Phoenix (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank B. Fryman, Jr.. J. W. Woodward, Jr.. J. W. Garrison.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Neal W. Ackerly. Jerry B. Howard. Randall H. McGuire.

The nineteenth-century farmers, merchants, and prospectors who settled in the Salt River Valley of Arizona encountered one of the most dense and most visible concentrations of prehistoric ruins in North America. They named their new city Phoenix because they envisioned it rising up from the ashes of the prehistoric Hohokam culture. One of the most pronounced features discovered was large irrigation canals that stretched across most of the valley floor--an ancient irrigation network, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalie Waugh.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

Archaeological investigations were conducted at the prehistoric Hohokam Site ofLa Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)) in Phoenix, Arizona, sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation. The portion of the site within the project area contained over 30 pithouses, 20 burials, several prehistoric canal segments, and numerous pits. La Lomita was primarily occupied during the late Santa Cruz and Sacaton phases, ranging from about A.D. 890 to 1025. Several house groups were identified, representing a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John W. Hohmann. Margaret Davis. W. Bryan Cole.

The Cultural Resource Division of the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger) was retained by ProLogis to conduct archaeological testing on private land for the subsequent sale and future development of 160 acres of farmland located at Lower Buckeye Road and 55th Avenue in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. This letter report details the results of the archaeological testing conducted on this property. Report revised September 4, 2009 and final report submitted September 30, 2009

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffrey M. Lalande.

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IMAGE Wm. H. Becker.

This is a discriminatory redlined map that separated neighborhoods depending on income, race and ethnicity within central Phoenix. It also states which schools that had black and brown students in attendance. The data is from The Real Property Inventory Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce, with each color indicating average monthly rental for each block. With rental classes indicated as follows: less than $10.00 a month is blue. $10.00 to $19.99 a month is yellow. $20.00 to $29.99 a month is...

IMAGE Dr. Omar A. Turney.

Fifth edition 1929 map of Prehistoric Irrigation Canals, The Land of the Stone Hoe. The locations of the prehistoric canals and settlements are marked within the Salt River Valley area.

IMAGE Salt River Valley Water Users' Association.

1934, map of Salt River Project service territory with canals, waterways, and transmission lines marked.

IMAGE Salt River Valley Water Users' Association.

August 22, 1946. Map of Salt River Project service territory water uses with city lines, canals, waterways marked.

IMAGE C.J. Dyer. Theo L. Schultz. A.M. Franklin. Rand, McNally & Co., Engravers, Chicago.

1892 map of Salt River Valley, Arizona and the Consolidated Canal System, the South Side Fruit Belt complied and corrected by Schultz & Franklin. With references of "remains of ancient Aztec Canals" and "Ancient Ruins and Mounds" which refer to the Huhugam. Excerpt from the map: Land with perpetual water right at from $25 to $35 per acre. Water free of charge for three years, thereafter the regular annual charge of $1 per acre per year. And as an inducement we will to the first 20 settlers...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted a comprehensive Class III archaeological survey of expanded right-of-way at eight point-of-turn towers as part of ongoing cultural resources compliance for the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission line project (Figure 1). These activities constituted only one phase of cultural resource compliance for this project undertaken by SWCA for Salt River Project (SRP). Other phases relevant to this project include relocation and re-evaluation (Anduze...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Preston C. Payton. David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants (SWCA), conducted a comprehensive Class III archaeological survey of expanded right-of-way at ten point-of-turn towers as part of ongoing cultural resources compliance for the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission line project. These activities constituted only one phase of cultural resource compliance for this project undertaken by SWCA for Salt River Project (SRP). Other phases relevant to this project include relocation and re-evaluation (Anduze and Sorrel...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Anduze. Danny Sorrell.

Salt River Project is constructing a 500kV transmission line along a 250-mile right-of-way from the Marketplace Substation to the Mead Substation, both near Boulder City, Nevada, to the Westwing Substation northwest of Phoenix, Arizona, near Sun City. The right-of-way is adjacent to and parallels the existing Mead to Liberty 345kV Transmission Line for most of the project area. A 200-foot right-of-way was previously surveyed by the Museum of Northern Arizona (Keller 1986). The present project...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Anduze. Dawn M. Greenwald. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze.

