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1891 Map of Weatherford

Name: 1891 Topographic Map of Weatherford
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1891
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1891

About this map

Weatherford serves as the central hub of this North Texas landscape, where the Texas and Pacific Railway branches out toward Lambert and Anneta. The terrain transitions from the broken hills of Skeen Peak and Indian Knob in the north to the fertile bottomlands of Big Valley along the southern bends of the Brazos River. This 1889 survey captures a network of rural post offices and early crossings that defined travel before modern bridges, including Stephensville Crossing and Powell Ferry.

Genealogists will find a wealth of early settlement names like Veal Station, Poolville, and Springtown, alongside family-named landmarks such as Burton Knob and Thompson Br.. Industrial activity is noted at Center Mill on the Brazos River, while the presence of the Bear Creek P.O. and the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad near Cresson illustrates the expanding infrastructure of late-nineteenth-century Parker and Hood Counties.