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Checotah, 1902

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Checotah in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: February 1902
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Checotah, 1902

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Checotah in Creek Nation, Indian Territory, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: February 1902
Creator: Clarkson's Fire Map
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fame Drainage Project, Grader Constructed, Two-Mile Long Drainage Ditch

Description: Photograph of Rt. Abbie Busha and Katie Fisher standing in a two-mile long drainage ditch, constructed via grader, for the disposal of excess surface water for over twenty-one farms in the area. This benefits 1790 acres, while the excess surface water drains into the North Canadian River. People shown in photo go as followed from left to right: 1. Rt. Abbie Busha, 2. Katie Fisher. The back of the photograph proclaims, "2 Mile long, grader constructed, drainage ditch for disposal of excess surfa… more
Date: February 4, 1943
Creator: Jenkins, E. W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Drainage System Construction

Description: Photograph of Improved Drainage Ditch in Fame Bottom Farms Drainage project (see OK-8709 for view of unimproved ditch immediately above and adjoining these two farms). About 20% of the land in Fame Bottom very frequently produces crop failures due to excess water on the fields. Average crop yields on fields not damaged by [unclear] of cotton per acre; 35 pounds corn per acre. Properly drained, the land in this bottom will produce 4 tons of alfalfa would fail. The drainage project benefits 1790 … more
Date: February 4, 1944
Creator: Jenkins, Elvin W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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