Repository |
Office of the City Secretary
Dallas Municipal Archives
1500 Marilla Street, 5D South
Dallas, Texas 75201 |
Creator | US Army Corps of Engineers
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Title | US Army Corps of Engineers Collection
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Dates |
1894-1984
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Quantity |
1.67 linear feet
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Abstract |
Photos, reports, publications from the Army Corps of Engineers related to the Trinity River
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Identification | 2022-001
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Language |
Records are in English |
Scope and Content
Collection contains reports, correspondence, and photos. Most, but not all, are related to the Corps's work around the Trinity River. It is an ongoing collection with additions expected over time.
The Fort Worth District of the Corps was established in 1950, following the disastrous Trinity River floods, and is responsible for water resources development for two-thirds of Texas. The district is also responsible for military and interagency design and construction in Texas and Louisiana.
The district covers a geographical area of approximately 140,000 square miles and employs over 1200 team members. The Corps operates and maintains 25 multipurpose reservoirs in six river basins, three hydropower plants, and over 350 recreation areas, which receive over 20 million visitors annually. Through FY20, its reservoirs have prevented more than $150 billion in flood damages since their construction.
The district’s civil works mission includes flood risk management, water supply, recreation, hydropower, fish and wildlife mitigation, environmental restoration, and regional stewardship. Additionally, the district has a continuing authorities program that supports projects involving flood control, stream bank protection, clearing, and snagging. The district’s civil works area of responsibility covers approximately 53 percent of the state of Texas and portions of 10 river basins, many of which are shared with the Galveston District, from the Rio Grande River in the southwest to the Red River in the northeast.
The Corps delivers major military construction projects to Fort Bliss, Fort Hood, Fort Polk, and Joint Base San Antonio and, in the past, has deployed team members to support the recovery operations under the National Response Framework, and as part of federal response missions, including Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Overall, the district’s team of professionals provides services to other federal agencies including the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. [Taken from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Fort Worth District website]
The Trinity River survey book includes surveys and sketches of the bridges crossing the Trinity River in Dallas. The book is a hand-written survey book from an 1894 Corps survey team that contains Trinity River data. The Corps continues to measure streams and rivers and associated structures such as bridges in its current work. A typical survey group is composed of several people with one recording data in the log book. This information is used by engineers to develop models of the stream or river to compute water-surface elevations. These water surface elevations are computed using stream or river flows produced from the watershed. Today, models are developed on a computer; in 1894, they were hand-drawn.
The survey book contains not only the actual distance and elevation measurements along certain locations along the Trinity River but also pertinent sketches of the river channel and bridges. The Corps developed river basin studies for most of the major rivers in Texas. It is possible, but unknown, that the survey in this book was part of a larger Trinity River basin study.
Organization
The collection is ongoing; items are added as they are acquired.
Access
Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use by any and all other current or future methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives. All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards. The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.
Citation
US Army Corps of Engineers Collection (Box #, Folder #), Dallas Municipal Archives
Related Materials
None
Index Terms
Dallas -- Texas -- History
Trinity River (Tex.)
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Container List
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Erosion and Land Use Report and Maps of the White Rock Reservoir, Near Dallas, Texas, 1939 Report on Emergency Water Supply for City of Dallas, 2/1953 Water Requirements Survey, Dallas County, Texas, 1954 Trinity River Greenway: A Prototype, 2/1972 Report of Investigations for An Additional Water Supply for the City of Dallas, Texas, 1/1924 Report of Investigations for An Additional Water Supply for the City of Dallas, Texas, Hydrology Report, 1/1924
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2
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Chain of Lakes Park: An Alternative to Town Lake, 1984
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| History of Dallas Water Supply 1841-1965
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| Correspondence and reports, 1930s
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| 3
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Supplemental Report on Master Plan of the Trinity River and Tributaries, Texas, 12/1960
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| Long-Range Water Supply Study for the City of Dallas, 1/1959
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| 5
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Long-Range Water Supply Study for the City of Dallas, Appendix F, Report on Diversion from the Red River, Texas, undated
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A Preliminary Design Report for Town Lake for the City of Dallas, Part Two, 8/1975
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| 2
| [John to find]
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| Lower White Rock Creek Special Flood Hazard Information Report, 8/1970
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4 | Two photographs of the Southland Life Building, ca. 1970s
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| 5
| Trinity River Levels - Level Book No G14, 1894 [goes with oversized map]
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| Memorandum Report - Floods of 1957, March 1959 [Comprising the floods of April-June 1957 on the Sabine, Neches, Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, Guadalupe-San Antonio, and Nueces River Basins; the flood of October 1957 on the Trinity, Brazos, and Colorado River Basins; and the flood of November 1957 on the Trinity River Basin]
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| 7
| 4 small photos of dry White Rock spillway, 1949
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| 8
| Revised Plan of Improvement - Trinity River, May 1937
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| 9
| Progress Report - Trinity River Authority 1964-1965
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4
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| Trintity River Improvement Bond magazine, Winter 1973
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| 2
| Transcript of interview with Jim Temple, son of Dallas Mayor James Temple
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| 3
| Trinity River Greenway Hydrology Files, June 1972
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| 4
| Controlled Water Resources of the Trinity River Watershed, April 1946
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| Trinity River Progress - bundle of magazines, 1969-1971
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| Photograph - Frazier Dam - Elm Fork of the Trinity, 3/1960
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