1 August 1973
Goose Creek Valley, Lafayette County, Mississippi, USA
(Yazoo Watershed)
Contents of first Vigil Network envelope
1. Copies of 6 airphotos showing sediment range locations:
MZ-3DD-31
MZ-3DD-32
MZ-3DD-59
MZ-3DD-60
MZ-3DD-61
MZ-3DD-62
2. Table - Comparison of sedimentation rates, Goose Creek valley and branches, 1839-1965.
3. Print, "Cross Sections of Goose, West Goose and East Goose Valleys".
(also see maps in Hurricane and Toby Tubby Creek envelopes; and tables - "Sediment range
data, Toby Tubby, Hurricane and Goose Creek valleys, Mississippi",
and "Comparison of sedimentation rates at USDA and adjacent Corps
of Engineers ranges, Toby Tubby, Goose, and Hurricane Creek valleys," in Toby
Tubby Creek envelope.
Original Records
Original surveys were made in 1936-37 by the former Stream and Valley Sedimentation Research Section of the Soil Conservations Service. Original notes are in books MISS-3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17 and 20 in the National Archives, Cartographic Division, Washington, D.C., accessioned as Records of the Soil Conservation Service, Sedimentation Studies Part I Stream and Valley Notebooks, Job. 477-126, April 1947. Original plane table map sheets are stored in Bay A-236 in the attic of the Agriculture South Building, Washington, D.C.
Airphotos showing range locations, copies of boring notes, and some other related records from former files of the Stream and Valley Sedimentation Research Section, are in custody of the Fort Worth Regional Office of the Soil Conservation Service.
Notes of 1965-66 resurveys are in books MISS-43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51, together with airphotos showing range locations, and other related records, in files of the USDA Sedimentation Laboratory, Oxford, Mississippi.