Miscellaneous References and Mentions

While our initial information about La Porte came from various goverment sources (GNIS, US Census, FIPS), we also found mention of La Porte 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 La Porte. We hope that they will be useful to you.

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

SPV's Comprehensive Railroad Atlas of North America - Texas
Written by: Walker, Mike
Published by Steam Powered Video (SPV), 2001
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Texas (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

Road Map for Texas (from Shell Oil, 1956)
Published by Shell Oil Company

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

We found La Porte in these Censuses: 2010-1990. See our Census Page for La Porte for more information.

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

Railroad Mentions of La Porte:

La Porte was mentioned in the following schedule:

Southern Pacific Railroad Time Tables (July 1929)