Texas Landmarks - Tyler County
Feature Name |
St |
County Name |
Type |
Latitude |
Description |
Submitters Name |
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303744N |
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USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
church |
304652N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
lake |
305231N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303516N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
310136N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304412N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
church |
305013N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
304549N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310147N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305238N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304134N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305524N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305329N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cliff |
310008N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303731N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305719N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
summit |
305943N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310025N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305655N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
304644N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303213N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
summit |
305818N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304436N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305213N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305337N |
|
USGS |
|
Boone's [Boon's] Ferry |
TX |
Tyler |
vanished community |
unknown |
Boone’s Ferry [Boon’s Ferry], Texas, a vanished community, once stood beside the abandoned Mexican military encampment, Fort Teran, and on the Neches River, three miles west of Rockland, Texas, in north central Tyler County. Fort Teran, consisting of ten wooden cabins, was established in 1831 to help curtail smuggling and illegal immigration into the part of Mexico that was known as Texas. After the fort was abandoned in 1834, about a dozen people lived in the community. At that time Samuel T. Belt opened a trading post and ferry there, calling the site Belt’s Ferry. By 1871 the community was known as Boone’s Ferry to the local people, but when a post office was opened that year the place was named “Boon’s Ferry.” Probably the name came from Thaddeus Boone, one of the postmasters and operator of the ferry. The other postmaster who served at some time during the existence of the post office—1871 through 1885—was John Wilson. Located at the head of navigation on the river, the community was a landing for steamboats over several decades, ending in 1871. Stagecoaches as well as individual travelers used the ferry. The community, under all of its names, was a trading and shipping point in the days before the railroad reached the area. A rich history of the Runaway Scrape and a folklore of Mexican gold surrounded the community. Other names for the site have been Fort Turan and Duncan Ferry. Sources: Charles Deaton, Texas Postal History Handbook (Houston: by author, 1980), 77; Sketches of Tyler County History (Bevil Oaks TX: Whitmeyer Printing, 1986), 16, 32-38, 292; Lou Ella Moseley, Pioneer Days of Tyler County (Bevil Oaks TX: Tyler Co. Heritage Soc., Inc., reprint 1985), 129-133; 153-155; 207; Howard N. Martin, “Fort Teran,” in The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 2 (Austin:TSHA, 1996), 1120-1121. |
Julia Cauble Smith |
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305747N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304608N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305302N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
lake |
304640N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305008N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305007N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304557N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304442N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310314N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304905N |
See Doucette, TX. |
Julia Cauble Smith |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310110N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
310017N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303123N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305534N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305624N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305311N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305217N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305428N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304659N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305640N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304748N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
airport |
303730N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305930N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305501N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305223N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305838N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305140N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304733N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304905N |
Located on U.S. Highway 69 and the Southern Pacific Railroad three miles north of Woodville, Texas, in central Tyler County. First interest in the area around Doucette came in 1834 when Elijah Hanks was given a land grant there. During the period of Reconstruction, the people of Tyler County suffered economically from high taxes and from the loss of the labor force that had grown profitable cotton prior to the Civil War. In seeking to build a new economy, small entrepreneurs turned their attention to the abundant timber supply of the county. However, no form of transportation existed in the backwoods to move lumber to market. To solve the problem, a railroad was constructed in 1882 and by 1890 nineteen sawmills operated in Tyler County. In 1891 Alva Carrolls constructed a sawmill and the community that sprang up there was called Carrolls’ Switch. Carrolls sold his sawmill the next year to William McCready, a man identified only as Mr. Bodev, and Pete Doucette, who renamed the village for himself. In 1893 a post office was created and McCready became the postmaster. A short time later McCready and his partners sold their operation to Samuel Fain Carter and J. P. Carter, who operated as the Emporia Lumber Company until 1906. At that time Emporia sold its interest at Doucette to Thompson Lumber Company and Doucette became a sawmill company town. Although the sawmill at Doucette burned to the ground in 1908, it was rebuilt. Thompson sold its holdings at Doucette to Fidelity Lumber Company, the predecessor of Long-Bell Lumber Company, in 1911. During the nearly half-century ownership of Long-Bell, Doucette grew into a typical sawmill company town. In the 1920s population climbed to 1,800 only to decline to 500 in the Great Depression of the 1930s, when all lumber companies and their towns suffered. In prosperous times and like most company towns, Doucette had a railroad station, a school, a commissary with a drugstore, a community center for union church services and lodge meetings, a baseball field, and a clinic with a doctor. In 1944, with the day of virgin timber passed, the Doucette sawmill closed. In 1956 International Paper Company bought out Long-Bell and in the early 1960s International still had an office and yard at Doucette. From the 1940s to the late 1960s population settled around 250, and in the 1970s through the 1990s about 130 people and four to seven businesses made up the village that prospered as a company town and survived after the virgin timber was "cut out." Sources: James E. Wheat and Josiah Wheat, "Sawmill Days," in Sketches of Tyler County History (Bevil Oaks, TX: Tyler Co. Sesquicentennial Committee, 1986), 145-153; Megan Biesele, “Doucette, Texas,” in The New Handbook of Texas, Vol. 2 (Austin: TSHA, 1996), 686; Lou Ella Moseley, Pioneer Days of Tyler County (Bevil Oaks, TX: Tyler Co. Heritage Soc., Inc., reprint 1985), 192-194; Henry Gannett, A Gazetteer of Texas, USGS Bulletin 224 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904), 58; Charles Deaton, Texas Postal History Handbook (Houston: by author, 1980), 91; Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad, Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities 1880-1942 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998), 3, 19, 35p, 161-162; 1998-1999 Texas Almanac, 302. |
Julia Cauble Smith |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304736N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303343N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304517N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305624N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305115N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304725N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304829N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304142N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303914N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305202N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305243N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305211N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304333N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305753N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304852N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304520N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305505N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303602N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303857N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304802N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310103N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305927N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303317N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303333N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
303435N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
310104N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303500N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304454N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305544N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305752N |
|
USGS |
