The materials in this collection cover a wide-range of topics including special attention to architecture, foodways, community activities, religious activity and local history. Note: In fieldnotes and in the register LDS and Mormon refer to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. For an overview of the project, researchers are directed to the publication The Grouse Creek Cultural Survey by Carter and Fleischhauer. All written and recorded materials are housed in acid-free archival boxes and folders in the Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives, USU Libraries.

The collection was originally processed by Barbara [Walker] Lloyd. The collection register was revised and the collection was moved from a filing cabinet to archival boxes and archival folders and the collection register was encoded by Randy Williams in June 2004.

The bulk of the project includes approximately 232 pages of fieldnotes; 41 reel-to-reel tapes, one videocassette tape, and 30 cassette tapes of audio materials, plus accompanying log sheets; 73 rolls of black and white photographic images (including contact sheets and negatives) and 131 sheets of color slides plus accompanying log sheets; 95 architectural site reports; 824 pages of copies of the transcriptions of twenty-one interviews conducted prior to the cultural survey; four sets of maps/drawings; and some miscellaneous materials. The original materials are housed in the Fife Folklore Archives, Special Collections and Archives, USU Libraries and copies of the original holdings are housed in the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, and portions at the Utah Folk Arts Council and at the Utah State Historical Society.

A general description of the materials in the survey is provided in this inventory, but more in depth description of the materials will be found in the collection's 250-plus pages of logs. The media holdings of the Grouse Creek Cultural Survey were assigned project identification letters and numbers in the field. Letter codes were used to identify the type of media and the fieldworker responsible as follows:

Some materials contain a GCCS reference which stands for Grouse Creek Cultural Survey. Numbers generally represent a sequential ordering. Thus, a reference number such as FHC850702 stands for fieldnotes by Hal Cannon for 2 July 1985; CTC001.1 stands for a color photographic image, by Tom Carter, sheet number one, image one; the number RHC026 stands for reel-to-reel tape recording, by Hal Cannon, tape number 26; BCE25495.1 is a black & white photographic image, by Carol Edison, sheet number 25495, image one. NOTE: Black and white negatives and corresponding sheet numbers are identified by a five digit number. All references are in alphabetical and numerical order within each media category. Dates on documentation forms are written with the year first followed by the month and day; thus 850702 would translate as July 2, 1985.