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Soil Classification

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Map of soil classifications in parts of Tillman County, Oklahoma, and Wichita County, Texas, showing regions colored according to soil types, soil holes and tubes, contour lines, and elevation. The map also includes buildings, roads, bodies of water, marshes, oil wells, and fences. Scale 1:6,000

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1 map : col. ; 68 x 82 cm., on sheet 77 x 91 cm.

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Stiles, Arthur Alvord 1921.

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  • Main Title: Soil Classification
  • Added Title: Soil Classification: In the Supreme Court of the United States the State of Oklahoma, complainant, vs. the State of Texas, defendant, the United States of America intervener.
  • Added Title: Texas Wichita County, Oklahoma Tillman County

Description

Map of soil classifications in parts of Tillman County, Oklahoma, and Wichita County, Texas, showing regions colored according to soil types, soil holes and tubes, contour lines, and elevation. The map also includes buildings, roads, bodies of water, marshes, oil wells, and fences. Scale 1:6,000

Physical Description

1 map : col. ; 68 x 82 cm., on sheet 77 x 91 cm.

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Title on Texas Index Map: Big Bend Sheet

"Prepared for the Attorney General of the state of Texas under the direction of Arthur A. Stiles, State Reclamation Engineer by authority of Acts of the legislature. Approved August 11, 1919 and June 18, 1920. 1920."

"Mapped in 1920."

"Contour interval 2 feet. Datum is mean sea level."

Lower right hand corner of map: "Wichita County Texas, Red River Valley, Opposite range 14 west in Oklahoma, Big Bend sheet, Texas, exhibit no. 53 (2)."

Soil classifications: clay soil, sandy loam, hillside loam, clay loam, sandy clay, fine loam, dune series (1), sandy soil, dune series (2), river loam, dune series (3), dune series (4), new soil, vegetation on sand plain, depression.

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  • Accession or Local Control No: HSU-0307002084464
  • Accession or Local Control No: 6.A.4
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metapth493420

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Abilene Library Consortium

Featuring thousands of newspapers, photographs, sound recordings, technical drawings, and much more, this diverse collection tells the story of Texas through the preservation and exhibition of valuable resources.

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Jesse Wallace Williams Map Collection

Historic topographic maps of locations in Texas and surrounding states. The detailed maps include precise locations of roads, waterways, structures and more.

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  • 1921

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  • Sept. 14, 2014, 8:21 a.m.

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  • Jan. 14, 2015, 1:19 p.m.

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Stiles, Arthur Alvord. Soil Classification, map, 1921; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth493420/: accessed May 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hardin-Simmons University Library.

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