Theblackland prairies and woodlandsof southwestern Arkansas harbor more than 600 species of plants (including 21 globally imperiled plant communities) and some 315 animal species. While some 12,000 acres are already protected, TNC is working with partner agencies and private landowners to protect addit...
Slow-moving thunderstorms brought devastating flooding to the Arkansas River in Colorado in 1921. On June 3, 1921, a sunny day turned into disaster in a few hours as very slow-moving thunderstorms dumped torrential rains along Fountain Creek north of Pueblo. Another storm one hour later over Pu...
. . Roads, and existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued: Decade Parcel-count 1820s 424 ...
Under irrigation, southwestern Kansas has come to produce truck crops and sugar beets. Northeastern Kansas, once covered by the glacier that crept over most of the northern United States, is hilly and timbered, with many creeks and springs. The southeast, lying near the foothills of theOzark Mo...
My Great Great Grandfather no longer was enslaved to the Creek Nation but became a citizen of their nation. Soon he became a leader among the Black Creeks. In 1872, he became a representative in The House of Kings and represented the Canadian Colored Town. In 1874 he was appointed to serv...
The rains forced many creeks out of their banks, with as much as six feet of water flooding a mobile home park near Mingo Creek. Flooding damaged an additional 300 homes in the Tulsa area. One fatality was attributed to the flooding. The combined damage from tornadoes and flooding made this...
Trinity River; to the Asinais (Caddo) in east Texas, to the people living in Arkansas. Chief Cantona and his people attended the 1691 gathering and greeted Captain Pedro de Aguirre’s traveling group on the Colorado River, in 1709, where he invited the captain to his village in northeast ...