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TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305910N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310130N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305757N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305826N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305544N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305241N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305701N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304329N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303317N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303330N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305616N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
303342N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303422N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303320N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304003N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
park |
310143N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305500N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304457N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305214N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304906N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304928N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305604N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303618N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310250N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304611N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304552N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
305554N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304111N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
303431N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
303426N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303331N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303858N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
park |
303435N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305647N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303936N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
tower |
304452N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
305406N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305904N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305819N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304439N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303939N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305946N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304144N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305718N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303932N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304554N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305134N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305331N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305238N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305939N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304641N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303939N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305404N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305616N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305354N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304102N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310153N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310011N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
304700N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303441N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
summit |
310045N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305558N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304144N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303223N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304923N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304815N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305829N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305652N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305729N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303333N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304416N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305340N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305320N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303645N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304847N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304705N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305327N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303618N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305729N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
305520N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305615N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305347N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305724N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
305527N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305748N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303206N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
305641N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305702N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304909N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
summit |
304913N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304243N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304822N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303305N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304614N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
lake |
303212N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304915N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304804N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305508N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310124N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304822N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
school |
303652N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304318N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304627N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303144N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
305411N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
310054N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305749N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305900N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310000N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
spring |
310122N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
310043N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305956N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305036N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310229N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310154N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
summit |
305758N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310327N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305853N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304800N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304137N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305751N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304443N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304648N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
bend |
310046N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304845N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304837N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305346N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
305846N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
tower |
305805N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305239N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
304421N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304133N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304118N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303900N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304010N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305251N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304806N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305510N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304815N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310132N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305009N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310146N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
305637N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
304922N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304212N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304601N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303533N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305823N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305416N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
305751N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305721N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303037N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
oilfield |
303403N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303324N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304050N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305147N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304724N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304716N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304605N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
303509N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304254N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
civil |
304700N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
airport |
304630N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
airport |
304634N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
church |
303359N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
reservoir |
304426N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305340N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
303652N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303617N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304629N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304530N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
310012N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
310022N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304859N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cemetery |
303857N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305318N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305741N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
305142N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
stream |
304830N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
pop place |
304630N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
locale |
304416N |
|
USGS |
|
TX |
Tyler |
cliff |
303147N |
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