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Site name: 3D Ranch

Nearest town: El Dorado; State/country: Kansas; Type of site: Historic dairy farm; Date of site: 1860s; Collaborators: Brown County Historical Society.

Type of survey: Resistivity; Instrument: Geoscan Research RM-15; Prospection depth: 1 m; Sampling interval: 1 x 1 m; Area surveyed: 20 x 20 m; Date of survey: 7/97.

Comments: This site represents a pioneer settlement in Kansas that was reportedly a dairy farm. Surface artifacts support an 1860s and later occupation, including a stone-lined well and some foundation blocks near the survey area. The area surveyed may represent the locus of a barn-like structure.

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(updated: 7/00)