Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) Cultural Resource Archive - Documents, Images, and other Data

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a California State Historic Preservation Office letter regarding the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. The GBSD is a very complex project and this letter reflects that complexity. Briefly stated, the letter provides SHPO comment and/or concurrence on the Phase I and Phase 2 follow up information related to earlier consultation. The letter specifically states, 1) that the SHPO has no further comments regarding the built environment treatment plan, 2) that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan Stratton.

This document is a State Historic Preservation Office concurrence letter for the demolition of four ICBM launch facilities on Vandenberg Air Force Base. Demolition was conducted in order to comply with the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a SHPO concurrence letter that is part of the on-going Section 106 consultation for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent Test Program. This particular letter provides the SHPO’s comments on the final Archaeological Monitoring and Unanticipated Discovery Response Plan and comment matrix. The remainder of the letter restates various milestones that have already been achieved and reads as follows: Plans Archaeological Monitoring and Unanticipated Discovery Response Plan...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) Test Program. The letter is in response to the transmittal letter submitted by Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) dated 12 January 2021. The SHPO response addresses several requests and provides concurrence for 1) the project area of potential effect, 2) 12 archaeological sites (CA-SBA-1777, 2159H, 2172, 2224, 2238, 2244, 2245, 2307, 1759, 2876, 3203...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic preservation office continuing Section 106 consultation for amendment of the Memorandum of Agreement for the D1 Circuit Replacement Project. The letter provides concurrence for 1) the amended Area of Potential Effect, 2) the previously submitted determinations of eligibility (DOE) that found archaeological sites CA-SBA-228, - 512, - 513, -722, -733, -740, -755, -756, -757, -939, -941, - 990, -1853, -1865/H, 2128H, -2352, -2471/H and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office related to the Vegetation Removal for Maintenance of Sewer Line Behind Building 856 Project. The letter provides concurrence for 1) the United States Air Force's delineation of the Area of Potential Effect, 2) the proposal to assume CA-SBA-923 and CA-SBA-3107H as eligible to the National Register for this undertaking only, and 3) the project finding of no adverse effect to historic properties is...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to Vandenberg Space Force Base regarding the Facility 1810 Sewer Replacement project. The letter provides concurrence for 1) the project Area of Potential Effect, 2) the treatment of archaeological site CA-SBA-1060 as eligible for the National Register for this project only, and lastly, 3) that the project finding of no adverse effect to historic properties is appropriate.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a concurrence letter from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the Section 110 National Register eligibility evaluation of the Lompoc Landing Site. The Office of Historic Preservation (OHP) concurs with Vandenberg Space Force Base's (VSFB) determination regarding the eligibility of the Lompoc Landing Site. The SHPO office concurs that the 2022 evaluation of the site demonstrates that the property no longer retains sufficient historic integrity for National Register...

DOCUMENT Full-Text California Office of Historic Preservation.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office regarding the Oak Mountain Feeder Electrical Line Replacement project. The letter 1) reiterates the project activities discussed in the transmittal letter, 2) discusses the treatment of archaeological sites CA-SBA-2967 and -2972 as eligible for this undertaking only, 3) the determination that the project will not be an adverse effect to these resources, and lastly, 4) concurs with the finding that the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Gualtieri.

This document is a SHPO Concurrence Letter for the Programmatic Agreement (PA) for the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carol Roland-Nawi.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) continuing Section 106 consultation for the Licensing Action for Narlon Bridge Replacement project. The letter is in response to a request by Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) to concur with 1) the assumption of archaeological sites CA-SBA-707, -708, and -1709H as eligible for the National Register (NR) for the current undertaking only, 2) a determination that the archaeological site CA-SBA-3733H is not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) regarding the Santa Ynez Ridge Road Repairs project. The letter briefly reiterates the project activities associated with the project and the cultural resource effort that was performed in support of the Section 106 process. It specifically provides concurrence for the project Area of Potential Effect and the project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Milford Wayne Donaldson.

This document is the State Historic Preservation Office concurrence Letter for Demolition and Abandonment of Atlas and Titan Facilities on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Gualtieri.

