Ohio River Environmental Assessment Cultural Resources Reconnaissance Technical Report for the State of Kentucky Portion,
Abstract
A study of the Kentucky portion of the Ohio River Valley was conducted in order to determine the number and distribution of known prehistoric and historic sites within one kilometer of the River. This study is to be used for the completion of an Environmental Assessment of the entire length of the Ohio River. The study resulted in data on 521 sites, 406 archaeological and 115 historic distributed over 29 counties. It must, however, be assumed that this compilation represents only the tip of the iceberg. Such a phenomenon is observed most strikingly when one observes the great addition of sites to Boone County by a survey of East Bend Bottoms, the same outstanding type of addition of sites to Trimble County by the survey of Wise's Landing and finally the most singular instance of intensive survey where two small plots outside Paducah, McCracken County, yielded over 35 sites to the investigators from Southern Illinois University. The study area delimited by this project consists of the Kentucky side of the Ohio River from the West Virginia line, River Mile 317, to its juncture with the Mississippi, River Mile 981. Sites were to be located only on the floodplain to the distance of one kilometer from the bank of the Ohio, or up to the base of the bluffs, and inward up the Ohio's major tributaries until the first impoundment was reached.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 15, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA084403
Entities
People
- Anne Tobbe Bader
- Bobbie K. Sudhoff
- Joseph E. Granger
- Louis Seig
- Philip J. Diblasi
Organizations
- United States Army Corps of Engineers