Gila River (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cye W. Gossett.

The Upper Gila class II survey inventoried 45.9 km2 (17.7 mi2) of landscape in eight project areas and identified 157 site locations reflecting prehistoric and historic occupation. The objectives of this chapter are to summarize the frequencies of occurrence and physical variations among those sites to enable evaluation of the relative magnitude of potential impacts upon different project areas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard C. Chapman. Cye W. Gossett. William J. Gossett.

This appendix contains basic descriptive information for all archaeological and historical site locations encountered during the Upper Gila Project survey. For each site location a brief narrative emphasizing setting, site content, and spatial arrangement of features is provided. Accompanying the narrative is a computer generated format which summarizes all other categories of information documented for each site. An explanation of the variables, variable titles, and variable codes is given...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard C. Chapman. Cye W. Gossett. William J. Gossett.

This volume presents the results of a class II cultural resource survey carried out as part of the Bureau of Reclamation Upper Gila Water Supply Study for the Central Arizona Project. The study includes four projects along the upper Gila River in the vicinity of Cliff, New Mexico and three projects along the lower San Francisco river northeast of Clifton, Arizona. A multistage sample survey resulted in inventory of 15 percent of the total land area encompassed by the seven projects, on about...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

During January of 1987, Statistical Research conducted a Class II cultural resources survey, for the Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado Region, of approximately 5,330 acres composed of 14 discrete parcels near the towns of Wellton and Tacna, Arizona. Approximately 25.2 percent of the project area was surveyed using a combination of judgmental and random transects. The judgmental sample concentrated on areas thought to have the highest probability of containing sites. A 15 percent random...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard C. Chapman. Others.

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PROJECT USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office.

The Cochran Survey was administered over a period of 25 months, beginning in April 1998 and ending in May 2000. As funding became available delivery orders were submitted from the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) to Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) to increase the survey coverage under their Section 110 mandate. Initially, the survey included portions of the USGS 7.5' North Butte and Grayback quadrangles near the historic site of Cochran, and was later expanded to include a second...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Dittert. Paul R. Fish. Don E. Simonis.

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) was authorized by the Colorado River Basin Act (P.L. 90-537) in 1968. The following year, the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University conducted a survey of the preliminary alignment of the Granite Reef Aqueduct and portions of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct for the Bureau of Reclamation under a National Park Service contract. The feasibility alignment extended from the Agua Fria River, southeast to the Gila River and was divided into eight sections: four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Alfred E. Dittert, Jr.. Paul R. Fish. Don E. Simonis.

One of several construction programs proposed for inclusion in the Central Arizona Project was a system of aqueducts to link Parker Dam on the Colorado River in western Arizona and the Charleston Damsite on the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona. Since the possibility existed that archaeological remains might be destroyed by necessary subjugation of lands for the aqueduct, the Southwest Archaeological Center of the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, made arrangements...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Roberta L. Hayworth. Lara S. Anderson.

In 1998, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District was contracted by Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Yuma Arizona, to research and write a cultural overview of the Yavapai tribe which would illustrate that they were at one time located in the region of Yuma Proving Ground. Under various laws, regulations, and policies the U.S. Army is required to consult with Native American tribes and to protect Native American sacred sites and traditional cultural properties. Consultation between YPG and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard W. Effland. Margerie Green.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Glen E. Rice.

The Arizona Department of Transportation began plans in 1985 to construct a new highway (State Route 218) in the Phoenix metropolitan area which would extend around the western and southern sides of South Mountain. This is a report on the historic and prehistoric cultural resources of the area. The construction of State Route 218 will be funded by the State of Arizona, and this work has been conducted under the State Historic ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jill Heilman.

At the request of Ritoch-Powell and FHWA and ADOT, EcoPlan conducted a Class III cultural resources survey along SR 303 in Surprise, Maricopa County, Arizona. Prior to conducting the field survey, a search of records at ASM, SHPO, and ADOT was undertaken. The field effort occurred on 18 November 2009, amounting to two days of effort. No cultural resources were encountered in the survey area. Additionally, no cultural resources were encountered by previous survey throughout the project area....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew Hill. Kimberly R. Kennedy. Edgar K. Huber.

