Item #2311 Live Oak County. Texas.

Live Oak County

Austin: General Land Office, 1910. Large format blueprint map, 53 x 38.5 inches. Some fraying and minor chipping to edges, moderate staining, a smattering of small, mostly marginal wormholes. Rolled. Very good. Item #2311

A substantial blueprint cadastral map showing the state of land ownership in Live Oak County in 1910. Live Oak County is located in far-south Texas, just about seventy miles from Corpus Christi. The plots within the county on the present map are noted with hundreds of owners, a mixture of Anglo-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and various school lands. Hundreds of smaller plots of farmland are organized in the western portion of the county, which had been divided up by various land speculators looking to cash in on the fertility of the soil. Cotton was the main product of these farms in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Portions of the Atascosa, Frio, and Nueces rivers flow through the county, past the then-county seat of Oakville, and southward from there.

"Between 1900 and 1930 Live Oak County experienced a period of energetic growth and development. The number of farms regularly increased, growing from 278 in 1900 to 487 in 1909 and 572 in 1920; by 1930 the county had more than 1,140 farms. During this same period, the population almost quadrupled, from 2,268 in 1900 to 8,956 in 1930. A primary reason for this growth was the rapid spread of cotton culture. Though the number of cattle in Live Oak County dropped by almost 35 percent between 1900 and 1910, land planted in cotton jumped from about 3,800 acres in 1900 to almost 56,000 acres in 1930. The cotton boom came to play an important role, as eventually it extended into most parts of the county, raised land prices, encouraged ranchers to subdivide their lands, and brought new wealth and residents to the area" - Handbook of Texas online. OCLC records a single copy, at the Library of Congress.

Price: $1,950.00

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