Texas Gazetteers

United States Texas  Gazetteers Several helpful guides to places in Texas have been published. These include:
 * Bartholomew, Ed. 800 Texas Ghost Towns. Fort Davis, Texas: Frontier Book, 1971.


 * Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Texas. 2nd ed. Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904.


 * Madison, Virginia and Hallie Stillwell. How Come It's Called That?: Place Names in the Big Bend Country. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 1958.

For river landings, see:


 * Adams, Louis A. Adam's Directory of Points and Landings on Rivers and Bayous in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. New Orleans : W.L. Murray, 1877. Digital version at Internet Archive.

Web Sites
Texas General Land Office