Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about East Texas came from various goverment sources (GNIS, FIPS), we also found mention of East Texas in various books, maps and other sources.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about East Texas. We hope that they will be useful to you.

Note: Initially, we were careless about keeping track of where our East Texas data came from. The following list of references and mentions is incomplete.

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for East Texas:
Services available in 1895: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by RailfanDepot, 2020
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

East Texas is contained in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Both the GNIS and FIPS databases contain entries for East Texas. See our Misc Page for East Texas for more information.