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1920 Map of Mykawa

Name: 1920 Topographic Map of Mykawa
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1920
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1920

About this map

Mykawa serves as the primary hub on this preliminary survey, situated at the junction of the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe railroad and several arterial wagon roads. The landscape is defined by the winding course of Clear Creek, which forms the Harris Co Brazoria Co Boundary Line. This 1915 survey preserves the early infrastructure of the coastal prairie, including the Minnetex School and a network of routes like the Houston and Chocolate Road and Houston and Pearland Road.

A significant portion of the sheet is marked as a Preliminary Edition Unsurveyed Area, leaving the southern portion blank. This emphasizes the transitional state of the region during the early 1900s, as surveying efforts moved inland from the primary transportation corridors. For local historians, it provides an exact look at the rural settlement patterns before the extensive urbanization of the Houston area reached this section of the Harris and Brazoria county line.