. ' Preliminary Inventory of the Cartographic Records of the Soil Conservation Service National Archives & Records Service PI 195/RG 114 General Services Administration ' . Preliminary Inventory of the cartographic Records of the Soil Conservation Service Record Group 114 Compiled by William J. Heynen National Archives & Records Service General Services Administration Washington 1981 . ' Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data United States. National Archives and Records Service. Preliminary inventory of the cartographic records of the Soil Conservation Service. (Preliminary inventory / National Archives & Records Service ; 195) Includes indexes. 1. United States. Soil Conservation Service-­ Archives--Catalogs. 2. Soil-surveys--United States-­ Bibliography•-Catalogs. 3. United States., National Archives .and Records Service--Catalogs. I. Heynen, William J. II. Title. III. Series: United States. National Archives and Records Service. Preliminary inventory ; 195. CD3026.A32 no. 195 016.3530082'326 81-3988 [ CD3038] AACR2 ' ' . Foreword The General Services Administration, through the National Archives and Records Service, is responsible for administering the permanently valuable noncurrent records of the Federal Government. These archival holdings, now amounting to more than 1 million cubic feet, date from the days of the First Continental Congress and consist of the basic records of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of our Government. The Presidential libraries of Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Gerald R. Ford contain the papers of those Presidents and of many of their associates in office. These research resources document significant events in our Nation's history, but most of them are preserved because of their continuing practical use in the ordinary processes of government, for the protection of private rights, and for the research use of scholars and students. To facilitate the use of these materials our archivists prepare various kinds of finding aids that describe their nature and content. The present work is one such publication. We believe that it will be of value to anyone who wishes to use the records it describes. iii Preface The first step in the records description program of the National Archives and Records Service (NARS) is the compilation of preliminary inventories of material in the more than 400 record groups to which. the holdings of the Office of the National Archives are allocated. These inventories are called "preliminary" because they are provisional in character. Compiled primarily for internal use, they are intended both as finding aids to help the staff render more efficient reference service and as a means of establishing administrative control over the records. Each preliminary inventory contains an introduction that briefly states the history and functions of the agency that created and accumulated the records. The records themselves are described series by series; that is, by groups of file units of the same type or form, or that deal with the same subject or activity, or that are arranged serially. These series, in turn, are generally listed under subgroup heading~ that indicate their immediate office of origin within an. agency or, on occasion, the functions to which they relate. Other significant information about the records may sometimes be given in appendixes. Another series of finding aids, inventories, have essentially the same content as preliminary inventories but are issued only after the records have been analyzed to ensure their completeness, to eliminate disposable materials, and to perfect the arrangement and description of those retained. In addition to inventories and other finding aids that relate to particular record groups, NARS issues publications that give an overall picture of materials in its custody, including a comprehensive Guide to the National Archives of the United States (197 4 ). A guide devoted to one geographical area-Guide to Materials on Latin America in the National Archives of the United States (1974)-has been published. Reference information papers analyze records in the National Archives of the United States on such subjects as transportation, small business, and the Middle East. Records of the Civil War have been described in Guide to Federal Archives Relating to the Civil War (1962), Guide to the Archives of the Government ofthe Confederate States of America (1968), and Civil War Maps in the National Archives (1964); those of World War I in Handbook of Federal World War Agencies and Their Records, 1917-1921 (1943); and those of World War II in the two-volume guide Federal Records of World War II (1950-51). Records of genealogical interest and value have been