Answer: The USGS Field Records Library in Denver, Colorado, has an extensive collection of materials. You may contact them at:
- USGS Field Records Library
- Box 25046, MS 914
- Denver Federal Center
- Denver, CO 80225-0046
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- Telephone: 303-236-1000
- FAX: 303-236-0015
- TDD: 303-236-0998
- E-mail: den_lib@usgs.gov
To find field record materials related to Alaska, contact:
- Jill Schneider
- USGS Mineral Resources Surveys
- Alaska Section
- 4200 University Drive
- Anchorage, AK 99508-4667
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- Telephone: 907-786-7457 (Office) and 907-786-7007 (Library)
- FAX: 907-786-7401
- E-mail: jschnidr@usgs.gov
Two other sources of field records are:
1. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, which keeps field record materials
in their Archives II facility. Refer to the Guide
to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States (Washington, D.C.: NARA, 1995).
Inventory of the Records of the United States Geological Survey, Record Group 57, in the National Archives, part of
USGS Circular 1179 (2000, CD-ROM): Records and History of the
United States Geological Survey, contains information on USGS and related records accessioned by NARA through 1997 and
held at NARA-II. Appendices in this inventory list field records held at NARA-II and by the USGS Field Records Library
at Denver.
- National Archives and Records Administration
- 8601 Adelphi Road
- College Park, MD 20740-6001
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- Telephone: 301-713-6800 (General Reference Information)
- Telephone: 1-866-272-6272 (Toll Free)
- E-mail: inquire@nara.gov
- URL: http://www.archives.gov/index.html
2. Smithsonian Institution Archives includes papers of individuals with close ties to both the USGS and the Smithsonian.
Other materials related with the activities of the Smithsonian Institution and the USGS are available there as well. Refer
to the Guide to the Smithsonian Archives (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996) or contact them at the
following address:
- The Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Arts and Industries Building, Room 2135
- 900 Jefferson Drive, S.W.
- Washington, D.C. 20560
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- Telephone: 202-357-1420
- E-mail: OSIAREF@OSIA.SI.EDU
The notes made by USGS map surveyors are available in two locations. For topographic mapping
notes pertaining to areas of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and states west, including Alaska, contact:
- Rocky Mountain Mapping Center
- USGS National Mapping Division
- Box 25046, MS 506, Federal Center
- Denver, CO 80225-0046
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- Telephone: 303-202-4394
For topographic mapping notes pertaining to other geographic areas in the United States, contact:
- Mid-Continent Mapping Center
- USGS National Mapping Division
- MS 309
- 1400 Independence Road
- Rolla, MO 65401
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- Telephone: 573-308-3663
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