Salt River Valley (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman. Helana Ruter. Daniel H. Sorrell. J. Simon Bruder.

At the request of Olsson Associates, Inc. (Olsson), EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) cultural resource specialists relocated and assessed where possible National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eligibility for known cultural resources within both the Phoenix- and Tempe-owned portions of Papago Park, Maricopa County, Arizona. This research was done in support of a new regional master plan for the park. The master plan is being developed cooperatively by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian...

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,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Arizona State University (ASU).

Papago Park in the City of Tempe extends from Tempe Butte northward across the Salt River bed into the southern portion of the Papago hills. The archaeological sites in the park are relatively small, but they represent both the Indian and Anglo occupation of the Salt River Valley, and span more than one thousand years of history (A.D. 800 to late 1800s and early 1900s). Excavations at two of the sites have produced artifacts dating to a) the prehistoric Indian period, b) the early historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Northland Research, Inc..

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) prepared this research proposal in response to a request from Judy Brunson of Salt River Project (SRP) for archaeological investigations of a portion of AZ U:9:116(ASM), also known as Los Guanacos (other designations include AZ U:9:41[ASU], AZ U:9:71[ASU], and Alta Vista). The project area consists of the proposed site of the SRP Central Support Complex in Tempe, Arizona. Archaeological Research Services (ARS) conducted archaeological testing of this...

DATASET M Scott Thompson.

The Prehispanic American Southeast and Southwest Comparative Mortuary Database is a relational database that served as the primary data management tool for the dissertation titled "Interactions with the Incorporeal in the Mississippian and Ancestral Puebloan Worlds." The database contains mortuary data for the following prehistoric settlements: Mississippian - Irene Mounds site Zuni area - Hawikku and Kechiba:wa Hohokam (Salt River Valley) - Pueblo Grande, Casa Buena, Grand Canal Ruins,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Susan S. Burton.

This report provides a regional archaeological overview prepared for the Montezuma Hydroelectric Pumped-Storage Project by the Office of Cultural Resource Management, Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, under contract with the Salt River Project, Phoenix, Arizona. Specifically, it is designed to fulfill the archaeological data requirements for the Phase I Regional Study outlined by Wirth Associates, the consulting firm coordinating all environmental studies connected with the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland, Jr..

Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) propose to construct three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposes to build a new line which will connect the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Butte substations. APS proposes to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Archaeological Consulting Services...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Stubing. Saskia Grupp.

In May of 2005, Carter & Burgess conducted phase I data recovery at AZ 11:9:67 (ASM), also known as La Lomita, in Phoenix, Arizona, The data recovery was conducted to determine the nature and extent of the site within the proposed Escaia at Central City apartment complex, which is partially located within the recorded boundaries of La Lomita. The data recovery consisted of the excavation of 440 meters (m) of backhoe trenches within La Lomita, and an additional 30 m south of the site boundary in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Autobee.

Humanity's resourcefulness inspired two attempts to draw life out of the desolation of Central Arizona's Salt River Valley over the past 1,500 years. Building over the remains of an irrigation culture left behind by lost Indian tribe, the Hohokam, federal and private engineers of the early 20th Century adapted much when the United States Reclamation Service completed first its major work, the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The scale of Reclamation's plans separate the two efforts. The Roosevelt Dam...

IMAGE Department of the Interior - U.S. Reclamation Service. Salt River Project.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

The Salt River Project Diversion and Conveyance Historic District consists of nine main canals, the diversion dam that feeds water to those canals, and one hydropower plant situated on one of those canals. The contributing properties are: Granite Reef Diversion Dam (a structure); the Southside Gatekeeper’s house at the dam (a building); three canals serving land on the north side of the Salt River (the Arizona, Grand, and New Crosscut canals, all structures); six canals serving land on the south...

IMAGE T.A. Hayden.

Birdseye view of artist, T.A. Hayden depiction of the Salt River Valley and SRP's service territory with the dams they operate.

IMAGE U.S. Department of the Interior - Bureau of Reclamation.

June 1950. United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation - Salt River Project, Arizona Region 3, map no. 25-300-2. This map depicts Salt River Project service territory, dams at the time with the transmission lines and voltage listed, and the major canals.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynne MacDonald. Jim Bailey.

Pursuant to a 2009 Programmatic Agreement between the Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office, the Salt River Project, and the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office, the Bureau of Reclamation prepared documentation formally nominating the Salt River Project system of dams and main canals to the National Register of Historic Places (Register). The Salt River Project Multiple Property Submission (MPS) was formally accepted and listed on the Register on August 7, 2017. This is the Salt...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Salt River Valley Water Users' Association.

1918, map of Salt River Project service territory with canals, waterways, and transmission lines marked.

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. W. Crenshaw.

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...

IMAGE Rand, Mc Nally & Co., Engr's, Chicago. C.J. Dyer.

1887 map depicting the Salt River Valley, Arizona with the main canals and waterways with townsites marked.

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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."

DOCUMENT Full-Text Desert Archaeology, Inc.. Arizona Preservation Consultants.

The Salt River is a large and powerful river. While its size and power present major challenges even today, it is the ultimate source of much of the growth of Phoenix in both the city's prehistoric incarnation and in its second form as the nation's sixth largest metropolis. The project that defined the focus of this report (see locational map, inside front cover) wraps around three sides of today's much larger Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. In some ways, the boundaries that frame...

IMAGE Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District. Ford, Bacon & Davis, Incorporated Engineers.

June 16, 1958. S.R.P.A.I.P.D. Phoenix, Arizona - Service Area of Salt River Power District by Ford, Bacon & Davis Incorporated Engineers. Map No. U-6585A This map shows the various power plants, substations, transmission lines, and dams that SRP operated.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Stan Plum.

The Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona was once occupied by the prehistoric Hohokam, a group of agriculturalists who constructed thousands of kilometers of irrigation canals as well as public architecture, including platform mounds and bailcourts. They also appear to have been keen astronomical observers, although the subject of Hohokam archaeoastronomy remains underexplored. This paper summarizes previous Hohokam archaeoastronomy studies, discusses O'odham (Piman) Indian calendar systems,...

PROJECT Gordon Rakita. M Scott Thompson.

The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...

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Water and power are foundational building blocks for the continual development of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area. On March 18, 1911, Theodore Roosevelt Dam was dedicated and the cornerstone was set for dependable water and power to the Salt River Valley. The vital resources from the dam now reliably serve one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas. Standing for More Than a Century simultaneously celebrates Roosevelt Dam’s centennial and illustrates significant events in the Valley’s...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim Bailey.

Stewart Mountain Dam, constructed between 1928 and 1930, was the third dam built by the Salt River Valley Valley Water Users' Association (Association) in its aggressive, and privately-funded, hydroelectric expansion program. In 1936, the Bureau of Reclamation modified the spillway discharge channel, reconditioned hoisting equipment for the radial gates, and installed individual gate operating motors. Stewart Mountain Dam consists of the dam, the left abutment spillway, and the powerhouse. The...

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This is, in the end, the story of those who call the Valley of the Sun home. From its earliest conception, SRP was created by—and for—the communities it serves. Over time, SRP’s water and power services have helped ensure the successful achievement of its original purpose: the economic development of the Valley and the region. When the Association was formed in 1903, the population of Maricopa County was barely twenty thousand. On his visit to the Valley just eight years later for the dedication...