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Posted December 01, 2003
Websites reviewed by Steve Beleu, ODL
A Guide to F-Scale Damage Assessment.
U.S. National Weather Service. v, 94p. 2003.
Sudocs number: C 55.108:F 95
http://meted.ucar.edu/resource/wcm/ftp/FinalNWSF-scaleAssessmentGuide.pdf
This guide to the nasty business that tornadoes can do has to be included
in this column for this reason alone if nothing else: there are a lot of examples
from Oklahoma in this book! And of course this book can probably and unfortunately
be useful this spring. It discusses the types of damage that tornadoes can
do. Included are "example" photos from the Union City tornado of
May 1973, the Chickasha tornado of May 1999, and the F5 tornado that hit Moore/Del
City/Oklahoma City in 1999. It also provides guidelines about organizing for
and evaluating tornado damage.
Local Legacies-Oklahoma.
Library of Congress.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/state_page_OK.html
This webpage is part of a project that lists traditional events and local
histories of each state as nominated by our Congressional delegation. Among
the legacies this notes are the Oklahoma Czech Festival, the Mozart International
Festival, and the Route 66 State Museum.
The Nation's Report Card. Reading 2002; Report for Oklahoma.
U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/stt2002/2003526OK.pdf
Data about reading proficiency in grades 4 and 8 in Oklahoma's public
schools. Readers in our schools' 4th grade read at a level below the national
norm; readers in our schools' 8th grade read at the level of the national
norm.
A Preliminary to War; The 1st Aero Squadron and the Mexican Punitive Expedition
of 1916.
U.S. Air Force History and Museums Program. 61p. 2003.
Sudocs number: D 301.82/7:W 19/3
http://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/Publications/fulltext/Miller_Punitive_Expedition.pdf
Did you know that Ft. Sill played a major role in the development of our
nation's Air Force? When General Pancho Villa invaded the U.S. in 1916, the
Army used the occasion to test their newly-formed 1st Aero Squadron. The eight
planes of that first U.S. Air Force conducted tests at Ft. Sill in 1915. Since
the role that the planes were designed for then was not that of combat but
of communication and observation, their maneuvers were with Ft. Sill's field
artillery. The pilots found that Oklahoma's heat, cold, and wind made flying
dangerous. Several planes crashed. The Aero Squadron eventually joined General
Patton's "Punitive Expedition" in 1916 from their new base at Columbus,
New Mexico.
Private School Universe Survey: 1999-2000.
National Center for Educational Statistics. x, 82, 15p
Sudocs number: ED 1.328/5:P 93/3/999-2000
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/2001330.pdf
Provides data about private elementary and secondary schools for the U.S.,
regions of the U.S., and states. These types of schools can be classified
as either religious or non-religious, with examples of non-religious schools
being those of the American Montessori Society, the Association of Military
Colleges and Schools, and the National Association for the Education of Young
Children. Did you know that there were 179 private schools in Oklahoma during
the 1999-2000 school year?
Profile 2003: Softwood Sawmills in the United States and Canada.
U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. various pagings. 2003.
Sudocs number: A 13.78:FPL-RP-608
Not available from Internet.
There are four major sawmills in Oklahoma. This contains production data for
each sawmill from 1997 to 2003. Their estimated production capacity in 2003
was 896,000 cubic meters of wood.
2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation.
Oklahoma
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2003
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/01fhw/fhw01-ok.pdf
Aside from the statistics that you would expect from a survey about the
number of Oklahomans who hunt and fish, and what they spend buying the equipment
that they use, this fact emerges: more Oklahomans participate in watching
wildlife than in hunting and fishing for it.
2002 State Health Profiles (including a chapter on Oklahoma)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sudocs number: HE 20.7043/52:2002. iv, 176p. 2003.
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/shp/pdf/SHP2002.pdf
This answers the question: how much do the Centers for Disease Control spend
in Oklahoma, and what do they spend it on? This title will tell you that they
spent $17,184,684 in immunization programs as their highest expenditure, and
$153,310 on occupational safety and health programs as their lowest. It includes
all monies that CDC spent between these extremes also. During the data year
for this publication, which was 2001, they spent $35,077,461 in Oklahoma.
