Land & Maps

Rusk and Gregg surveys, 1863 map locations, land grants, deeds and property chains.

Land Records

Patents, surveys, transfers, deeds and mineral rights across Rusk, Gregg and Smith Counties, and into Indian Territory.

No land records published yet

Survey and deed material has not yet been added to the archive.

Land & Community Explorer

Planned research surface

The 1863 Rusk County map and later maps are intended to become an interactive research surface, with a year selector and selectable layers:

Family layers — Howell, Mayfield, Oliver, Leech, Beall, Barnett
Freedpeople
Land surveys and oil leases
Roads, Mount Tabor and New Danville

This feature is not built yet.

Research safeguard

Geographic proximity is presented as evidence of association or neighbourhood context — not automatically as proof of kinship, enslavement or ownership.