This Texas oil map shows the state of the oil business throughout the entire state less than three years before America's entry into WWII. Highly detailed at a scale of 20 miles per inch, this very colorful map is derived from a base map provided courtesy of the Texas Railroad Commission with data current to March 15, 1938. It was published in the April 14, 1938 Supplement to the Oil and Gas Journal. The legend locates all Oil Pipelines, Gas Pipelines, Gas Fields, Oil Fields, Producing Salt Domes, and Refineries. At upper left is the large "Generalized Geologic Sections of Texas" which locates many formations including those containing oil and gas as well as those to be Known, Probable or Possible "Pay Zones." The huge index to Texas' oil and gas fields lists over 500 fields alphabetically. The map is white with black printing to indicate counties and major towns. All oil related information is accomplished with colorful overprinting. Blank verso. This scarce issue was published by the Petroleum Publishing Company.

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Condition: B

Issued folding with several small fold separations along the center vertical fold that have been repaired on recto with old tape. A few other fold separations in the image have been archivally repaired on verso. Other minor separations in the blank margins have been closed with old tape on both recto and verso. There is some minor show-through of manuscript marker from verso.