Reconnaissance Level Survey of Four Western Oklahoma Towns

Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University; Carney, George

Abstract: "Under contract to the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office, Co-Principal Investigators George O. Carney and Brad Bays and two Research Assistants, Jim Davis and Melinda Hoskin, all from the Oklahoma State University Department of Geography, conducted a Reconnaissance Level Survey of Four Western Oklahoma Towns during the 1996-97 fiscal years. That survey included portions of Clinton, Elk City, Watonga, and Weatherford as specified by the survey and planning subgrant stipulations. 166 properties were minimally recorded and photographed including completion of the Historic Preservation Resource Identification Form and two elevation photographs for each. This document includes an extensive narrative that furnishes an historic context for each of the four study areas, maps that illustrate the four areas surveyed, a research design for the project and the methodology used to implement it, an annotated bibliography pertinent to the study areas, and, most important, the results of the reconnaissance level survey. Among those results are a discussion of the different kinds of properties encountered in the field, an identification of individual properties and potential historic districts that meet National Register age and integrity requirements, an examination of areas and properties that warrant further study to determine eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and an analysis of those portions of the study areas that fail to meet the criteria for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. As a part of the survey, thumbnail sketches of areas in the four study towns are outlined regarding potential districts, those which merit further study, and those that are eliminated from further consideration. An evaluation of the architectural significance of the individual properties and potential historic districts is provided by Professor Jeffrey Williams of the School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University." Funding was provided in part by a 1996 Historic Preservation Fund grant administered by the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 40-96-11110) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Reconnaissance Level Survey of Four Western Oklahoma Towns

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