Dust Bowl Great Depression Map. The dust bowl and the great depression. The dust bowl intensified the wrath of the great depression.
All cities and states on the outline map on the back of this page. •in 1932, there were 14 dust storms recorded on the plains (an area that included the panhandle of oklahoma and texas, southwest kansas, southeastern colorado, and nebraska). The map was designed to assist dust bowl families in relocating to migrant camps in california.
Baca county was among the areas hardest hit, near the center of what was named the dust bowl.
More than one million acres of land were affected during the dust bowl of the 1930s. The agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the great depression, whose effects were felt worldwide. It was created by the rural rehabilitation division to show areas where different crops are grown, proposed location of initial camps for migrants and routes of migration. In the early 1930s, because of severe drought, poor farming practices, and prolonged wind storms, much of the heart of america became a giant dust bowl.