Creator: Planning Commission (RG 15).

Collection Summary: Subject files concerning drainage districts, drainage basins, and other drainage-related topics.  A great deal of the material concerns the Statewide Drainage Survey conducted by the State Planning Commission (and its successor, the Board of Development) and the Works Progress Administration. Materials include reports, maps, charts, invoices, bills, expense statements, press releases, legislation, statistics, and personnel records.  Arrangement is alphabetical by folder title. 

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1935-1941.

Volume: 2.25 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Colby Cox in August 2024.

Related Materials: Series 2480: Drainage District County Maps.

Record Group History: The Mississippi Planning Commission was created by the Mississippi Senate via Senate Bill 551 in 1936. The Commission was tasked with creating a master plan for the physical development of the state and prepare a program for the continued development of major improvements in the state. Additional duties of the commission were the preparation of maps and surveys for the use of state agencies and the performance of administrative and engineering work throughout Mississippi. In 1940, the commission was abolished, and its duties were transferred to the newly created Board of Development.

Collection Inventory:
Box Content 

Box Number

Altamaha Mobile Basin - Drainage History

625

Drainage Law Digest - Lower Miss. "A" Subcommittee, Yazoo Basin 

626

Lower Miss. Valley Basin – Miss. State Soil Conservation Dist. Law

627

Pearl/Pascagoula Basin – Yazoo Miss. Delta Levee Board

628

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