IMAGE
Flood Damage related to 1910 fire, Big Creek Valley Item Info
- Title:
- Flood Damage related to 1910 fire, Big Creek Valley
- Photographer:
- Swan, K.D.
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1938
- Description:
- Photo text: 'Result of 1910 fires. A view at the lower end of the Big Creek valley. This entire bottom was submerged during the spring freshet of 1938. Beaver dams which tended to hold back excessive stream flow in normal year were swept away. Many changes in the stream channel took place over night. Silt and gravel was carried downstream in enormous quantities. Thousands of dollars damage was done to highways, railroads, and building below.'
- Subjects:
- big burn flood Big Creek Valley creek national forests fire
- Location:
- Payette National Forest;Idaho;United States
- Latitude:
- 45.086761
- Longitude:
- -115.33838
- Source:
- NARA College Park RG 95; Box 480
- Source Identifier:
- NARA10StlPht1
- USFS Number:
- 361711
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Flood Damage related to 1910 fire, Big Creek Valley", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho542.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. For more information; please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/