This document is a Section 106 letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) continuing consultation for the Small ICBM Project and Determination of NRHP Eligibility for San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District (SATAD). The letter concurs that the delineation of the area of potential effect is adequate for the project. It then proceeds to inform that Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) that the evaluation of the SATAD is very brief and continues by providing several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) concurrence letter for the Site 32 Cluster Remediation Project on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The SHPO concurred with the finding of no adverse effect for the project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) in response to the submission of a determination of eligibility for the Chute Landing on Vandenberg Space Force Base. The letter provides SHPO concurrence for the determination that Chute Landing is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under any of the Criteria. Specifically, it reiterates that the data potential of the site has been exhausted and is not eligible under Criterion D.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the Section 110 evaluation of the Hansen Homestead (CA-SBA-676/H). The letter provides SHPO concurrence for the determination that the archaeological site is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under any of the Criterion.

DOCUMENT Full-Text California State Historic Preservation Office.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office regarding the Gaseous Natural Gas Pipeline for Space Transportation System Power Plant Project. The SHPO provides several comments in this letter that are explicitly presented as 4 groups of documents. The first addresses the eligibility for sites CA-SBA-549 and -2146. The second addresses the Air Force's project determination of no adverse effect. The third relates to the survey, testing, and evaluation of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) for the B7 and B9 power line projects. The letter reiterates 1) the details of the project, 2) the area of direct impact and area of potential effect (APE) , and 3) the archaeological site (CA-SBA-1049) to be potentially impacted. The letter provides SHPO concurrence for 1) the project APE, 2) the treatment of CA-SBA-1049 as eligible to the National Register of Historic Places for this project only, and...

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This document is a Section 110 letter providing concurrence from the California State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) regarding the determination of non-eligibility of the historic component of archaeological site CA-SBA-658 to the National Register of Historic Places.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Milford Wayne Donaldson.

SHPO Concurrence Letter for Reuse of Minuteman Silo LF-24 and the Construction of a Second RIDT (Relocatable In-Flight Interceptor Communications System Data Terminal).

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This document is a letter from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) to Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) with the following comments on the F-15E/EX Beddown Project 1) SHPO has no objection to the USAF's area of potential effects definition 2) SHPO concurs that sites CA-SBA-964, -1130, -3407, and building 1754 do not meet the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility requirements, and 3) SHPO concurs with the USAFs finding of no historic properties affected.

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This document is a concurrence letter from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) to Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) concurring on VSFB's determination regarding the Francis and Katherine Hall Residential Site (CA-SBA-3530H). Based on the Section 110 report submitted it August, SHPO agrees that the site is not eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under any criteria.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Julianne Polanco.

This document is a letter from the California Office of Historic Preservation for the Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE) replacement of 7 power poles on the Divide power line on Vandenberg Space Force Base. The letter provides concurrence from the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) for the delineation of the project area of potential effect (APE) as well as the project finding of no historic properties affected.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Knox Mellon.

This document is the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) concurrence letter for Land Mobile Radio Cable Along Umbra and El Rancho Roads.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Knox Mellon.

This document is a State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Concurrence Letter for The El Rancho Road Missile Transport Bridge Project on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The SHPO concurred with USAF determination that CA-SBA-1172/704 is eligible for inclusion in NRHP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Knox Mellon.

This document is the Stata Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Concurrence Letter for Distinguished Visitor Quarters Rear Parking Lot Project on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The SHPO concurred with VAFB finding of No Adverse Effect.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Abeyta.

This document is a State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) Concurrence Letter for North Base Fiber-Optic Cable System Project on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The SHPO concurred with USAF determination of No Adverse Effect.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Foley C. Benson.

This document is a report that details the archaeological survey of Sudden Flats and associated canyons. The reconaissance survey represented the beginning of a larger project to be conducted at a future date. The project was completed during the month of August, 1969 and consisted of 1. Determination of size and location of shell middens and other cultural materials in the survey area; 2. Determination and classification of the ecological aspects of the survey area; 3. Minor surface collection...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a report that summarizes activities carried out on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, during the summer of 1969, under a Federal Antiquities Act Permit issued to Dr. Claude N. Warren of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara by the National Park Service as part of early inventory efforts at VAFB. Goals included locating archaeological sites between Shuman Canyon and Pt. Sal in the north and Sudden Flats in the south and filling out...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document discusses the emergency excavations conducted at SBA-1010 the Barka Slough Site. The excavation yielded stratified cultural deposits buried five feet below the surface. The occupational sequence, with an estimated age of between 3000 B.C. and A.D. 500, produced abundant remains of what appear to be those of Canadian Elk, along with Mule Deer and other mammals. The artifact assemblage suggests hunting, butchering, and hide processing activities at the site which was probably...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne. Michael A. Glassow.

