Historic Texas Water Supply Papers
Researchers and Texas water history buffs may be interested in the online USGS water supply paper series. Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey, some in collaboration with the Texas Board of Water Engineers & later with Texas Water Development Board, this collection of 75 scanned reports includes papers spanning almost a hundred years: from 1898 to 1988. The files are stored on the USGS server and their links are presented here as a public service. For more information about these water supply papers visit the USGS Publications Warehouse and search for "water supply papers, Texas."
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| Number | Report Title | Author | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0013 | Irrigation systems in Texas | Hutson, William Ferguson | 1898 |
| 0071 | Irrigation systems of Texas | Taylor, T. U. | 1902 |
| 0105 | The water powers of Texas | Taylor, T. U. | 1904 |
| 0154 | The geology and water resources of the eastern portion of the Panhandle of Texas | Gould, Charles Newton | 1906 |
| 0191 | The geology and water resources of the western portion of the Panhandle of Texas | Gould, Charles Newton | 1907 |
| 0190 | Underground waters of the Coastal Plain of Texas | Taylor, T. U. | 1907 |
| 0276 | Geology and underground waters of northeastern Texas | Gordon, Charles Henry | 1911 |
| 0317 | Geology and underground waters of the Wichita region, north-central Texas | Gordon, Charles Henry | 1913 |
| 0335 | Geology and underground waters of the southeastern part of the Texas Coastal Plain | Deussen, Alexander | 1914 |
| 0375g | Ground water in Lasalle and McMullen Counties, Texas | Deussen, Alexander; Dole, R. B. | 1916 |
| 0448 | Gazetteer of streams of Texas | Gray, Glenn Arthur | 1919 |
| 0448b | The floods in central Texas in September, 1921 | Ellsworth, Clarence E. | 1923 |
| 0660 | Artesian water in Somervell County, Texas | Fiedler, Albert George | 1934 |
| 0676 | Geology and ground-water resources of Atascosa and Frio Counties, Texas | Lonsdale, John T. | 1935 |
| 0678 | Geology and ground-water resources of Uvalde and Medina Counties, Texas | Sayre, Albert Nelson | 1936 |
| 0773d | Ground-water resources of Kleberg County, Texas | Livingston, Penn Poore; Bridges, Thomas W. | 1936 |
| 0773b | Water resources of the Edwards limestone in the San Antonio area, Texas | Livingston, Penn Poore; Sayre, A. N.; White, W. N. | 1936 |
| 0776 | Geology and ground-water resources of Duval County, Texas | Sayre, Albert Nelson | 1937 |
| 0778 | Geology and ground-water resources of Webb County, Texas | Lonsdale, John T.; Day, James R. | 1937 |
| 0839 | Quality of water of the Rio Grande Basin above Fort Quitman, Texas, analytical data | Scofield, Carl S. | 1938 |
| 0796g | Major Texas floods of 1935 | Dalrymple, Tate | 1939 |
| 0850 | Summary of records of surface waters of Texas, 1898-1937 | Ellsworth, Clarence E. | 1939 |
| 0849c | Geology and ground-water resources of the Balmorhea area, western Texas | White, Walter N.; Gale, H. S.; Nye, S. Spencer. | 1941 |
| 0849a | Geology and ground-water resources of the Lufkin area, Texas | White, Walter N.; Sayre, A. N.; Heuser, J. F. | 1941 |
| 0889a | Exploratory water-well drilling in the Houston District, Texas | Rose, Nicholas A.; White, W. N.; Livingston, Penn Poore. | 1944 |
| 0913 | Geology and ground-water resources of the Big Spring area, Texas | Livingston, Penn Poore; Bennett, Robert R. | 1944 |
| 0889c | Ground-water resources of the Houston district, Texas | White, Walter N.; Rose, N. A.; Guyton, William F. | 1944 |
| 0914 | Texas floods of 1938 and 1939 | Breeding, Seth D.; Dalrymple, Tate | 1944 |
| 0919 | Ground-water resources of the El Paso area, Texas | Sayre, Albert Nelson; Livingston, Penn Poore. | 1945 |
| 0889f | Ground water in the High Plains of Texas | White, W. N.; Broadhurst, W. L.; Lang, Joseph W. | 1946 |
| 0816 | Major Texas floods of 1936 | Dalrymple, Tate | 1947 |
| 1047 | Public water supplies in eastern Texas | Sundstrom, Raymond W.; Hastings, W. W.; Broadhurst, W. L. | 1948 |
| 1046 | Texas floods of 1940 | Breeding, Seth D. | 1948 |
| 1069 | Public water supplies in central and north-central Texas | Sundstrom, Raymond W.; Broadhurst, W. L.; Dwyer, B. C. | 1949 |
| 1079c | Ground-water resources of Atascosa County, Texas | Sundstrom, Raymond W.; Follett, C. R. | 1950 |
| 1079b | Ground-water resources of Gregg County, Texas, with a section on Stream runoff | Broadhurst, W. L.; Breeding, S. D. | 1950 |
| 1079a | Ground-water resources of Liberty County, Texas, with a section on Stream runoff | Alexander, Walter H., Jr.; section by Breeding, S. D. | 1950 |
