.6652" N, 95° 7' 32.7684" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Trinity, TX 30° 56' 42.6696" N, 95° 22' 31.7856" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Chester, TX 30° 55' 34.7016" N, 94° 35' 47.7348" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
Location: Colmesneil, TX 30° 54' 28.71" N, 94° 25' 19.7184" W See map: Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, MapQuest
