Street Map - Pre Barkers Reservoir

[TexasFreeway.com]

Here's one for discussion...

I am looking for a map of the Barkers Reservoir before the Corps took over the land. HCAD shows a network of "closed" streets as well as an abandoned railroad ROW. SOme of the old street ROW's are still visable via Google maps and others.

[kylejack]

There's a thread around here somewhere where someone took pictures of old foundations that were north of 10 and west of 6, and we looked up some historic aerials. I don't think we focused on the area south of I-10, though.

[kylejack]

Here's 1957. I see roads, but not a lot else going on here.

http://www.historicaerials.com/?poi=10075

[roym]

Here's one for discussion...

I am looking for a map of the Barkers Reservoir before the Corps took over the land. HCAD shows a network of "closed" streets as well as an abandoned railroad ROW. SOme of the old street ROW's are still visable via Google maps and others.

Is the map you're looking at available online?

[kylejack]

Some of those old roads are now a bike path and a walking trail, which is probably a big part of why they're still visible.

[Heights2Bastrop]

Check the Addicks topographic maps from the Perry-Castaneda collection. There is a map from 1919, 1949, 1955 as well as later years.

[TexasFreeway.com]

Thanks!!! That was a big help. The abandoned railroad right-of-way show on the HCAD maps running next to the old Westheimer alignment (Beeler) is actually from the old Texas-Western RR.

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/txu-pclmaps-topo-tx-clodine-1915.jpg