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Oregon Drainage Basin Maps, 1957-1992View associated digital content.

Predominant Dates: 1957-1978
The Oregon Drainage Basin Maps include statewide maps as well as maps for individual basins. The maps define basin boundaries and depict the rivers and streams within each basin (or watershed). Land use maps for several of the basins are also part of the collection.
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ID: MAPS Drainage
Extent: 0.25 cubic feet
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Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.
Statement on Description:

We acknowledge that materials in SCARC collections and the language that describes them may be harmful. We are actively working to address our descriptive practices; for more information please see our SCARC Anti-Racist Actions Statement online.

Materials in this collection may use racist, derogatory, or harmful language to describe places, bodies of water, landforms, and other natural or man-made features. A project to identify and describe specific instances of harmful language in this collection is underway.

Since this language is written or printed on the maps themselves, we have left it unchanged. We acknowledge the racism represented by this language and the harm it may cause our users. Providing access to these historical materials does not endorse any attitudes or behavior depicted therein.

Arrangement
Preferred Citation: Oregon Drainage Basin Maps (MAPS Drainage), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Acquisition Note: These materials were transferred from the Oregon State University Libraries' maps collection to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center in 2014.
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Container List

Series 1: Statewide Maps, 1962-1970 Add to Shelf
Series I consists of maps depicting all the drainage basins in the state. The map of water use programs indicates the minimal perennial stream flow in cubic feet per second (cfs).
Extent: 4 sheets
UnitID: Series I
Folder-Item 1.1: Oregon Drainage Basins, 1962-1970 Add to Shelf
Extent: 3 sheets
Folder-Item 1.2: Water Use Programs, 1964 Add to Shelf
Extent: 24 sheets
Series 2: Basin Maps, 1957-1992 Add to Shelf
Series II consists of maps of individual basins or watersheds. Land use maps for the Deschutes and Upper, Middle, and Lower Willamette Basins are included. These were prepared as part of a statewide land use inventory and depict irrigated and non-irrigated agricultural land, range, forest land, and urban areas. The land use maps include a table providing the acres for each land use classification by county in the basin. One of the Willamette Basin maps depicts recreation areas.
UnitID: Series II
Folder-Item 1.3: Deschutes, 1978 Add to Shelf
Folder-Item 1.4: Goose and Summer Lakes, 1970-1975 Add to Shelf
Extent: 3 sheets
Folder-Item 1.5: Grande Ronde, 1959 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 sheets
Folder-Item 1.6: John Day, 1974 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 sheets
Folder-Item 1.7: North Coast, 1967-1992 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 sheets
Folder-Item 1.8: Powder, 1992 Add to Shelf
Folder-Item 1.9: Rogue, 1957 Add to Shelf
Extent: 2 sheets
Folder-Item 1.10: Umatilla, 1962 Add to Shelf
Folder-Item 1.11: Umpqua, 1959-1969 Add to Shelf
Extent: 3 sheets
Folder-Item 1.12: Willamette, 1964-1991 Add to Shelf
Includes maps of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Willamette Basins and the full Willamette Basin as well as the Sandy Basin.
Extent: 7 sheets
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