Mesa (Geographic Keyword)
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The PMGAA proposes to develop a portion of the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (Airport) for an airline service center. This proposed development would affect Locus 2 of site AZ U:10:69(ASM), a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)–listed archaeological site. The Airport is located at the former Williams Air Force Base in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. The PMGAA manages historic properties within the Airport in accordance with a Programmatic Agreement established in 1995 between the U.S. Air...
Research Design and Testing Plan for Four Sites Along the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) From Gilbert Road to Higley Road, Mesa, Arizona (2000)
This document consists of a research design and work plan for archaeological testing at four cultural resource sites within the proposed Red Mountain Freeway (RMF), Gilbert Road to Higley Road segment in Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona. Testing will be conducted to evaluate the eligibility of AZ U:9:226 (ASM), AZ U:10:117 (ASM), AZ U:10:122 (ASM), and AZ U:10:123 (ASM) for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) prior to proposed construction of the RMF. Nine cultural...
Results of Eligibility Testing and Data Recovery Plan for Two Archaeological Sites Along the Arizona Department of Transportation Red Mountain Freeway (State Route 202) Project Right-of-Way (SR 87 to Gilbert Road) (2000)
The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Route (US) 60. This project will result in the construction of a new limited access six-lane freeway. Construction on the right-of-way is currently confined to the area between SR 87 and Gilbert Road. The proposed route runs through an area of dense historic and prehistoric cultural resources south of McDowell Road, and passes through the northern edge of...
Return to Siphon Draw: Archaeological Investigations Along the Browning to Dinosaur 500kV/230kV Transmission Line, Pinal County, Arizona (2009)
The results of archaeological investigations at three prehistoric Hohokam sites within the right-of-way corridor for the Salt River Project Browning to Dinosaur Transmission Line, east of Mesa and Queen Creek, Arizona, are presented in this report. The sites include the Siphon Draw site, AZ U:10:6 (ASM), a pre-Classic period (circa A.D. 800-1000) village; AZ U:10:8 (ASM), a classic period (circa A.D. 1150-1450) wild resource-processing and habitation site; and AZ U:10:172 (ASM), a Colonial...
Salt River Project - Project Map (1914)
July 22, 1914. Department of the Interior, United States Reclamation Service, Salt River Project - Project Map prepared by the Board of Survey in Limiting the Area of the Project. Map depicts canals, ditches, and waterways within SRPs service territory, along with transmission lines, and other developed areas of Maricopa County.
Salt River Project - Project Map (1916)
March 1, 1916 Department of the Interior United States Reclamation Service, Salt River Project - Project Map prepared in the Department of Operation and Maintenance, Phoenix, Arizona. Map depicts canals, ditches, waterways and transmission lines within SRP's service territory in 1916, along with developments within Maricopa County.
Salt River Project Map (1934)
Birdseye view of artist, T.A. Hayden depiction of the Salt River Valley and SRP's service territory with the dams they operate.
Salt River Valley, Arizona (1907)
A promotional pamphlet to entice people to move to "A Land of Sunshine, Health and Prosperity. A Soil Unsurpassed in Productiveness. A Country of Wonderful Opportunities." by the Commissioner of Immigration of Maricopa County. "For sometime the tide of immigration has been turned towards the great Southwest and in recent years, by reason of the possibilities and opportunities offered in mining, stock raising and agricultural pursuits, Arizona, which for so long a time was regarded as a desert...
The Salt River Valley, Arizona Map (1907)
1907 map of the Salt River Valley, Arizona irrigated by the Roosevelt Dam. "In this valley under the irrigation project. The valley has been under cultivation since 1865, no pioneering to be done. Neighbors are close at hand, churches and schools at regular intervals as shown below. For further information write Geo. W. Cowgill, Secretary Phoenix Board of Trade, Phoenix, Arizona."
SRP Facilities and Federal Properties Reconnaissance (2002)
This report was conducted by URS Corporation in January of 2002. It identifies SRP water and irrigation facilities and federal properties that could be impacted by a lightrail crossing. There also are notes requesting SRP identification of features. The areas covered in this reconnaissance include the cities of Phoenix, Tempe, and Mesa. Most of the impacted features are gate structures and laterals.
Testing and Data Recovery at the Nance Site (AZ U:9:276[ASM]), Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona (2007)
The Nance Site was a seasonally occupied field house site located in the interior of the Salt River floodplain. Current evidence indicates that the site was sporadically occupied in the late Pioneer through the middle Classic periods. Stratigraphic evidence suggests a human presence in the general vicinity of the site during the Early Agricultural/Early Ceramic Periods; a single thermal pit (Feature 19) was found 1.4 m below the surface. The economic activities of the Hohokam inhabitants...