Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of a deep gully where a diversion empties into Beef Creek just north of Apache Indian cemetary. Hubert Murray is pointing to the end of the pipe that brings the water under the road. OK-3011-13.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of an eroded roadside on the south side of Elgin Road east of Frisco Creek looking northeast. Vernon-like soils* with slick spots. OK-423-6. Vernon soils: consists of moderately deep over claystone bedrock, well drained, very slowly permeable soils that formed in residuum derived from noncemented claystone bedrock or dense clay of Permian age. https://soilseries.sc.egov.usda.gov/OSD_Docs/V/VERNON.html
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Photograph of soil slip on a roadside with a cut slope on Chatto Road north of the golf course. OK-3011-12.
Date: March 27, 1968
Creator: Fry, Chester
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History