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  2. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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    Railroad district (12 total, county boundaries) County; In Texas, the highest level of land subdivision is the boundary of the state itself. Below this are the Texas railroad districts, of which there are 12. These are Spanish grants, surveyed on the "metes and bounds" system of measurement, and are of irregular shape and size.

  3. Railroad Commission of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century. (2005). 323 pp. the standard history; online review; Childs, William R. "Origins of the Texas Railroad Commission's Power to Control Production of Petroleum: Regulatory Strategies in the 1920s." Journal of Policy History 1990 2(4): 353–387. ISSN ...

  4. File:Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway system map (1918).svg

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    This is a map of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway (Katy) as of 1918, with trackage rights in purple and then-proposed lines dotted. Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see any errors. Date

  5. Texas and Pacific Railway - Wikipedia

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    Route map of the railroad, circa 1950s (bold lines are T&P; thin lines denote connecting service for Eagle passenger trains) From 1873 to 1881 the Texas and Pacific built a total of 972 miles (1,560 km) of track; as a result it was entitled to land grants totalling 12,441,600 acres (50,349 km 2 ).

  6. List of Texas railroads - Wikipedia

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    Oklahoma City and Texas Railroad: SLSF: 1903 1907 St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway: Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad: OKKT MKT: 1980 1989 Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Oklahoma, Red River and Texas Railway: 1910 1912 N/A Operated Blossom to Deport, 11 miles Orange and Northwestern Railroad: MP: 1901 1956 Missouri Pacific ...

  7. File:Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad - System Index Map ...

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    This system index map pertains to the Texas Oklahoma & Eastern Railroad. Date: 1915-01-01/1920-12-31: ... This system index map pertains to the Texas Oklahoma ...

  8. Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway - Wikipedia

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    1871 map showing the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway in Texas, along with other railroads. In 1850 the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad was chartered and in 1852 the company started construction. In 1853 the line reached Stafford and by January 1, 1856 the railroad ran from Harrisburg to Richmond. Worried that their city was being ...

  9. File:Sectional Map of Texas Traversed by the Missouri, Kansas ...

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    English: Sectional Map of Texas Traversed by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway, Showing the crops adapted to each section, with the elevation and annual rainfall Date 1904