This document is a preliminary report that presents the details of mapping 80 sites (maps not included) known in the project area, brief descriptions, and an initial evaluation of the significance of each site tested in the project area. Only 32 of the 80 sites were tested. As such this report was not considered adequate to provide supporting data for a draft EIS for the proposed Space Transportation Systems (STS) facilities at VAFB. A comprehensive final report on all aspects of field and lab...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This report is a document that describes the results of an archaeological survey that has been conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (see Map 1) over the last three years by the author while working in the capacity of Research Assistant and Research Anthropologist for the University of California at Santa Barbara. Two separate contracts funded by the U. S. Air Force and administered by the National Park Service have helped to support an on going archaeological inventory survey of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a letter report for the archaeological survey and subsurface testing conducted by Laurence Spanne on December 5, 1975 to determine the impact of the installation of a cable trench near Launch Facility No. 23 on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The archeological survey focused on the east and northeast margins of CA-SBA-733, a previously recorded prehistoric site. The report also provided four recommendations in order to avoid or mitigate project impacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a letter report that serves as an Archaeological Impact Statement for the proposed construction of an antenna base immediately adjacent to Building 23251 at its western edge. According to information provided by the Federal Electric Corporation, sponsors for the construction, the proposed effort would involve emplacing a five foot square concrete pad to a depth of one foot at this location. No additional disturbance of the surface would result. Construction is located near...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Glassow. Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is a Section 106 report that discusses a project that was designed to collect planning information for location of the Space Transportation System (STS) facilities on VAFB. This study was to include a survey or inventory of archaeological resources within the project area defined as a twenty-one mile long, 3,000' wide, coastal corridor extending from just north of the Santa Ynez River to a point south of Point Arguello. In addition, selected sites were to be tested, mapped, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne.

This document is for visits made on 6 February and again on 11 February, 1976, Laurence Spanne to the site of the proposed location for a new cable trench between Bear Creek, Old Surf and Coast Roads on South Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The proposed route for the cable trench was found to transect archaeological site CA-SBA-549 for a distance of approximately 1250 feet along a line beginning at a point about 300 feet southwest of the inter section of Bear Creek and Old Surf Roads...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael A. Glassow.

This document is a report that presents the results of an intensive archaeological survey of five separate areas on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, that range in size from approximately one to 400 acres. Based on information collected in a 1974 survey of other portions of the base, two sites were predicted to be present in the largest of the areas and one site in another. The survey failed to locate any sites, but isolated finds of three chert flakes and a flake tool in the localities...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Toni Carrell.

This document is for an inter-tidal and underwater archaeological survey of the VAFB Boathouse embayment conducted April 28-29, 1978. This survey was undertaken to obtain additional cultural resources data for the Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO) and to complete a Phase I archaeological survey and resource evaluation. No cultural resources were located within the project area, and additional underwater survey work is not recommended. Intertidal survey was a pedestrian survey...

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Archaeological survey of a 29-acre tract of land owned by the US Coast Guard at Point Conception. In addition to the survey, the scope of work included limited testing with a soil auger of a small section of property in which the Coast Guard wished to install a leach line and field. The scope of work also specified that National Register of Historic Places forms be filled out for any cultural resources deemed eligible for inclusion on the Register.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence W. Spanne. John Edwards. Robert Sydnor. E. A. Jackson.

This document is a study that was prepared as part of the archaeological monitoring program for the DOD Space Transportation Systems (STS) Ground Support Systems Integration Environmental Tasks at VAFB. Explains the general and project, or location specific, predictive criteria and ranking system employed for evaluating the probability of encountering subsurface archaeological sites at each Station Set Location. Includes detailed descriptions of previously encountered subsurface sites, and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Gebhard. David Bricker.

This document is a Section 106 report that was written for public consumption as partial mitigation to minimize the adverse effects from planned Space Shuttle operations on this historical complex located on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Department of the Air Force's Headquarters Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO), now space Division (SD), commissioned a detailed Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) report on the Boathouse along with this report for the public. The report...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David F. Stone. Anabel Ford. Albert Bixler.