| 1070 | Public water supplies in southern Texas | Broadhurst, W. L.; Sundstrom, R. W.; Rowley, J. H. | 1950 |
| 1106 | Public water supplies in western Texas | Broadhurst, W. L.; Sundstrom, R. W.; Weaver, D. E. | 1951 |
| 1138 | Geology and ground-water resources of Comal County, Texas, with sections on Surface-water supplies and Chemical character of the water |
George, William Owsley; section by Breeding, Seth D.; Hastings, Warren W. | 1952 |
| 1227a | Floods of May 1951 in western Oklahoma and northwestern Texas | Wells, J. V. B. | 1954 |
| 1260a | Floods of September 1952 in the Colorado and Guadelupe river basins, central Texas | Breeding, Seth D.; Montgomery, J. H. | 1954 |
| 1365 | Saline-water resources of Texas | Winslow, Allen George; Kister, Lester Ray. | 1956 |
| 1416 | Geology and ground-water resources of Galveston County, Texas | Petitt, Ben McDowell; Winslow, Allen George | 1957 |
| 1360f | Salt water and its relation to fresh ground water in Harris County, Texas | Winslow, Allen G.; Doyel, William Watson; Wood, L. A. | 1957 |
| 1426 | Ground-water resources of the Hueco Bolson, northeast of El Paso, Texas | Knowles, Doyle Blewer; Kennedy, Richard A. | 1958 |
| 1422 | Geology and ground-water resources of Medina County, Texas | Holt, Charles Lee Roy | 1959 |
| 1481 | Geology and ground-water resources of the Winter Garden district, Texas, 1948 | Turner, Samuel Foster; Robinson, T. W.; White, Walter N. | 1960 |
| 1652b | Floods of April-June 1957 in Texas and adjacent states | Yost, Ivan Dale | 1963 |
| 1639u | Geology and ground-water resources of Hale County, Texas | Cronin, J. G.; Wells, Lloyd C. | 1963 |
| 1612 | Geology and ground-water resources of Hays County, Texas | DeCook, Kenneth James | 1963 |
| 1582 | Geology and ground-water resources of Winkler County, Texas | Garza, Sergio; Wesselman, John B. | 1963 |
| 1619j | Ground water geology of Edwards County, Texas | Long, Archie T. | 1963 |
| 1588 | Ground-water geology of Bexar County, Texas | Arnow, Ted | 1963 |
| 1646 | Ground-water geology of Grayson County, Texas | Baker, E. T. | 1963 |
| 1539g | Ground-water geology of Karnes County, Texas | Anders, Robert B. | 1963 |
| 1693 | A summary of the occurrence and development of ground water in the southern High Plains of Texas | Cronin, J. G.; Myers, B. N. | 1964 |
| 1779k | Chemical quality of surface waters in the Brazos River basin in Texas | Irelan, Burdge; Mendieta, H. B. | 1964 |
| 1669aa | Ground-water resources of the lower Mesilla Valley, Texas and New Mexico | Leggat, E. R.; Lowry, M. E.; Hood, J. W. | 1964 |
| 1653 | Ground-water resources of the lower Rio Grande Valley area, Texas | Baker, R. C.; Dale, O. C. | 1964 |
| 1779f | Hydrologic studies of small watersheds, Honey Creek basin, Collin and Grayson Counties, Texas, 1953-1959 | Gilbert, Clarence R.; Commons, G. G.; Koberg, G. E.; Kennon, F. W. | 1964 |
| 1669c | Natural sources of salinity in the Brazos River, Texas with particular reference to the Croton and salt Croton Creek basins | Baker, R. C.; Hughes, Leon S.; Yost, I. D. | 1964 |
| 1809h | Reconnaissance of the chemical quality of surface waters of the Sabine River Basin, Texas and Louisiana | Hughes, Leon S.; Leifeste, D. K. | 1965 |
| 1839a | Reconnaissance of the chemical quality of surface waters of the Neches River basin, Texas | Hughes, Leon S.; Leifeste, Donald K. | 1967 |
| 1870b | Floods of April 28, 1966 in the northern part of Dallas, Texas | Mills, Willard B.; Schroeder, Elmer E. | 1969 |
| 1984 | Hydrologic effects of floodwater-retarding structures on Garza-Little Elm Reservoir, Texas | Gilbert, Clarence R.; Sauer, Stanley P. | 1970 |
| 1999j | The water quality of Sam Rayburn Reservoir, eastern Texas | Rawson, Jack; Lansford, Myra W. | 1971 |
| 1999l | Factors contributing to unusually low runoff during the period 1962-68 in the Concho River Basin, Texas | Sauer, Stanley P. | 1972 |
| 1880b | Floods of September-October 1967 in south Texas and northeastern Mexico | Schroeder, Elmer E.; Grozier, R. U.; Hahl, D. C.; Hulme, A. E. | 1974 |
| 2084 | Source areas of salinity and trends of salt loads in streamflow in the upper Colorado River, Texas | Rawson, Jack | 1982 |
| 2252 | Use of the routing procedure to study dye and gas transport in the West Fork Trinity River, Texas | Jobson, Harvey E.; Rathbun, R. E. | 1984 |
| 2251 | Effects of artificial recharge on the Ogallala aquifer, Texas | Brown, Richmond Flint; Keys, W. S. | 1985 |
| 2336a | Simulation of flow in the Edwards Aquifer, San Antonio region, Texas, and refinement of storage and flow concepts | Maclay, Robert W.; Land, Larry F. | 1988 |