US Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District VCP

This collection is referred to as “Blue Springs Lake Project 1983–1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, file folders, and box labels. The extent of this collection is seventeen (17) linear inches. The documents in this investigation include paper and photographic documents categorized as Field, Analysis, and Report Records. The Field Records include field notebooks, feature forms with hand drawn feature maps, and unit and block level summary forms. Photographic...

The Coffey Site 1970-1975 project‘s records include information gleaned from archaeological work performed by the University of Kansas in the Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Kansas from 1970 to 1975. Specifically, the project includes artifact catalogs associated primarily with the Coffey Site (14PO1), but also contains other artifact analysis data from sites in Pottawatomie and Riley Counties, Kansas. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and...

The Harry S. Truman Reservoir 1961–1993 Empty Bags investigation was created during a project to bring several USACE, Kansas City District collections up to federal curation standards prior to receipt of the collections by the St. Louis VCP. During this project, the original artifact bags were not kept with the associated artifacts. In 2012, the USACE, Kansas City District requested that the St. Louis VCP create a catalog of bag labels. Although all of the investigation’s bags were presumed to...

This collection is referred to as Harry S. Truman Reservoir Excess Tracts Survey 1987. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one and a half (1.5) linear inches. The investigation consisted of administrative, field, analysis, and report records. The documents included a delivery order, a bailment agreement, a field notebook, notes, daily survey logs, a site analysis file, and draft and final reports with...

The Long Branch Lake Survey 1974–1978 was authorized under the Flood Control Act of 1965 (Grantham 1986:1). The investigation was initiated because the construction of Long Branch Lake would directly impact and result in the loss of significant archaeological data. Since preservation was unfeasible, the USACE, Kansas City District, contracted with Northeast Missouri State University to recover archaeological data in order to mitigate the effects of construction. Between the summer of 1974 and...

There is no report or documentation associated with this investigation. The VCP could not determine why the investigation was initiated, who the investigating organization was, who supervised the fieldwork, and when the fieldwork was conducted. It is possible that this unprovenienced material consists of several small investigations that have since lost their identifying project information. The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and...

The Red Letter Shelter (23JA1703) is a small rockshelter with associated historic features. The site is located on a southeast facing slope above an unnamed tributary of the East Fork of the Little Blue River in Jackson County. The property is part of Blue Springs Lake, owned by the USACE Kansas City District, and is operated by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation. Due to the fact that vandalism was identified at the rockshelter, Jackson County Parks and Recreation conducted a pedestrian...

An archaeological investigation of site 23PO309 in Polk County, Missouri, was conducted in 1967, prior to the construction of Stockton Lake; however, there is no report or documentation associated with this investigation. The VCP could not determine why this investigation was initiated or who supervised the fieldwork. An Archaeological Survey of Missouri Survey Sheet for 23PO309 that was available from the State Historic Preservation Office revealed that Rolland E. Pangborn recorded 23PO309, a...

The Smith’s Fork Site (23CL223) is located on Smithville Lake, which is a USACE Kansas City District subject property located in Clay County, Missouri. In 2000, the City of Smithville proposed the construction of a soccer field in the area of the site. A USACE archaeologist visited the site and recommended that further testing would need to occur to determine if building could go below a depth of eight inches. In 2007, the city renewed its interest in building at this location; so another USACE...

This collection is referred to as “Stockton Lake Project 1984–1985.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is four and three-quarters (4.75) linear inches. The records in this collection include paper, photographic, oversized, and electronic documents categorized as Administrative, Background, Field, Analysis, and Report Records. The documents include correspondence, reservoir maps, survey and test excavation...

This collection is referred to as The Stockton Lake Survey and Assessment 1992–1993. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is one half (0.5) of a linear inch. The documents in the investigation are both paper and electronic and include administrative, background, and report records. In particular, the documents include a property disposition voucher, transmittal documents for two archaeological reports, copies of...

Stockton Lake Survey and Wimmer Collection 1992–1993 is somewhat unique in that it includes materials that were recovered from the Stockton Lake area by an amateur archaeologist, as well as materials that were recovered as part of an official archaeological investigation in the same area. The Stockton Lake Survey and Assessment investigation was carried out in the Stockton Lake areas of Dade, Cedar, and Polk counties, Missouri, between the fall of 1992 and the spring of 1993 by Historic...

In 1989, USACE, Kansas City District contracted with Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group (CCRG) to conduct Phase II testing at known sites on the Harry S. Truman Reservoir in Benton, Henry, Hickory, and St. Clair counties, Missouri (Contract No. DACW41-89-C-0102). At least two sites faced impacts from planned recreational development, and all the sites were to be evaluated for eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The original contract listed 26 sites for...