This document is a report that discusses mitigation of impacts to CA-SBA-1176, the MAB-2 site, by construction grading of an access road connecting Pega Road with the Missile Assembly Building. Excavation of twelve cubic meters of soil helped to delineate and define two loci at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pandora Snethkamp. Duncan Ford. Anabel Ford.

This document is a letter report to Steve Craig of Henningson, Durham and Richardson, dated 3 July 1980, that reports the results of subsurface testing at CA-SBA-1036 located along El Rancho Lateral Road on VAFB in support of the environmental review process associated with the MX missile program. The purpose of the subsurface testing program was to define the scope of the mitigation required by providing accurate assessments of the depth of constituents and categories of information present...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian Haley. Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a report that presents the results of a site survey, delimitation, mapping, and limited subsurface testing program for proposed construction of MX missile test facilities. Six areas of potential cultural sensitivity were investigated to determine their archaeological sensitivity, define site boundaries, and generate preliminary data on site content. The proposed project will likely have adverse effects on SBA-1153, though more thorough investigation would likely be needed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Doelle. L. Mayro. S. Craig.

The initial fieldwork (1979) was designed to identify areas in which the construction of proposed MX facilities on San Antonio Terrace would result in impacts to cultural resources. Areas of projected impact were systematically surveyed, sites idetified, recorded, and mapped. All the cultural resources identified during this mitigation planning study were sites ranging in size from small lithic scatters on presumed trails to the archaeological remains of major settlements characterized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a letter report responding to Parson's query about the potential significance of sites CA-SBA-1106, -1107, and -1149 located within the GSSI or Space Shuttle Project area. Previous work at these sites indicated that they likely held limited significance, but that final examination/evaluation and surface collection of artifacts should be conducted prior to construction. Subsurface testing was not previously conducted due to the sparseness of surface materials.

DOCUMENT Full-Text WESTEC Services.

This document describes how the Union Oil Company of California is proposing to conduct a geophysical data evaluation of reserved mineral lands within VAFB. The collection and compilation of this data entails a seismic survey of approximately 90.3 line-miles (14.5 line-kilometers). Prior to commencing the seismic survey, an investigation of potentially impacted biological and archaeological resources was initiated encompassing a 50-foot (15-m) centerline corridor involving 82.6 miles (132.2 km)...

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During February, 1981, the Office of Public Archaeology undertook a limited historic background study of a historic ranch site (SBa-1148) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. The purpose of the study was to develop adequate information on the historic significance of the property as part of the Space Shuttle construction program. The study included review of primary and secondary literature sources, a site inspection, and four oral interviews. Historic research...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brian D. Haley.

Archaeological investigations were conducted by the Office of Public Archaeology at sites Sba-534 and Sba-680 in March, 1981, to mitigate impacts resulting from the construction of STS 69 KV Transmission Line on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Excavations in peripheral areas of both sites yielded chipped stone assemblages consisting primarily of chert debitage. Preliminary analysis of these materials suggests that the sites served in part as loci for the maintenance and modification of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John S. Foster.

Archaeological investigations were undertaken by Greenwood and Associates for 12 archaeological sites (CA-SBa-603, 625, 722, 962, 978, 1007, 1008, 1009, 1011, 1019, 1020, and 1111) of which four sites are located on South Vandenberg and the remaining eight are located in North Vandenberg. It is the focus of this study to determine if the Range Improvement Project will have an adverse effect on cultural resources located within the project area. The investigations indicated that one site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pandora E. Snethkamp.

This document is a research design prepared in support of archaeological research undertaken relative to construction of the MX Missile test facility on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Santa Barbara County, California. Archaeological surveys for this development were initiated in April, 1979. The first excavations were performed during the summer of 19S0 and are currently underway. Additional survey, test excavation programs, and mitigation of impact programs are expected to continue through...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a Section 106 report for salvage excavations at CA-SBA-1686 that were conducted to mitigate impacts from the Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) Space Transportation System (STS) related construction of V-33 (External Tank Processing and Storage Facility). The emergency field program resulted in the discovery of a large flaked stone assemblage representing a variety of aboriginal activities including reduction of cores to bifacial preforms, biface thinning, and tool maintenance....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a letter report summarizing results of a pedestrian survey of the Jesus Maria Oilfield improvements project area. A single archaeological site (CA-SBA-593) was identified in the vicinity. Trenching was deemed unlikely to have any impacts, but was monitored. A hearth feature was exposed during trenching. Feature was mapped in the trench wall and a sample of charcoal was collected for radiocarbon dating (results not included).

