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1919 Map of Humble

Name: 1919 Topographic Map of Humble
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1949
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1949

About this map

Humble stands as a significant industrial and transit center in this 1916 survey, dominated by a concentrated grid of Oil Tanks and a convergence of major rail lines. The landscape reveals the critical intersection of the Houston and East Texas Railway and the Beaumont Sour Lake and Western, driving the early twentieth-century economy of Harris County.

Smaller settlements like Bender and Mt Houston are connected by a network of early regional thoroughfares, including the Houston and East Texas Road and Atascocita Road. Away from the industrial hubs, the terrain is defined by the winding paths of Greens Bayou and Halls Bayou, with local life centered around rural landmarks such as the Higgs School and multiple sites marked Cem. This map records a pivotal moment where the extraction industry began reshaping the Texas coastal plain's traditional agrarian and woodland layout.