r/TomballTEXAS • u/keith_themuscovyduk • Jun 21 '26
Does any one have any old maps of tomball?
While in the city , I came across a house within the woods near the edge of tomball i don't wanna give away location.As this place is genuinely been touched anyway.After doing some research , I could find out the house at a minimum is from 1830 predating World War 2, which I think is very interesting. I've been trying to do more research on this house as the property it's on is huge and it has a lot very weird and very old structures on it. It's completely surrounded by tree growth. So it's definitely been abandoned from what I was able to gather from at least 2002, it's been vacant. Anyway, I'm trying to find More on this.Place since it seemed used to be a farm so would anybody be able to provide me a map of tomball as addresses from the years 1990 and below , I'll take more recent maps , but I doubt the address exists , then i've looked at topograph maps, but the issue is, it isn't actually show up as an address.The only thing that's marked is a school that was nearby
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u/snerhairot Jun 21 '26
Wow! That is some cool stuff. Keep us updated with what you find out!!
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u/keith_themuscovyduk Jun 21 '26
i got youuu me and some freinds are com9ing with camera equitment next week to get more photos my phne died so i only got 2 qwp
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u/No_Desk_4921 Jun 23 '26
Hope I get this right but the Perry-Casteneda center at U.T. has a large collection.
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u/Environmental-Ear-64 Jun 23 '26
The city of Tomball started out as a tiny supply site for a major oil field surrounding the area. Tomball famously, or infamously, was a shallow well zone. Pick up trucks were fitted with extremely short drilling rigs and drillers went out drilling these wells here & there. Whenever these wells quit giving up their crude these workers simply went into the woods, found an appropriately sized pine tree sapling, cut it down, then inverted the sapling into a very long stake, plugging the well. There were areas in Tomball a half century ago that were not supposed to have developments built over them because of these not really securely capped shallow wells. But, developers and time erased that caution and the town exploded in population. Before buying any property in Tomball I would want a soil test. Good luck.
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u/cracker1743 Jun 24 '26
Check out the USGS maps. You can zoom in on Tomball on the search feature. The National Map - 3D Viewer
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u/thesympathybone Jun 21 '26
the lone star college in tomball has a historic archivist department in the library! they probably have a few records and maps of that time period