listed in Guide to Genealogical Records in the National Archives ( 1964 ), and a major segment of our motion picture holdings is described in the Guide to the Ford Film Collection in the National Archives (1970). The extensive body of maps and charts is described in the Guide to Cartographic Records in the National Archives (1971). v vi PREFACE Many bodies of records of high research value have been published on microfilm by NARS. These microfilm publications are described in the current Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications and are available for purchase. For other publications, see the most recent Select List of Publications of the National Archives and Records Service, General Information Leaflet No. 3. ROBERT M. WARNER Archivist of the United States Contents Page Introduction . 1 Records of the Washington Office 5 General Records . 5 Land Utilization and Resettlement Programs 6 Civilian Conservation Corps Operations 9 Records of the Office of Research and Predecessor Units, 1903-50 10 Erosion Experiment Stations . 11 Hillculture Division . 12 Climatic and Physiographic Division 13 General Records 14 Climatic Section 15 Physiographic Section 17 Special Studies 17 Oklahoma 17 Kingfisher Microclimatic Project, Okla. 19 Muskingum Watershed Microclimatic Project, Ohio 20 Enoree River Basin, S.C. 22 Hydrologic Division 22 Sedimentation Division 24 General Records 25 Reservoir Section 27 Stream and Valley Section 28 Bedload Section . 29 Farm Drainage Division 29 Farm Irrigation Division 32 Records of the Office of Operations and Successor Units, 1933-74 33 Demonstration Projects . 33 Plant Nurseries . 34 Project for Technical Cooperation With the Bureau of Indian Affairs (TC-BIA) 35 Soil Survey and Predecessor Units 35 Soil Erosion Service, 1934 and 1935 36 Conservation Surveys Division, 1935-52 38 Soil Survey Staff, 1952-74 40 Cartographic Division, 1934-61 41 Watershed and Flood Control Units 42 Flood Control Program, 1936-53 43 Water Conservation Division, 1944-49 45 Watershed Planning Units, 1953-68 45 Engineering Division . 46 Records of Regional Offices . 49 Northeastern Regional Offices, Williamsport and Upper Darby, Pa. (Region 1, 1936-53) 49 Southeastern Regional Office, Spartanburg, S.C. (Region 2, 1936-53) 50 Ohio Valley Regional Office, Dayton, Ohio (Region 3, 1936-42) ........... 52 vii viii CONTENTS Page Upper Mississippi Regional Offices, Des Moines, Iowa, and Milwaukee, Wis. (Region 5, 193642; Region 3, 1942-53) . • . • . 52 Western Gulf Regional Office, Fort Worth, Tex. (Region 4, 1936-53) . 53 Northern Great Plains Regional Offices, Rapid City, SD., and Lincoln, Nebr. (Region 9, 1936-38; Region7,193942;Region5,1942-53) . 55 Central Great Plains Regional Office, Salina, Kans. (Region 7, 1936-38) . 56 Southern Great,Plains Regional Office, Amarillo, Tex. (Region 6, 193642) . 56 Southwestern Regional Office, Albuquerque, N.Mex. (Region 8, 193642; Region 6, 1942-53) 57 Pacific Northwest Regional Office, Spokane, Wash. (Region 11, 1936-38; Region 9, 193942) 58 Pacific Southwest Regional Offices, Santa Paula and Berkeley, Calif. (Region 10, 193642) 58 Pacific Regional Office, Portland, Oreg. (Region 7, 1942-53) . 59 Appendixes: A. Organizational Outlines of the Soil Conservation Service, 1935-70 (Adopted From SCS Organizational Charts and Lists) . 61 B. Regional Organization of the Soil Conservation Service, 1936-53 63 C. Land Acquisition Division Project Maps, Books 1-53 (Entry 10) 68 D. Land Utilization Project Maps (Loose) (Entry 11) . 82 E. Problem Area and Land Use Planning Maps Prepared in Connection With the Land Utilization Program (Entry 18) . 91 F. Maps Relating to Oklahoma Geography and History (Entry 57) . 93 G. Map File of C. F. Dohm, Kingfisher Microclimatic Project, Okla. (Entry 67) . 94 H. Weather Observation Maps of the Kingfisher Microclimatic Project, Okla. (Entry 71) . 95 I. Land Use, Agricultural, and Historical Maps of the Muskingum Watershed Microclimatic Project, Ohio (Entry 77) . 95 J. Weather Observation Maps of the Muskingum Watershed Micro climatic Project, Ohio (Entry 79) 97 K. Numbered Map File of the Hydrologic Division (Entry 90) . 98 L. Reservoir Maps and Cross Sections From Sedimentation Surveys (Entry 106) . 108 M. Detailed Conservation Survey Maps of Selected Watersheds and Demonstration Projects (Entry 156) . 112 N. Detailed Land Use Capability-Conservation Survey Maps of Selected Demonstration Projects, Soil Conservation Districts, and Counties (Entry 158) 113 0. Published Soil Survey Maps (Loose) (Entry 166) 115 Indexes: A. Geographic Index 117 B. Subject Index 129 Introduction In 1928 Congress began appropriating funds to the Department of Agriculture for soil erosion research. The National Industrial Recovery Act of