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Atlas sheet. 
Banquete; post village in Nueces County. 
Bantam; post village in Fannin County, 
Bar ; gap in Mills County Lampasas. 
Barado; post village in Walker County. 
Barber; mountain in Palo Pinto County Palo Pinto. 
Barclay; post village in Falls County. 
Bardwell; post village in Ellis County. 
Barillos; creek, rises in the Puerta Citas Mountains and flows 
easterly, sinking in the valley below Albany. 
Barker; post village in Harris County. 
Barksdale; post village in Edwards County, on the east bank 
of Nueces Eiver Nueces. 
Barlow; post village in Cooke County. 
Barnard; knob, a hill in Hood County Granbury. 
Barnett; branch, a small branch of Sandy Creek Llano. 
Barnes; post village in Polk County. 
Barnhart; post village in Rusk County.' 
Barnum; post village in Polk County. 
Barrilla; mountains in Jeff Davis and Reeves counties; eleva- 
tion, 5,560 feet Fort Davis. 
Barron; creek, a left-hand branch of Pedernales River Fredericksburg. 
Barry; post village in Navarro County. 
Barstow; post village and county seat of Ward County. 
Bartlett; town of Williamson County; population, 957 Taylor. 
Barton; creek, a right-hand branch of Palo Pinto Creek, tribu-jStephenville. 
tary to Brazos River. I Palo Pinto. 
[Blanco. 
Austin. 
Bartonville; post village in Denton County. 
Bascom; post village in Smith County. 
Basin Springs; post village in Grayson County. 
Bass; canyon in p]l Paso County Chispa. 
Bass; creek, small intermittent branch of Kerr Creek Flatonia. 
Bass; village in Smith County. 
Bassett; post village in Bowie County. 
Bastrop; a central county, with an area of 881 square miles and 
an average altitude of 500 feet. The population was 26,845; 
the country seat, Bastrop. The mean magnetic declination 
in 1900 was 8° 30'. The mean annual rainfall is 40 inches 
and the mean annual temperature is 68°. The county is 
rolling and is traversed by the Houston and Texas Central 
and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads. 
Bastrop; county seat of Bastrop County, on the Colorado River, 
population, 2, 145 Bastrop. 
Bateman; post village in Bastrop County. 
Bates; post village in Denton County. 
Batesville; county seat of Za valla County. 
Batesville; hill in Zavalla County; elevation, 964 feet Uvalde. 
Bath; post village in Walker County. 
Battle; creek, a right-hand tributary of Clear Fork of Brazos 
River Albany. 
Battle; creek, tributary of Clear Fork of Brazos River /Albany. 
IBaird. 
Barton; creek, a right-hand branch of Colorado River < 
