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  2. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    The Dust Bowl (Wessels Living History Farm) Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture – Dust Bowl; Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry: Oklahoma Women in the Dust Bowl Oral History Project, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program; Voices of Oklahoma interview with Frosty Troy.

  3. Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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    The Act also gave directives to conserve the soil in the "high plains"—soil that was being raised into huge dust bowls during the 1930s. This period, known as the Dust Bowl, coupled with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, hit farmers particularly hard. The act attempted to correct earlier government policy that encouraged farmers ...

  4. 1934–35 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    Excessive heat and drought problems affected the United States in 1934–35 from the Rocky Mountains, Texas and Oklahoma to parts of the Midwestern, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic states. These droughts and excessive heat spells were parts of the Dust Bowl and concurrent with the Great Depression in the United States.

  5. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Drought having an acute economic impact in the history of the United States occurred during the 1930s and 1940s, periods of time known as 'Dust Bowl' years where relief and health agencies became overburdened and many local community banks had to close. [3]

  6. Black Sunday (storm) - Wikipedia

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    Black Sunday is a particularly severe dust storm that occurred on April 14, 1935, as part of the Dust Bowl in the United States. [1] It was one of the worst dust storms in American history and caused immense economic and agricultural damage. [2] It is estimated that 300 thousand tons of topsoil were displaced from the prairie area. [3]

  7. 1988–1990 North American drought - Wikipedia

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    The drought caused $60 billion in damage ($155 billion 2024 USD) in United States dollars, adjusting for inflation. The drought occasioned some of the worst blowing-dust events since 1977 or the 1930s in many locations in the Midwestern United States , including a protracted dust storm, which closed schools in South Dakota in late February 1988.

  8. Drier than the Dust Bowl: Iowa, facing more drought, preps ...

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    As wells dry up, aquifer levels drop and water demand grows, how much drought can Iowa withstand? 'We don’t have unlimited water,' state geologist says. Drier than the Dust Bowl: Iowa, facing ...

  9. Arvin Federal Government Camp - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Arvin Federal Government Camp begins with the migration of people displaced by the events of the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. A combination of droughts and high intensity dust storms forced many farmers in areas such as Oklahoma to vacate and find a new beginning. In the summer of 1934 the date July 24th marked the 36th ...