Watersheds

Photograph of view of the old channel in the Bear-Hybarger watershed. This was complated a number of years agao by local people. Pumps were installed to pump water out of the fields into this channel. It was being blocked by main channel. It was being blocked by main channel siltation, but now ties in with the newly improved main channel and its functioning well without the use of pumps. OK-4321
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of view on lower end of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel looking upstream near discharge end of channel. This is an unimproved section. Three miles east of Lindsay. OK-4322-1D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of a natural channel below site 3A. Bear-Hybarger watershed channel is approximately 14 feet deep. A small stream of clear water is flowing. OK-4321-5C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel, looking west from bridge on north-south county road. Multiple owners; poor maintenance. Location is one mile below the head of the channel. OK-4321-8C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel, looking west from bridge in northwest corner of Lindsay, Oklahoma.Three miles from head of channel. Flood gates drain low areas in town during high intensity storms. OK-4321-11C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed, looking east from bridge on north-south road. Homer Dacus farm; good maintenance. Location is one mile below the head of the channel. OK-4321-5C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Lt. Governor George Nigh speaks at the dedication of Wiley Post Lake. OK-4454-1.
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of Jack Adair, head of the Fort Worth Emergency & Water protection (E&WP) Unit, represents Soil Conservation Service (SCS) administrator at the Wiley Post Lake dedication. OK-4454-10.
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of the Maysville High School band playing at the Wiley Post Lake dedication. OK-4455-3.
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of OK's 1500th structure, Site # 34, Finn Creek. Workmen for the Holtzen Construction Company compact sand in trench used for foundation drain. OK-4287-4.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Maysville Lateral Site, B3. An aerial view from the west looking east over F. P. site # 3. The City of Maysville lies in the background. This site furnishes protection to the City of Maysville. Site constructed in 1971. OK-3734-13.
Date: October 14, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of aerial view of Site 34, Finn Creek watershed project, located north of Maysville. The lake is Oklahoma's 1500th flood control structure and was dedicated as Wiley Post Memorial Lake on Oct. 22, 1971. OK-4448-2.
Date: October 14, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of view on lower end of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel looking upstream near discharge end of channel. This is an unimproved section. Three miles east of Lindsay. OK-4322-2D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of view of Finn Creek channel from new bridge three miles northwest of Maysville, Oklahoma, Garvin SCD. OK-4322-3D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of image not available. Image is a duplicate of 2019.061.B2.02381.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of a natural channel below site 3A. Bear-Hybarger watershed channel is approximately 14 feet deep. A small stream of clear water is flowing. OK-4321-6C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of the view from the junction of the Bear-Hybarger watershed channel improvement project where the north channel flows in from McClain County to the main channel four miles from head of this channel. OK-4321-13C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Bear-Hybarger watershed channel, looking east from bridge in the northwest corner of Lindsay, Oklahoma. Three miles from head of channel, shows grazing maintennence. OK-4321-10C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Dan Croom (left) and Paul Copeland (right), information specialist and district conservationist at Pauls Valley, respectively, look over plant for the Bear Hybarger creek channel. Under main highway bridge northeast of Lindsay, Oklahoma. OK-4321-16C.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Lloyd Lynch, Construction In spector, Davis Project Office, computes yardage on Site # 34, Finn Creek. OK-4376-1.
Date: March 26, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Hadley Meinders (L), District Conservationist, Purcell, and Bobby Davis, Project Engineer, Davis Project Office, examine plans for Wiley Post Memorial Lake. OK-4376-13.
Date: August 25, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Hadley Meinders (L), District Conservationist, Purcell, and Bobby Davis, Project Engineer, Davis Project Office, prepare to make compaction tests of Site # 34, Finn Creek. OK-4376-7.
Date: August 25, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of R.C. Longmire introduces widow and brother of Wiley Post at dedication of Lake named in his honor. OK-4465-8.
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Lt. Governor George Nigh and Wiley Post family (Mrs. Post in the center) at the Wiley Post Lake dedication.
Date: October 22, 1971
Creator: Croom, Dan F.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History