Salt River Project (SRP) contracted with SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, to conduct archaeological data recovery at the Overkill Site, AZ M:7:48(ASM), as part of the Mead to Phoenix 500 kV Transmission Line project. The Overkill Site is located on federal land administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The site is located approximately 15 miles south of Wikieup in Mohave County, Arizona. AZ M:7:48(ASM) is situated on a ridge between Burro Creek...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

Salt River Project constructed a 500kV transmission line from Boulder City, Nevada, to near Phoenix, Arizona, during which SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, monitored construction at 20 previously recorded archaeological sites. Monitoring took the form of damage assessments at six sites and one non-site location, active monitoring of construction at 15 sites, inspections of site conditions and reflagging at two sites, and examination of possible human remains and monitoring at one location...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wirth Environmental Services.

Western Area Power Administration (Western), Salt River Project (SRP), Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and M-S-R Public Power Agency (Modesto-Santa Clara-Redding) propose to construct, operate and maintain a ±500kV direct current (DC) transmission line from the Phoenix area in Arizona to the Mead Substation near Boulder City, Nevada (see Figure 2-1). The proposal includes a ±500kV DC transmission line, two terminal facilities, associated communication facilities, and ground...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William A. Vaughan.

The land use study was conducted by Wirth Associates as a portion of the environmental studies for the proposed Western Area Power Administration (Western), Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and the Salt River Project (SRP) Mead to Phoenix Area ±500kV DC Transmission Line Project. This report is composed of inventory and impact assessment sections for the alternative 500kV transmission corridors between the Mead Substation and the Westwing Substation in addition to the proposed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text William A. Vaughan.

The purpose of this study was to project the levels of archaeological and historical sensitivity and determine relative levels of impacts that could potentially occur with the introduction of the proposed Mead to Phoenix ±500kV DC Transmission Line. The results of the regional study, conducted from July through September of 1982, identifies previously recorded archaeological and historical sites, predicts areas where encountering sites are probable and establishes criteria to determine the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry B. Howard. Gary Huckleberry.

Archaeological investigations sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) were conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) at several sites within the East Papago Freeway corridor, including El Caserío (AZ T:12:49(ASM)), La Lomita (AZ U:9:67(ASM)), and La Lomita Pequeña (AZ U:9:66(ASM)). During the investigation of these sites, a significant number of canal alignments were encountered, prompting the sponsoring of the East Papago Canal Study by ADOT. Canal System 2, traversed by the...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Joshua Watts

The Intersections project is an electronic archive of the archaeological monographs written for archaeological projects conducted at Hohokam sites on Canal System Two and funded by the Federal and Arizona departments of transportation. The searchable electronic archive includes the contents of about 37 separate volumes reporting on the findings of 11 different archaeological projects. The Intersections project was funded by the Federal Highway Administration through the Arizona Department of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Michael Barton. Stephen R. James. Nicholas Lancaster.

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IMAGE Uploaded by: Katelyn Roessel

"Funding for data collection and map production provided by Arizona Department of Transportation Contract No. 85-33. This map is based on the named USGS 7.5 minute series topographic map. Prehistoric information compiled from various sources by Jerry B. Howard. See Howard and Huckleberry (1991: Chapter 2) for further explanation of data sources and map compilation methods. Some errors and inconsistencies could not be rectified during the production process by Soil Systems, Inc. and GEO-MAP,...

IMAGE G.S. Foster.

October 1915 City Map of Phoenix, Arizona by G.S. Foster Civil Engineer. Map depicts the original townsite, fairgrounds, schools, hospital, and other growth within Phoenix at the time, along with a depiction of the Capital Building in the top left corner.

IMAGE C.J. Dyer.

1890 panorama of Phoenix, Arizona in the Salt River Valley view looking northeast. "Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, has a population of about 7000 people, and is situated in the Salt River Valley, twenty-eight miles north of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with which it is connected by the Maricopa & Phoenix Railroad. Phoenix has several fine public schools, many handsome private residences, broad, shaded streets, at the sides of which water is always flowing; a line of street railway, gas,...