
Hitchcock and Alta Loma serve as the primary hubs along the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railroad in this coastal Texas landscape surveyed just before the 1930s. The map captures a transition from organized town plats and rail-side development to the intricate hydrology of the gulf coast lowlands. A network of tidal waterways, including Highland Bayou, Carancahua Bayou, and Basford Bayou, meander toward the marshy margins of Greens Lake and Carancahua Lake.
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2 editions found
1929 · Dickinson
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1929 · Karankawa Lake
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1929 · Algoa
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1929 · Hitchcock
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1929 · Virginia Point
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1929 · Texas City
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1931 · Lake Como
USGS Topo · 1:24,000
1932 · Algoa
USGS Topo · 1:31,680
1932 · Dickinson
USGS Topo · 1:31,680
1932 · Texas City
USGS Topo · 1:31,680