DOCUMENT Full-Text HDR Sciences.

This document contains the field notes, graphics, and other records pertaining to archaeological excavations conducted by HDR staff archaeologists for M-X facilities sitings at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California (September-December 1980). The original field notes have been edited, supplemented, and typed. Most of the pertinent original graphics, such as profiles, have been reproduced from field copies into final forms and their implications are briefly discussed. However, most of the original...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hector Neff.

This document is a report that deals with the results of a cultural resources survey undertaken by personnel of the Office of Public Archaeology (OPA), Social Process Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, on Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) during June, 1982. A total of twenty archaeological sites was examined and evaluated during Phase I of the Fuels Management Program Survey at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, including seven new sites (CA-SBa-1738, 1739, 1740,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pandora E. Snethkamp. Jerry D. Moore.

This document is a report that outlines an attempt to develop a set of explicit statements for guiding prehistoric research on San Antonio Terrace. These hypotheses fall into three major classes. The first class relates to environmental change with hypotheses linking to specific expectations for the project area, and by extension, to changes in patterns of subsistence and settlement behavior in prehistory. The second class of hypotheses derive from basic anthropological expectations about the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a technical report discussing a series of 12 shovel test pits excavated along both sides of Coast Road on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The test pits are adjacent to CA-Sba-1149H and yielded 8 chert flakes that were recovered on the west side of the road, within the area recently cleared of brush. Preliminary surface examination indicate a prehistoric archaeological site exists adjacent to the historic site. The majority of debitage <20 mm was deemed "natural" based on a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text WESTEC Services.

A biological and cultural resource monitoring program on VAFB, in conjunction with a seismic survey conducted on behalf of the Union Oil Company. The seismic survey represents a minor variation on a previously completed study (WESTEC 1981). These variations include changes in auger hole depth and frequency, and the use of minisocie vibrating device, did not appreciably alter the anticipated impacts on biological or cultural resources. During the monitoring program, three previously unrecorded...

DOCUMENT Full-Text The Office of History, 1st Strategic Aerospace Division.

This document is a report detailing the story of the Marshallia ranch house. It is the oldest structure on VAFB, has been a landmark for more than a century, surviving drastic remodellings and the ravages of two fires. Mexicans and Americans, ranchers and missile engineers, wars and depressions, have all played a role in its destiny. Its fate has been linked with the "Rancho de Jesus Maria," which covered nearly one-half of the land on present-day VAFB. The ranch house's history mirrors the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. O. Gibson. B. J. Schuyler.

This document is a report for the results of the archaeological monitoring in 1982 for the proposed V33 Tow Route identified intact portions of CA-SBA-1149 within the project area. This report summarizes the results of the subsequent monitoring program during construction activities. The construction activities consisted of bulldozers, scrapers, and graders widening and levelling the old Coast Road. A total of 170 isolated artifacts and one feature consisting of a lithic cache of preforms and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Air Force Flight Test Center.

This report documents an archaeological investigation of portions of the San Antonio Terrace and Shuman Canyon was requested in support of proposed undertakings concerning the Peacekeeper in Minuteman Silo Testing Program. Possible modifications of El Rancho, El Rancho Oeste, Pega, Umbra and Point Sal Roads include turnout areas and access roads to launch facilities LF-02, LF-05, and LF-08. Archaeological investigations consisted of a background literature review, field survey, and consultation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document provides general descriptions and map locations for known historic Anglo and Hispanic campsites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gail Thompson.

This document is a letter report that presents a summary of the methods and results of archaeological testing at CA-SBA-706 in July 1983. The purpose of this testing was to mitigate impacts to the site as a result of construction activities during the repair of damage to Bass Road.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffery B. Serena.

This document is a report of the analysis of marine shellfish remains recovered in archaeological investigations conducted to mitigate impacts of MX missile development at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurence Spanne.

This document is a report on subsurface testing at CA-SBA-1686 revealing a low density cultural deposit consisting predominantly of Monterey Chert flakes. Testing was concentrated along the alignment of a proposed security fence and associated electrical trench. Datable charcoal and charred bone were collected (no dates reported), along with four chert tools. No features or distinguishable artifact clusters were identified within the area tested. These results are similar to those of previous...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roderick Brown.

