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Lake Meredith National Recreation Area Surveys

Over the past two years personnel from the CBBS conducted four intensive archeological surveys at Lake Meredith in the Texas Panhandle in order to locate and record sites and make recommendations relative to those properties prior to scheduled prescribed burns. The projects were conducted through a five-year Cooperative Agreement signed in September 2002 between SRSU and the recreation area. Three surveys were performed on the northwest side of the lake and one on the southeast side, with a portion of the latter project within Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument.

A survey along Plum Creek (2,000 acres), conducted in October 2002, resulted in documentation of 22 archeological sites (Cason and Cloud 2003). An initial survey along Big Blue Creek was conducted in February 2003 during which 24 archeological sites were documented (Cloud 2003). A second Big Blue Creek survey took place in August 2003 and resulted in the rerecording of 12 archeological sites and documentation of three new sites (Cason 2003).

The most recent investigation at Lake Meredith occurred in March 2004. The survey area centered on a segment of South Turkey Creek, including some adjacent private property, while a reassessment portion of the project involved five sites within Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument. Twenty-six sites were evaluated, two of which were former historic homesteads (Schooler et al. 2004).