A Map of Matagorda Bay and County With the Adjacent County

Map/Doc

4855
Collection

General Map Collection
Object Dates

8/6/1839 (Creation Date)
People and Organizations

James Selkirk (Surveyor/Engineer)
Counties

Matagorda Calhoun Victoria
Subjects

County
Height x Width

33.9 x 43.1 inches

86.1 x 109.5 cm
Comments

See map 2002 for another manuscript copy.

Conservation funded in 2004 with donations from Matagorda County Museum and Royce Pabst Poinsett, Selkirk Island Corporation.
Features

Selkirk Islands

Coxs Point

Linns Landing

Benadito Creek

Green Lake

San Antonia [sic] River

Guadaloupe [sic] River

Chocolate [Bayou]

Karankaway [sic] Bay

Peach Creek Post Office

Turtle Bay

Trespalacios Bay

Live-Oak Street Bayou

Caney Creek

Canoe Bayou

Lake Austin

LaBaca Bay

Marsh L[ake]

Matagorda

Austin

Palacios

Oister [sic] Lake

Matagorda Bay

Powder Horn Bayou

Dog Island

Salt Cedar Lake

Gulf of Mexico

Port Cavallo

Pelican Island

Saint Josephs Island

Main Pass

Espiritu Santo Bay

Caracitas River

West Bernardo [River]

Sandy Creek

West Mustang Creek

East Mustang Creek

Peach Creek

Victoria

Arenosa River

LaBaca River

Navidad River

Texanna

Jonses Creek

Colorado River

Blue Creek

Juanita Creek

Whit Creek

East Bernardo [River]

Coleto River

Union Creek

Wharton

West Karankaway [sic] Creek

East Karankaway [sic] [Creek]

Trespalacios Creek

San Bernardo River

Linvilles Bayou

Willsons Bayou

Trespalacios River

Post Oak Creek

Post Oak Bayou

Turtle Bayou

Kellers Creek

Coxs Creek