This document is a letter report that presents the results of archaeological survey for a fence line replacement project at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California that will be completed by the U.S. Prison, Lompoc. Three previously recorded archaeological sites are located along the proposed fence line. No artifacts were observed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John M. Foster.

This document is a Section 106 archaeological survey that was performed to determine if any cultural resources would be affected by proposed modifications to four parcels (59 acres total) on south VAFB. Two previously recorded archaeological sites were in or near the study parcels. CA-SBA-1148 had been previous assessed as not significant and the boundaries of CA-SBA-1149 were unknown. No additional sites or isolated artifacts were discovered during the survey.

DOCUMENT Full-Text US Air Force, AFRCE-BMS.

This document is a data recovery plan for CA-SBA-1060 that was affected by the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison Program. The program was to construct and operate Peacekeeper Missile Program test facilities includes Roads and Utilities components. Phase 1 involves four elements: 1) the modification of 12 overhead utilities along El Rancho road, 2) upgrading of the El Rancho Road - Umbra Road intersection, 3) construction of an at-grade crossing of the Southern Pacific Railroad by El Rancho Road, and 4)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta S. Greenwood. John M. Foster.

This document is report for an inventory and limited awareness program that was undertaken to evaluate the potential impacts on cultural resources of two communications cable projects at VAFB. The inventory resulted in the discovery of five archaeological sites (4 prehistoric, 1 historic) and four cultural resource isolates. A limited assessment program was undertaken at the newly recorded sites (CA-SBA-1865H, 1866, 1867, 1868, and 1869) and at five previously identified sites (CA-SBA-513, 939,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This documents describes that an archaeological surface survey was conducted in the vicinity of the proposed V-17 Visual Landing Aids Project's construction of Papi lights at the 6500 foot marker north of the VAFB runway. Two previously recorded archaeological sites (CA-SBA-775 and 776) were noted adjacent to the proposed project area. This report summarizes the results of subsurface testing for the 100x200 foot area that could potentially impact these two sites. Based on a series of 19...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earth Technology Corporation.

This document is a report that summarizes archaeological field mitigation and monitoring on sites SBA-939, 513, and 1853. These studies include excavation of nine trenches at SBA-939, and monitoring the digging of a fiber optics cable trench through all three sites. As part of the Peacekeeper Program on VAFB, fiber optics cables were installed along a main corridor leading from the Installation Checkout Facility (ICF) complex, near the intersection of El Rancho Road and El Rancho Oeste Road;...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gloria Lauter.

This Memorandum is in reply to a request for a preliminary assessment of archaeological work which may be required for the proposed San Antonio Creek Flood Control Project at VAFB. The project area was as yet undetermined, so mapping and recommendations are aimed at identifying archaeological work that may be needed in the general area. Given the working project boundaries, nine archaeological sites are situated within the project area and will require assessment and evaluation to determine...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roderick S. Brown.

This is a preliminary study of the rates at which the wind alters archaeological deposits on the San Antonio Terrace. The study was undertaken as an adjunct to ongoing archaeological work on the terrace in advance of M-X Missile test facilities construction. The San Antonio Terrace is partially overlain by dunes believed to be less than 2,000 years old (Johnson 1983, Cooper 1967). Johnson labeled the very active dunes near the beach "recent" and the more vegetated dunes farther inland...

DOCUMENT Full-Text US Air Force, AFRCE-BMS.

This document is a cultural resources evaluation of three archaeological sites located along a proposed fiber optics cable installation route was conducted to determine site characteristics , NRHP eligibility, project effects, and potential mitigation measures. The Air Force has determined that the three sites, SBA-939, 513, and 1853, are eligible for the NRHP. The fiber optics cable installation will adversely affect site SBA-939. SBA-513 will likely not be affected; however, it is of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chambers Consultants and Planners.

This document is a report that presents the results of archaeological research undertaken in support of the construction of MX missile test facilities on northern Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California. During 1980-1982, all lands potentially subjected to construction impacts (the project area) were surveyed, and test excavations took place at 24 sites in order to define their boundaries and assess their significance. At eight of these sites excavations were more intensive...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lois Roberts.

This document is the historical research report for the MX Missile Test Facilities Project on Vandenberg Space Force Base. It provides a historical overview that is important to understanding the archaeology and historical period sites in the study area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text URS-Berger.

