VAFB-2020-37: Cultural Resource Investigations to Support Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for Development of the Vandenberg Dunes Golf Courses on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2017-G)

Author(s): Eric S. Nocerino

Year: 2020

Summary

Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) proposes to enter into an Enhanced Use Lease with MLK Consulting, LLC (MLK) wherein MLK would develop approximately 1,273 acres to include multiple golf courses and supporting services. The proposed development, to be known as the Vandenberg Dunes Golf Courses, would subsume the existing 250-acre Marshallia Ranch Golf Course and substantially upgrade it to ultimately include five separate golf courses and associated facilities and infrastructure. Vandenberg AFB determined that the proposed Vandenberg Dunes Golf Courses Project (Project) is an undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 [codified at 54 USC 306108] of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended [54 USC 300101 et seq.: Historic Preservation]. Lease of federal land is an undertaking subject to Section 106 [codified at 54 USC 306108] of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, as amended, [54 USC 300101 et seq.: Historic Preservation] and the implementing regulations in Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 800 (36 CFR 800). This report is intended to support U.S. Air Force compliance with Section 106.

Cite this Record

VAFB-2020-37: Cultural Resource Investigations to Support Compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act for Development of the Vandenberg Dunes Golf Courses on Vandenberg Air Force Base, Santa Barbara County, California (2017-G). Eric S. Nocerino. 2020 ( tDAR id: 466275) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8466275

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Historic • Purisimeno Chumash

Material
Amber Glass • applied lid tops • Asphaltum nodules • Barbed Wire • Biface • Bird bone • Blades • bottle tops • Buffalo Pottery 1911 • Building Materials • Ceramic • Charcoal • Chipped Stone • Concave scraper • concrete slabs • Cores • cottontail bones • Cryptochiton sp. • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Franciscan chert • Glass • Glass fragments • Great Horned Owl bone • Green Glass • Ground Stone • ground stone fragments • Hammerstones • iron concretions • Lumber • Mammal Bone • Manuports • Metal • Metal pipe • Monterey Chert • Monterey Chert debitage • Mytilus sp. (Mussel) • Nails • Obsidian • oil well pads • Projectile Point • Purple Glass • Red Ochre • Reptile bone • Sandstone • Sea Mammal Bone • Shell • Shell Bead • Side-notched projectile point • Slab metate • Spikes • stone flaked tools • Straight-based triangular point • tableware fragments • tie plates • triangular point base • turban snail shell • Unpatterened flake tool • utilized flakes • whittle-marked glass • Wood • wood fence post Show More

Site Name
395-A Titan I Launch Complex • 395-B Titan II Launch Complex • 395-C Titan II Launch Complex • 395-D Titan II Launch Complex • Building 1338 • Building 1340 • Building 1344 • CA-SBa-1019 • CA-SBA-1026 • CA-SBA-1027 • CA-SBA-1029 • CA-SBA-1030 • CA-SBA-1709/H • CA-SBA-2158/H • CA-SBA-2238 • CA-SBA-2334/H • CA-SBA-2994 • CA-SBA-3280 • CA-SBA-3535/H • CA-SBA-593 • CA-SBA-594 • CA-SBA-Z00021/H • Jesus Maria Oil Field • Marshallia Ranch Golf Course • Marshall Ranch • Narlon Branch Railroad • Olivera Adobe Building • OSTF-8 • P-42-041173 • P-42-041174 • P-42-041175 • P-42-041176 • P-42-041177 • P-42-041178 • P-42-041179 • P-42-041372 • San Antonio Terrace Archaeological District (SATAD) • Silo Launch Test Facility (SLTF) • Titan ICBM Development Historic District • Titan I OSTF-8 • Titan SLTF Show More

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Blacksmith Shop • Built environment resources • Clubhouse Building • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Equipment building • Governmental Structure • Hearth • Historic archaeological sites • Historic Governmental Structure • Midden • Military Structure • prehistoric archaeological sites • Quonset hut • Railroad • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • short-term residence • Union Sugar Company

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Heritage Management • Historic Background Research • Reconnaissance / Survey • Records Search / Inventory Checking • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966 • NRHP Eligibility • Section 106

Geographic Keywords
California (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Santa Barbara (County) • United States of America (Country) • Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) • Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Late Period • Prehistoric

Temporal Coverage

Radiocarbon Date: 600 to 320 (cal B.P.)

Calendar Date: 1910 to 1938 (Narlon Branch Railroad)

Radiocarbon Date: 925 to 290 (B.P.)

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB); Roscoe Loetzerich

Contributor(s): Josh Smallwood; Clayton G. Lebow

Landowner(s): Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)

Repository(s): 30 CES/CEVPC Vandenberg Space Force Base

Record Identifiers

Project ID(s): 2017-G

VAFB Number(s): VAFB-2020-37

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Contact(s): Roscoe Loetzerich; Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB)