Farmers Home Administration
Records Available at the National Archives at Fort Worth
Administrative History
The Farmers Home Administration (FHA) was established in the Department of Agriculture by an act of August 14, 1946, to succeed the Farm Security Administration (FSA), which had been established in 1937. The FSA succeeded the Resettlement Administration, which had been established in 1935 to administer rural rehabilitation and land programs begun in 1933 under the Subsistence Homesteads Division of the Department of the Interior and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. The FHA provides small farmers with credit to construct or repair homes, improve farming operations, or become farm owners, and gives individual guidance in farm and home management.
The National Archives at Fort Worth holds records of the following regions:
- Records of Region 6 (Little Rock)
- Records of Region 8 (Dallas)
- Records of Region 12 (Amarillo)
- Records of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation Dallas, Texas
Appendix I contains a listing of the projects for the series,"Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942."
Appendix II contains a list of counties in major farming areas, for which there are representative rural rehabilitation loan case files,"Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944."
Records of Region 6 (Little Rock, Arkansas)
This region covered the states of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
| Series Title | NARA ID | Local Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Farm Ownership Case Files, 1938 - 1946 | 720073 | 96NRF-1 |
Records of Region 8 (Dallas, Texas)
This region covered the states of Oklahoma (part), and Texas (part).
| Series Title | NARA ID | Local Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Director's General Correspondence, 1935 - 1942 | 720183 | 96NRF-2 |
| Farm Ownership Case Files, 1938 - 1946 | 720184 | 96NRF-3 |
| Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942 | 720186 | 96NRF-4 |
Records of Region 12 (Amarillo, Texas)
This region covered the states of Arizona (part), Colorado (part), Kansas (part), Texas (part), New Mexico (part), and Oklahoma (part)
| Series Title | NARA ID | Local Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Director's General Correspondence, 1935 - 1942 | 720187 | 96NRF-5 |
| Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944 | 720189 | 96NRF-6 |
Records of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation Dallas, Texas
| Series Title | NARA ID | Local Identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Correspondence with the Loan Representative, 1943 - 1944 | 2575517 | 96NRF-7 |
| Correspondence with the Board Representative, 1943 - 1945 | 2575522 | 96NRF-8 |
Appendix I
Listing of the projects for the series,"Resettlement Projects Records, 1936 - 1942."
OK 2 Muskogee (Cookson Hills Development Project)
OK 17 Muskogee (Eastern Oklahoma Farms)
OK 19 Bryan County Farms Project
TX 7 Bonham (Northeast Texas Land Utilization Project)
TX 10 Woodlake (National Youth Adm. Project)
TX 16 Delta County
TX 18 Wichita Falls (Wichita Valley Farms)
TX 19 Highlands (Sam Houston Farms)
TX 21 Bexar County area (Intercoastal Prairie Project)
TX 22 Sherman (Texas Farm Tenant Security Project)
TX 24 Marshall (Sabine Farms)
TX 25 Bonham (Fannin Farms)
TX 32 Raymondville Migratory Camp
TX 33 Robstown Migratory Camp
TX 34 Sinton Migratory Camp
TX 35 Weslaco Migratory Camp
TX 36 Harlingen Migratory Camp
TX 37 McAllen Migratory Camp
TX 38 Crystal City Migratory Camp
TX 39 Princeton Migratory Camp
TX 41 Lamesa Migratory Camp
TX 53 Ropesville Migratory Camp
TX 55 Mexia Migratory Camp
TX 56 Nacogdoches Migratory Camp
TX 57 McLennan County (McLennan Farms)
TX 58 Cochran County
Appendix II
List of counties in major farming areas, for which there are representative rural rehabilitation loan case files, "Rural Rehabilitation Loan Case Files, 1935 - 1944."
Arkansas
- Benton
- Lonoke
- Pulaski
Louisiana
- Assumption
- Avoyelles
- St. Helena
Oklahoma
- Lincoln
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Pittsburg
Texas
- Brazoria
- Dallas
- Dawson
- El Paso
- Hamilton
- Haskell
- Jeff Davis
- Kendall
- La Salle
- Leon
- Nueces
- Randall
- San Jacinto
- Throckmorton
- Willacy
- Wise