In 1870, after successfully completing surveys of Nebraska (1867) and Colorado and Wyoming (1868-1869), Ferdinand V. Hayden presented a plan to  Congress for a geological and geographical survey of the Territories of the United States. Congress approved and the Hayden survey then became the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories under the Department of the Interior. Publications of the Hayden Survey include significant information about the place names of Wyoming.

Publications include:

 

-First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Nebraska. (Hayden, 1867)

-Second Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Wyoming. (Hayden, 1868)

-Third Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey, embracing Colorado and New Mexico. Washington, DC: GPO, 1869.      (Hayden,1869) 

The First, Second and Third Annual Reports were republished in one volume in 1873.

 

-Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Wyoming and portions of contiguous territories. Washington, DC: GPO, 1872 (Hayden, 1870)

-Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and portions of adjacent territories. Washington, DC: GPO, 1872 (Hayden, 1871)

-Sixth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing portions of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah; being a report of  progress of the explorations for the year 1872. Washington, DC: GPO, 1873 (Hayden, 1872)

-Seventh Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado. Washington, DC: GPO, 1874 (Hayden, 1873)

-Eighth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey of the Territories, embracing Colorado and parts of adjacent territories. Washington, DC: GPO, 1876 (Hayden, 1874)

-Eleventh Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, embracing Idaho and Wyoming, being a report of  progress of the exploration for the year 1877. Washington, DC: GPO, 1879 (Hayden, 1877)

-Twelfth Annual Report of the United States Geographical and Geological Survey of the Territories: A Report of the Progress of the Exploration in Wyoming and Idaho for the year 1878 in two parts. Part I. Part II. Yellowstone National Park. Washington, D. C. : GPO, 1883.

(Hayden, 1878) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sources:

United States Geological Survey. The four great surveys of the West.

http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/c1050/surveys.htm

 


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