U.S. Geological Survey Reports about Oklahoma
One of the good things about Oklahoma's having an office of the USGS in Oklahoma
City is that we now receive many more reports about our state's geology than
formerly.
Changes in streamflow and summary of major-ion chemistry and loads in
the North Fork Red River Basin upstream from Lake Altus, Northwestern Texas
and Western Oklahoma, 1945-1999.
Water-Resources Investigation Report 03-4086. vi, 36p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:03-4086
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri034086/#pdf
Comparison of irrigation water use estimates calculated from remotely
sensed irrigated acres and state reported irrigated acres in the Lake Altus
Drainage Basin, Oklahoma and Texas, 2000 Growing Season.
Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4155. vi, 39p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:03-4155
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri034155/
The Norman Landfill Environmental Research Site: what happens to the waste
in landfills?
Fact sheet FS-040-03. 4p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.127:040-03
Not available from Internet.
Phosphorus concentrations, loads, and yields in the Illinois River Basin,
Arkansas and Oklahoma, 1997-2001.
Water-Resources Investigation Report 03-4168. v, 40p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:03-4168
http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/wri/wri034168/
Posted July 10, 2003
Websites reviewed by Steve Beleu, ODL
Census 2000 data for the State of Oklahoma. U.S. Bureau of the Census.
http://www.census.gov/census2000/states/ok.html
This is your one-stop shop to 2000 Census statistics for Oklahoma. It links to every Oklahoma table and map webpage on the Census website.
Fort Sill, Oklahoma, 1869—an isolated outpost on the untamed frontier; economic impact fiscal year 1997. U.S. Department of Defense. 29p. 1997,
but received in 2003. Available only on microfiche.
Sudocs number: D 101.2:F 77S
This is a short history of what was first called “Camp Wichita,” and an analysis of the economic impact that Ft. Sill has on southwestern Oklahoma.
WANT A FREE MICROFICHE COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT? Send an e-mail request to us at kmotes@oltn.odl.state.ok.us Offer good only to libraries in Oklahoma.
National Assessment of Educational Progress; State profile, Oklahoma, 2001-2002. U.S. National Center for Educational Statistics.
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states
This is the latest basic data about Oklahoma’s student and school/school district characteristics. Summary data only.
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site. National Park Service.
http://www.nps.gov/waba
On November 27, 1868 the U.S. Army forces of Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked and massacred the Southern Cheyenne inhabitants of the village of “Peace Chief” Black Kettle. This guide to the site includes “The Story of the Battle of the Washita,” a photo gallery, and other features.
Congressional Testimonies by Oklahomans
The Crusader artillery system. U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services. iii, 112p.
Sudocs number: Y4.AR 5/3:S.Hrg. 107-804
You may remember that the Oklahoma town of Elgin expected to build the Crusader before U.S. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld canceled the program. Here Oklahoma Senate committee member Jim Inhofe pushes hard to continue the Crusader program.
Local prevention and response capabilities. U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations. iii, 39p. 2002.
Sudocs number: Y4.AP 6/2:S.hrg. 107-336
Former Tulsa mayor and current Oklahoma Secretary of State Susan Savage talks about Tulsa’s disaster preparedness programs in the context of post-“9/11” terrorism.
U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Reports on Oklahoma
Environmental characteristics and geographic information system applications for the developments of nutrient thresholds in Oklahoma streams.
Water-Resources Investigation Report 02-4191. iv, 43p. 2002.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:02-4191
Hydrogeology and leachate plume delineation at a closed municipal landfill, Norman, Oklahoma.
Water-Resources Investigation Report 01-4168. iv, 36p. 2002.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:01-4168
Hydrology and water quality near Bromide Pavilion in Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Murray County, Oklahoma, 2000.
Water-Resources Investigation Report 01-4250. iv, 31p. 2002.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:01-4250
Overview of water resources in and near Wichita and affiliated tribes treaty lands in western Oklahoma.
Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4024. vi, 52p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:03-4024
Percentile distributions of median nitrite plus nitrate as nitrogen, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus concentration in Oklahoma streams, 1973-2001.
Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4084. iv, 24p. 2003.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:03-4084
Possible sources of nitrate in ground water at swine licensed-managed feeding operations in Oklahoma, 2001.
Water-Resources Investigations Report 02-4257. 76p. 2002.
Sudocs number: I 19.42/4:02-4257
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