This document is a report that describes cultural resources testing and monitoring as part of the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison program, a program to construct and operate Peacekeeper missile test facilities at VAFB. The project included the installation of utilities and modification of roads. A total of 12 overhead utility lines crossing El Rancho and Umbra roads were undergrounded or modified; one was located in a floodplain and three were within or adjacent to a significant archaeological site ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a Section 106 report for archaeological testing performed on the site CA-SBA-212 located on Vandenberg Air Force Base. The testing was performed in support of the proposed installation of a communication line between an area near Point Pedernales to an existing line west of Coast Road. The purpose of the testing was to assess the National Register eligibility of CA-SBA-212. The report details the excavation of the site and presents the results. Although the document focuses...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Martin Marietta Corporation.

This report (ESR 20) describes the implementation of the Environmental Surveillance Plan for the STS Program at VAFB and is a continuation of reports No. 1-19. Construction activities continued at Station Sets V23, FY '84 Physical Security Modifications, V32 in Port Hueneme, and V80 (partial) Towroute. New construction began at V33 Harbor Headquarters Refurbishment, V23 Launch Pad Paving/North Access Road and Security Modifications Phase II (Security Patrol Roads) and V17 Visual Landing...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Foster. Roberta S. Greenwood.

This document is a study that was conducted for Union Oil Company to identify and evaluate cultural resources which may be affected by their proposed Northwest Lompoc/Jesus Maria Project on VAFB. Union Oil proposes to construct 43 well pads with size ranging from an area of 200x200 to 200x420 feet, combined cable/pipeline corridors 10-15 feet wide, and new access roads 20 feet wide. The inventory resulted in the discover of nine archaeological sites and nine cultural resource isolates (eight...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harmsworth Associates. Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a Section 106 inventory report discusses the results of monitoring and testing for construction activities associated with the V-23 Patrol Roads C and D. A total of 39 stone artifacts were recovered from Road C and 1 stone artifact was recovered from Road D during construction monitoring. A total of 10 shovel test units were excavated in the vicinity of where archaeological materials were unearthed and two new archaeological sites were identified. The two sites probably...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas Bamforth.

This document is a report that presents the results of an archaeological survey of approximately 12.17 miles of a fence surrounding the Point Sal Grazing Area and of an inspection of historic and prehistoric sites along a previously surveyed portion of this same fence. Seven archaeological sites and two isolates were recorded in the course of a survey o the fence around the Point Sal Grazing Area in the Casmalia Hills on VAFB in preparation for fence repair and replacement. In addition to this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Foster.

This document is a archaeological study undertaken as part of an Environmental Assessment. The purpose was to identify unknown archaeological sites and evaluate emplacement of a buried communication cable (#1976) on Vandenberg Air Force Base. No previously unknown archaeological sites were discovered during the course of this investigation. Two isolated archaeological findings were made, though the materials do not appear eligible for NRHP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harmsworth Associates.

This document is a letter report describing the results of archaeological investigations conducted for the Temporary Storage Facilities project. An intensive on-the-ground survey was performed but yielded no cultural features or artifacts were observed in the study area. Six shovel test pits were excavated due to the project's proximity to SBA-1686. No subsurface cultural materials were observed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. O. Gibson. E. A. Jackson.

This document is a letter report summarizing the results of an archaeological survey conducted in a 10-acre area for a proposed parking lot. Two artifacts were located in the survey area, though sites in the surrounding portions of southern VAFB have largely been subsurface, with little surface visibility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. O. Gibson.

This document is a letter report outlining survey results associated with the V33 project. Based on an archaeological surface survey and a literature review for the area, no significant archaeological/cultural resources were identified in the V-33 project area. However, because of the proximity of SBA-1686 and the occurrence of buried and isolated cultural artifacts in the general vicinity, it is recommended that archaeological monitoring accompany brush removal and all excavation into the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text URS Corporation.

This document describes a Phase I archaeological investigation conducted at CA-SBA-1010 and its immediate environs. SBA-1010 (Barka Slough) is a deeply stratified archaeological site buried in the south bank of San Antonio Creek, a major watercourse in VAFB. The project was primarily designed to determine whether cultural resources would be adversely affected if Santa Barbara County rip-rapped San Antonio Creek to prevent future erosion of Highway S-20. The project focused upon defining the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document includes documents that were produced as part of the Union Oil Project/ Exxon Project Shamrock and Central Santa Maria Basin Area Study EIS/EIR. They are support material of fieldwork conducted for and related to the Technical Appendix G, Cultural Resources, March 18, 1985. Prepared by Arthur D. Little, Inc, Santa Barbara, CA.