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) proposes to construct and operate the 56-mile-long Palo Verde-Pinal West 500 kilovolt (kV) transmission line, which will deliver power from the Hassayampa Switchyard south of Wintersberg to the proposed Pinal West Substation in northwestern Pinal County about 24 miles south of Phoenix, in order to provide additional transmission capacity to support future growth in Maricopa, Pinal, and Pima counties. The SRI survey, conducted...

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

Archaeological Consulting Services was contracted to perform a Class III cultural resource survey of 235 acres around Coolidge Dam. This report provides information about the environment, the study methodology, previous regional research, Coolidge Dam construction history, and survey results. The only cultural resources located by the survey and/or known prior to the survey, date to the historic period. These include the dam itself and remains of the construction and maintenance facilities...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

The Town of Queen Creek is planning to construct a four-lane, divided rural roadway along the Riggs Road alignment using funds from the FHWA administered by the ADOT Local Government Section. The roadway will have a raised median and will be built within existing undeveloped land and agricultural fields. LSD previously conducted a cultural resources survey of an 80.5-acre area of potential effect (APE); however, the APE was subsequently expanded and now encompasses 98.2 acres. The current survey...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David A. Bild.

Salt River Project (SRP) requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a Class III cultural resources survey of a portion of the Arlington Wildlife Area (AWA), Maricopa County, Arizona. The project area is located on Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD) and private land on the west side of the Gila River. The project area includes a 33-ft-wide and 2,560-ft-long corridor centered on the main access road through private land and a 27.10-acre AGFD parcel that measures 2,360 ft...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed four Class III cultural resources surveys as part of the Santan pipeline expansion project. The surveys were conducted at the request of the Salt River Project (SRP). The surveyed areas represent changes or additions to the original pipeline alignment (see Lindly et al. 2002). The additions consist of a temporary construction easement (TCE), a block survey for possible realignments, and two additional realignments of segments of the pipeline...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Class III cultural resources survey of planned right-of-way easement for installation of an underground 12 kV electric line to serve as a tie-in between Johnson Ranch and the Webber Substation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Regina L. Chapin-Pyritz. Matthew Hill, Jr..

GBPP (Gila Bend Power Partners) proposes to construct and operate a 500kV transmission line, which will deliver electrical power from the Hassayampa Switchyard south of Wintersburg, Arizona to the Jojoba Switchyard currently under construction in south-central Maricopa County, Arizona. The project will increase the transmission of electrical power into areas surrounding metropolitan Phoenix, and will promote economic development of benefit to the people of Arizona. GBPP retained EPG...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Doelle. F. E. Bayham. E. W. Jernigan. J. R. Wyant.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, were in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matt Bischoff.

With the German Afrika Korps driving across the North African desert with impunity in 1941 and 1942, the U.S. Army realized that it might be called upon to assist its British ally in the fight against the Germans and Italians. Egypt, along with the strategic Suez Canal and the Middle East in general, was in danger of being lost to the Axis powers. It became imperative that the Axis be expelled from North Africa. The U.S. Army, however, had never fought a large-scale war in a desert environment....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser.

This paper will synthesize the macrobotanical findings from the Tucson Aqueduct Project, Phase A (TAP), conducted by the Museum of Northern Arizona and will highlight some of the pollen and flotation results from the Salt-Gila Aqueduct Project (SGA), completed by the Arizona State Museum. Both projects were segments of the Central Arizona Project, a huge canal bringing water from the Colorado River to the farms and towns of southern Arizona. The ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Lewis.

In 1892 Judge Joseph H. Kibbey, one of Arizona's illustrious pioneers, described the Salt River Valley before the settlers came as a desert, uninhabited except by jack rabbits, coyotes, and rattlesnakes. Its main vegetation was sagebrush and cactus. It was a level, fertile valley about fifteen miles wide, through which the Salt River flowed west for forty miles to its junction with the Gila. The Salt River was a fluctuating stream. Sometimes it was a raging torrent which flooded the level land...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James E. Fitting.

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