Drainage

Photograph of the main ditch on the Choska Drainage District. Ditch has been in place over 20 years. Vegetative cover along the ditch furnishes upland game and small furbearer animals food, cover, and nesting areas such as this. OK-4296-11.
Date: July 12, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Use Orchard

Photograph of DC Marvin (Buck) Wright, Jr., looks at a peach not quite ready for the eating. Orchard production is a land use on many soils in Adair County.
Date: July 12, 1972
Creator: Ball, Lemuel F., Jr.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Drainage

Photograph of Main ditch on the Choska Drainage District. Ditch has been in place over 20 years. Vegetative cover along the ditch furnishes upland game and small furbearer animals food, cover and reating areas. Local residents fish permanent water areas such as this. OK_4296-11.
Date: July 12, 1971
Creator: Ball, Lewuel
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of spillway outlet at site 27 Caddo Creek watershed. Gordon Moebius, soil surveyor, looking. Arbuckle SCD. OK-4322-5D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Bramstead, Bob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Recreation

Photograph of boys swimming at site # 8, Whitegrass waterhole watershed. OK-4321-1C.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Bob.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of spillway outlet at site 27 Caddo Creek watershed. Gordon Moebius, soil surveyor, looking. Arbuckle SCD. OK-4322-5D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Bob.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of the Whitegrass Waterhole watershed: Lake at Site # 2. OK-4319-1.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Bob.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

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 channel improvements on Wildhorse Creek watershed, 1.5 miles north of Tatums. Channel work done in 1968 and 1969 and vegetated in 1969 with Bermuda sprigs. Approximately 3 miles of improvement in this segment, view upstream. Arbuckle CD, Carter County, Oklahoma. OK-4322-9D.
Date: July 24, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of intersecting of main channel # 1 and laterals K and J on Whitegrass Watershed. OK-4319-7.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of the main channel #1 at the intersection with Highway 32 on the Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed. OK-4319-9.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph downstream on main channel #2 at county road south of Iron Stob Road on the Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed constructed in 1963. OK-4319-14.
Date: July 22, 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 the upper end of three miles of improved channel; looking downstream toward improved section of channel with grade stabilization structure. Structure takes out five feet of grade and has 44-foot water entry area. Channel work done in 1970 and 1971. Vegetation completed 2 weeks prior to photo (bermuda grass sprigs). OK-4322-11D.
Date: July 24, 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

Watersheds

Photograph looking upstream on main channel # 1 on county road east of lateral C. houston Bridges fishing at Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed. OK-4320-6B.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of looking upstream at lower end of main channel # 1, Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed, Jerry Mathiews, district conservationist at Valliant. OK-4320-14B.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph looking downstream on main channel # 1 on county road east of lateral C. houston Bridges fishing at Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed. Jerry Mathiews, disrict conservationist at Valliant. OK-4320-4D.
Date: July 22, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of lake behind 79-foot embankment of site 27 on Caddo Creek watershed, Bob Rhoads, DC, at Ardmore, Oklahoma. OK-4322-6D.
Date: July 24, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Watersheds

Photograph of Houston Bridges fishing from a bridge over the main channel # 1 near county road east of lateral C, Whitegrass-Waterhole watershed. OK-4320-12B.
Date: July 22, 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-4322-2D.
Date: July 23, 1971
Creator: Branstead, Rob
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History