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1897 Map of Brackett

Name: 1897 Topographic Map of Brackett
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1909
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1909

About this map

Fort Clark stands as the strategic center of this late 19th-century West Texas landscape, positioned just outside Brackett. The map documents a sparsely populated ranching frontier where family-named holdings like Mariposa Ranch and Hitchcock Ranch were critical landmarks. A rare and notable entry for genealogists is the Seminole Settlement located south of the fort, marking a distinct community in the borderlands.

Logistics and transport are dominated by the Southern Pacific R.R. and the junction at Spofford, while the northern portion of the quadrangle gives way to the high elevations of Pinto Mt. and the Anacacho Mountains. The presence of the Cline and Carbonville R.R. and the Carbonville mine site near the eastern edge suggests the early industrial efforts to extract asphalt or coal from the region's geological formations before the turn of the century.