Muddy Boggy Creek Flooding on SH 31

Photograph of Muddy Boggy Creek inundating SH-31 for 3 days, halting traffic. Adjacent farm land floods several time yearly, making cropping and pasture hazardous. Application submitted for PL-566 assistance in upstream prevention.
Date: May 20, 1960
Creator: Brown, G. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Flood Plain

Photograph of silt and debris deposits on Sugar Creek flood plain after 4 to 6 inches of rain falling in 30 to 45 minutes. Bridge located north of Alfred Dorsey's home and crosses Sugar Creek.
Date: July 27, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Bottom Silt Deposits

Photograph of Sugar Creek bottom showing silt deposit after 4 to 6" rain that fell in 30 to 45 minutes on evening of 6/25/1961.
Date: July 27, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Damage Site #12

Photograph of bridge approach out below proposed site 12, west of Carl Lindley's home. 4 to 6" rain fell on evening of 6/25/1961
Date: July 25, 1961
Creator: Prickett, B. P.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Watershed

Photograph of diversion terrace constructed as part of the critical gully treatment on area 205, Sugar Creek Watershed of the Washita River. First of a series.
Date: January 19, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. N.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Area 202

Photograph of Sugar Creek. Setting fence on critical gully area 202. Sewell Bros. Contractor.
Date: April 21, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. N.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Flood Prevention

Photograph of flood prevention, J. W. Quinall, Contractor, left, being instructed on planting trees in gullied areas by SCS Forester Herb Wells, right, as Bill Trompler, State Forester, looks on.
Date: January 9, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. N.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sugar Creek Gully Treatment

Photograph of men seeding grass on area 204, gully treatment on Sugar Creek of the Washita River. SCS Inspector Eddie Day on the drill.
Date: January 18, 1961
Creator: Wall, R. N.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Sloughing-off Damage

Photograph of R. C. Longmire showing how sloughing -off of the Washita River has damaged his farm by destroying valuable bottomland.
Date: 1960-09-XX
Creator: Lowe, Sam D.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Flood Protection Program Kickapoo Sandy

Photograph of E. A. Harrison, representative of the local conservancy district; Bobby Davis, SCS Project Engineer; and P. E. Traylor, Davis Agent, Santa Fe Railway Co. , discussing flood prevention program on the Washita River Project. Background show trestle to be widened as part of the Big John Creek channel improvement work inthe Kickapoo Sandy Watershed project.
Date: December 13, 1967
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek Recreation Facility

Photograph of Wildhorse Creek recreational facilities on this multipurpose flood prevention reservoir, completed in 1957. Consisting of barges, boats and docks all privately owned.
Date: October 9, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Gully to be Shaped

Photograph of gully to be shaped. K. E. Kelly in gully. Depth 17' - 45' top. Soil unit 6w-BD-4
Date: April 24, 1961
Creator: Collins, F. W.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of Washita Watershed - Wildhorse Creek channel at the first section line crossing below Lake Humpreys on site 22. Only site 22 was discharging into creek above this location. At this time site 22 had a 5 foot rise over the principal spillway. Principal spillway is a 36 inch pipe.
Date: July 7, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Watershed

Photograph of Washita Watershed, Wildhorse Creek site 22. Principal spillway is concrete pipe under the dam. At back toe of dam steel, galvanized, corrugated, 8 guage, asphalt coated culvert pipe was substituted for concrete pipe. The culvert pipe is leaking at joint, rivets, and seams. There was some vibration on the last joint of culvert pipe.
Date: July 16, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Sallisaw Creek

Photograph of watershed, Sallisaw Creek site 23. Photo taken downstream lookin gup stream.
Date: October 27, 1961
Creator: Bryan, Hugo
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of Washita Watershed benefits. Cattle grazing on dam and surrounding Area Site 17, Wildhorse Creek. Excellent stand of grass on dam and spillway.
Date: October 12, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Pat
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Watershed Waterway

Photograph of waterway. This gully was a critical silt source area on the flood plain of Wildhorse Watershed. Gully was shaped into a watersay and a pond was built at the head of it with a pipe in it (Ok-14131-3 & 4). Waterway will be needed this fall and sprigged with rows 18' apart, and fertilized. Soil is 7s-C-13.
Date: August 4, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Patrick L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita River Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention

Photograph of agronomy - L. L. Humphreys, president of the Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention Asso. , inspecting a field of maize below Site 34 (in background). Head had just come out of the boot and shoul make a good yield. His field has been leveled twice from the Site above. This is another of the benefits derived from a program such as this.
Date: August 28, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Agronomy

Photograph of L. L. Humphreys, president of Wildhorse Creek Flood Prevention Assoc. , showing Lee J. Cerillo silage being put up by :Doc: Ely (in background). Mr. Cerillo is with the Ayer & Son Advertising Agency, Philadelphia, Pa. and was touring the watershed gathering informaiton for an article sponsored by the Caterpillar Co. Silage was cut from a field in Wildhorse bottom and had made an excellent growth.
Date: August 28, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita Watershed

Photograph of people fishing from McCubbins Creek bridge which is on the county road onnorth side of Lake Humphreys. This bridge is across a reach of the lake.
Date: July 4, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Washita Watershed

Photograph of people fishing from McCubbins Creek bridge which is on the county road onnorth side of Lake Humphreys. This bridge is across a reach of the lake.
Date: July 4, 1962
Creator: Brown, Bob R.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Crops Harvesting

Photograph of barley on Wildhorse Creek bottom.
Date: July 10, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Lake Humphries Dam Fertilizer Application

Photograph of recent inspections of floodwater retarding structure in upper segment of Wildhorse. It was decided that the dam and spillways of existing structures owned by the city of Duncan need an application of fertilizer. In picture is city employee spreading 44% of nitrate on bermuda grass sods.
Date: April 19, 1961
Creator: Cummins, Pat
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Wildhorse Creek

Photograph of site No. 34 on L. L. Humphreys farm N. of Velma being stocked with bass and bluegill fingerling fish.
Date: July 21, 1960
Creator: Fry, Chester
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History