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Atlas sheet. 
Colfax; post village in A 7 an Zandt County. 
Colita; post village in Polk County. 
College Station; post village in Brazos County. 
Collier; post village in Milam County. 
Collin; a north central county, with an area of 828 square miles. 
The population was 50,087; the county seat, McKinney. 
The mean magnetic declination in 1900 was 9° 05'. The 
mean annual rainfall is 42 inches, and the mean annual 
temperature, 64°. The county is traversed by the Gulf, 
Colorado and Santa Fe and the Houston and Texas Central 
railroads Dallas. 
Collingsworth; a county situated in the Panhandle, with an 
area of 867 square miles. The population was 1,233; the 
county seat, Wellington. The mean magnetic declination 
in 1900 was 10° 30'. The mean annual rainfall is 22 inches, 
and the mean annual temperature 58°. The county has no 
railroads. 
Collins; creek, a right-hand branch of Clear Fork of Brazos 
River Albany. 
Collinsville; town in Grayson County; population, 666. 
Colmesneil; post village in Tyler County. 
Cologne; post village in Goliad County. 
Colony; creek, a left-hand branch of Leon River; tributary to 
Little River Eastland. 
Colony; post village in Fayette County. 
Colorado; a southeastern county, with an area of 948 square 
miles. The population was 22,203; the county seat, Colum- 
bus. The mean magnetic declination in 1900 was 9°. The 
mean annual rainfall is 45 inches, and the mean annual 
temperature (58°. The county is traversed by the San An- 
tonio and Aransas Pass, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, 
and the Southern Pacific railroads. 
Colorado; county seat of Mitchell County; population,!, 582 
(1890). 
Colorado; creek, a small stream in southern Texas, flowing into 
Laguna de la Madre. 
Hayrick. 
Bal linger. 
Colorado; river, one of the largest rivers of Texas, which heads 
in the southern part of the Staked Plains, flowing thence 
southeast to its mouth in Matagorda Bay. The drainage 
area is 41,220 square miles; the length, 715 miles. 
Eden. 
Brady. 
San Saba. 
Lampasas. 
Burnet. 
Blanco. 
Austin. 
Bastrop. 
Colquitt; village in Kaufman County. 
Colston; draw, a shallow valley in Menard County Fort McKavett. 
Coltharps; post village in Houston County. 
Colton; village in Travis County. 
Columbia; town of Brazoria County; population, 515 (1890). 
Columbus; county seat of Colorado County; population, 1,824. 
Colvin; post village in Lee County. 
