After 173 years, an historic Texas map has come into official hands. After 173 years, ... Texas became a state in 1845. The archives of the Texas General Land Office, ...

Click through to see a number of maps showing Texas, ... The map was released in eight different editions over the years through 1845. It was meant to show off Texas to potential settlers.

A detail from “Map of Texas from the most recent authorities (1845)” is an early hand-colored map of Texas that locates Waco Village on the Brazos River near the Tahuacono river.

AUSTIN — After 173 years, a historic Texas map has come into official hands. Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush has announced that an 1844 map of the Republic of Texas by noted early-day ...