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This report documents preliminary findings of a geoarchaeological reconnaissance of Lompoc Mesa and includes sections on: regional setting, coastal terraces, terrace correlations, faults, dunes, and soil stratigraphy. Also includes change through the Holocene, spatial elements (visibility corridors) for sites, and landscape alterations.

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This document has two primary purposes. First, it describes the nature and results of a Phase II testing program conducted to evaluate the significance and importance of cultural resources that could be affected by the proposed Union Oil Company of California Santa Maria Basin Pipeline Project (Platform Irene Project). Second, the document present a program design for developing Phase III mitigations for unavoidable cultural resource impacts. Data collectioned during the Phase II...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donna Elias. Charles Pergler.

This report is prepared by the Martin Marietta Corporation (MMC) for the US Air Force to document the Environmental Surveillance activities performed under Contract No. F04701-83-C-0032. Contributing archaeological support is provided by Harmsworth Associates under contract to MMC. The environmental surveillance procedure continually evolves as results of field surveillance provide additional information on impacts of the Vandenberg Space Shuttle Program upon environmental resources of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

This document is a letter report outlining results of an archaeological surface survey in the vicinity of a proposed power line between Building 21101 and Sky Screen Road on Vandenberg Air Force Base. Although only a single isolated chert flake was noted adjacent to the proposed power line corridor, vegetation prohibited adequate surface examination. There also exists a possibility of a buried cultural site in the area. At least one archaeological site (SBA)1868) located south of the project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Army Corp of Engineers.

In August 1986, an archaeologist from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District, conducted an intensive pedestrian survey of approximately 40 acres surrounding the U.S. Air Force's proposed control tower location on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The survey was conducted to determine what effects, if any, construction of the proposed facility would have on cultural resources. The survey revealed only a substantially altered roadway that may correspond to a historic period...

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This document is an appendix for the No Effects determination for Gaseous Nitrogen Pipeline Project. This literature search of historical records dealing with post-European contact was made to clarify the nature of historical components of sites discovered by archaeological survey teams in the subject project area. Archaeological sites adjacent and near the pipeline corridor north of Honda Creek and south of Spring Canyon displayed Anglo artifacts. This research attempts to provide a historical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chester King. Robert O. Gibson. M. Kay Martin. Nancy R. Murphy. Lois Roberts. Larry Wilcoxon.

This document is the Technical Appendix C for the EXXON Lompoc Pipeline Project Supplemental EIR outlining the impacts to cultural resources for proposed pipeline alternatives for the Project. The appendix addresses cultural resources and contains tables and cultural material information.

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A cultural resources survey and archival study of areas on VAFB proposed for expansion of testing facilities for Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and the Peacekeeper Rail Garrison programs was conducted. Eighteen archaeological sites were identified during the survey of approximately 1100 acres. This brings to 39 the total number of sites known to exist in the three survey areas. Most of the sites represent camps or projectile-point preparation locations used by prehistoric hunters in...

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This Request for Determination of Eligibility for the San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District as a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) district is being submitted to facilitate management of cultural resources that could be affected by the construction of Peacekeeper Rail Garrison and Small Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) test facilities. Flight tests of both the Small ICBM and Peacekeeper Rail Garrison systems will be conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) to verify...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert O. Gibson.

Archaeological survey and testing for corridors covering proposed installation of approximately five miles of communications cable connecting various launch facilities along Port Sal and Globe roads. A total of 13 archaeological sites were investigated, including three newly identified sites and ten previously recorded sites. Sites and testing efforts are described individually yielding a recommended redesigned cable corridor that will reduce impacts and outlines possible cultural materials that...

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This document is a Section 106 report that addresses the potential for effects to significant archaeological and/or historical properties as a result of the construction of a gaseous nitrogen (GN2) pipeline which requires the excavation of a 1 foot wide trench 3-5 feet deep and will generally occur within 10 feet of existing roadways. During the cultural resource inventory and subsurface testing projects, 10 sites, five prehistoric, two historic, and three multi-component resources, were...