Credits
Where everything here came from.
Data sources
- Designations, addresses, marker numbers and dates
- Texas Historical Commission Atlas — the State of Texas's official
designation database, exported for McLennan County (county identifier 161) on
27 July 2026. This covers the National Register of Historic Places listings, Recorded
Texas Historic Landmarks, State Antiquities Landmarks, official historical markers and
the state museum register.
- County boundary, rivers, lakes and town outlines
- United States Census Bureau, TIGER/Line cartographic boundary files
(2023) and TIGER/Line hydrography (2024). Public domain. The map on this site is drawn
directly from those files rather than from a commercial map service, which is why it
loads instantly and works without an internet connection to a tile server.
- Positions of individual destinations
- OpenStreetMap contributors, via the Nominatim geocoding service.
Open Database Licence. Two destinations could only be resolved to their nearest town and
are labelled approximate location throughout the site.
- Population and tourism context
- United States Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, and the Texas Comptroller of
Public Accounts. Not displayed on this site; used in the accompanying research.
Images
Every photograph on this site is either in the public domain or published under a Creative
Commons licence, and is hosted on this site rather than linked from elsewhere. Where a
licence requires attribution, the photographer is named below. Where a licence is
share-alike, any reuse of that image must carry the same licence.
| Image | Photographer or source |
Licence | Used for |
|---|
| ALICO Building-01.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | ALICO Building, and Downtown Waco Walk |
| Austin Avenue at Eighth Street-Waco, Texas.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Baylor Science Building (panoramic picture) - Baylor University, Waco, Texas.jpg | Lpret (talk) (Uploads) | Public domain | Baylor University |
| Gas works and Brazos River at Waco River, by Jackson & Knight.jpg | Jackson & Knight -- Photographer | Public domain | Front page, provenance section |
| Waco June 2016 06 (Brazos River).jpg | Michael Barera | CC BY-SA 4.0 | The Brazos today |
| The Legend of Lovers' Leap and An Historical Sketch of Waco, Texas - Waco Suspension Bridge.jpg | Unknown authorUnknown author | Public domain | Historic engraving |
| Armstrong browning library baylor 2014.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Armstrong Browning Library, and Baylor and the Big Museums |
| Waco June 2016 88 (Cameron Park Zoo).jpg | Michael Barera | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Cameron Park |
| McLennan County Courthouse-002.jpg | Myotus | CC0 | McLennan County Courthouse |
| Doris (Dorie) Miller in uniform at Pearl Harbor (10006682).jpg | Emerson Emory Papers | CC0 | Doris Miller Memorial |
| Downtown Waco, Texas (47622943371).jpg | Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States | CC BY 2.0 | |
| Dr Pepper Museum June 2024 1 Waco Texas.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Dr Pepper Museum |
| Waco Suspension Bridge at night.JPG | 10chumphreys | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Front page hero, and The River Route |
| Waco hippodrome 2008.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Waco Hippodrome |
| USACE Waco Lake and Dam.jpg | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, photographer not specified or unknown | Public domain | Lake Waco |
| Waco mammoth site QRT.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Waco Mammoth National Monument, and Ice Age and Open Land |
| Mayborn Museum.jpg | User:Aboxorocks | Public domain | Mayborn Museum Complex |
| Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas.png | Unknown authorUnknown author | Public domain | Paul Quinn College, and African American Heritage |
| "Texas Ranger," San Antonio artist Don Hunt's sculpture of a 19th-Century ranger on horseback at the entrance to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas LCCN2014633944.tif | Carol M. Highsmith | Public domain | Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Waco June 2016 10 (Waco Riverwalk).jpg | Michael Barera | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
| Silos Baking Magnolia Market Waco Texas 2024.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Out in the County |
| St James Methodist Episcopal Church Waco Texas 2021.jpg | Larry D. Moore | CC BY 4.0 | Saint James United Methodist Church |
| Taylor Museum of Waco History-01.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Taylor Museum of Waco History-02.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | |
| Taylor Museum of Waco History-03.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | |
| 1953 Downtown Waco damage.webp | JIMMIE WILLIS | Public domain | |
| Waco, Texas 1892. LOC 75696606.jpg | Westyard, A. L.; D.W. Ensign & Co. | Public domain | |
| Jesse Washington Lynching Historic Marker, Waco City Hall-01.jpg | Myotus | CC BY 4.0 | The Jesse Washington memorial marker |
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