The Office of Coast Survey is the oldest U.S. scientific organization, dating from 1807 when Congress directed that a "survey of the coast" be carried out. By 1836, it was called the U.S. Coast Survey and in 1878, the name was changed to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Today the Office of Coast Survey is a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA.

The survey teams, composed of civilians as well as Army and Naval officers, charted the nation's waterways and produced a wide array of reports, survey charts, hydrographic studies of tides and currents, astronomical studies and observations, and coastal pilots. These charts are an important record of the changing nature of the nation's coastlines. In additional to coastal charts, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey produced land sketches, Civil War battle maps, and the early aeronautical charts.

This is the fourth edition of this handsome coastal chart, and presents the entire bay with the city located at its entrance on Galveston Island. Insets of Clopper's Bar and Red Fish Bar line the left border. Features good navigational detail including soundings, shoals, buoys, lighthouses, light boats and more. Sailing instructions and tidal information are located at top right.

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Condition: B+

Issued folding with light toning along the folds and minor foxing. Trimmed to the border at lower left by the binder.