- City:
- Sheridan, WY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Two water reservoirs, located among fields off Hidden Hoot Trail—south of West 5th Street and west of Mydland Road—about two miles west of downtown in Sheridan, Wyoming, were constructed as part of a large waterworks project enabled by the New Deal’s Public Works Administration (PWA) in 1936-7. The map provided shows the location of what are known as the Upper Reservoir and Lower Reservoir of the project’s “North Section.” The reservoirs have since been covered but are still in operation.
Coordinates:
North Section – Upper Reservoir: 44.801374, -106.996313
North Section – Lower Reservoir: 44.798229, -106.996966
Source notes
Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 157.
National Archives: RG 135-SAR: Public Works Administration Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939.” Box 23, Wyoming File, Folder "17. Water Works."
Local source
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 26, 2022.
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