Torrance County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Tianna Crollett.

This report presents the results of an archaeological survey in support of a potential military drop zone near Kirtland Air Force Base. Three isolated finds, one prehistoric, and two historic, were discovered. However, based on the absence significant cultural remains in the project area, clearance for the proposed undertaking is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 0.9 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The permit area has been extensively disturbed by previous construction. Potentially due to this previous disturbance and, to the general limited number of archaeological sites located on the western mountain piedmont slope, no significant cultural resources were located. The results of this survey concurs with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 1.1 acres of property situated within Area I, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no cultural resources. The area surveyed is located on the western piedmont of the Manzano Mountains, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The survey was conducted prior to construction of a proposed communication switch building. Although the communication switch building will result in disturbance of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey has recently been completed by Chambers Group, Inc. for 13.1 acres of land leased by Sandia National Laboratories from Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The survey was performed prior to construction on a 10.6 acre building site of a facility to serve as the Deployable Seismic Verification System Site II, and on a 2.5 acre alignment scheduled for construction as an access road. One isolated occurrence (IO) was located within the proposed facility...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey has recently been completed by Chambers Group, Inc. for 21.7 acres of land situated on Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The survey was performed prior to construction on a 21.5 acre building site to serve as the Explosive Components Facility (ECF) and 0.26 acres in a road segment proposed for access. Three isolated occurrences (IO) were located within the proposed facility construction site. These IOs include a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 4.2 acres of property located within Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no cultural resources. It was preformed prior to construction of an access route to connect two existing facilities. The approximately 1.4 kilometers (0.87 mile) long connecting road was surveyed to a width of 12 meters (40 feet). This proposed road is situated within an area previously inventoried during the Kirtland Air Force Base, Management Area B...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey has recently been completed by Chambers Group, Inc. for 5.66 acres of land situated on Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The survey was performed prior to construction on a 4.16 acre site of a building to serve as the Integrated Materials Research Laboratory (IMRL), and 1.6 acres in an alignment proposed for a new 115 kv powerline. The proposed facility construction zone and most of the powerline alignment have been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brianne Sisneros. Paisley Palmer. Mark Williams. Cherie K Walth.

SWCA surveyed 50.00 acres on behalf of Kirtland Air Force Base and identified six archaeological sites and 10 IOs. One archaeological site (LA 194069) is a newly recorded site. Data from ARMS suggested that the survey area would also encounter LA 107704, LA 108123, LA 121916, LA 121919, and LA 138016. During the current investigation, SWCA found the ARMS proxy circle and other site boundaries for LA 107704, LA 108123, LA 121916, LA 121919, and LA 138016 to be inaccurately depicted on the ARMS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John A. Evaskovich. Deni J. Seymour.

Mariah Associates, Inc. completed a Class III Cultural Resource Inventory for a gravel quarry located on Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The survey was requested by Wayne Frasier of Mountain States Constructors, Inc. The project encompassed an 18.5 acre area for the quarry and related facilities, and a surrounding buffer zone of 35.5 acres for future expansion. In all, approximately 54 acres were surveyed. Ten isolated occurrences and a single archaeological site were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of 56.7 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. No significant cultural resource sites were located during the pedestrian survey. The results of this survey concurs with a previous cultural resource inventory conducted for Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB) Management Area B, which included this proposed permit area. This previous survey located no significant archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 6.4 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The survey was conducted antecedent to continued use of Sandia National Laboratories Video Technology Laboratory (VTL) Facility. The permit area has been extensively disturbed by previous construction and use of the area over the past several years. Primarily due to this previous disturbance and the fact that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 65 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no significant cultural resources. The area has been extensively disturbed by use of the area over the past twenty to thirty years. In part due to this previous disturbance and the fact that much of the area is situated within the valley drainage bottom and within the floodplain, no significant cultural resource sites were located. The results of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 9. 5 acres of property situated within Area I, Sandia National Laboratories, Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, yielded no cultural resources. The area surveyed is located on the western piedmont of the Manzano Mountains, south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The survey was conducted for a new fill area site and associated haul route. Remains of a partially dismantled and fairly deteriorated centrifuge facility site is located within the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ted M. Payne.

In 1982, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. conducted an on-ground prehistoric and historical archaeological cultural resources survey within the Madera Canyon and Archeological Area IV Project Areas on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 18 cultural resources were located. Sixteen of these sites were affiliated with Amerindian cultures spanning the early Archaic through the Historic periods. The remaining two sites consisted of a probable historic mine shaft and the second...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ted M. Payne.

In 1982, Cultural Heritage Research Services, Inc. conducted an on-ground prehistoric and historical archaeological cultural resources survey within the Madera Canyon and Archeological Area IV Project Areas on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. A total of 18 cultural resources were located. Sixteen of these sites were affiliated with American Indian cultures spanning the early Archaic through the Historic periods. The remaining two sites consisted of a probable historic mine shaft and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of an archaeological survey conducted on approximately 7.6 acres of the Sandia Ranger District. This survey revisited the AR 03-03-05-167 and found that there were no conflicts with the proposed project

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of an archaeological survey conducted on approximately 7.6 acres of the Sandia Ranger District. A constructed feature, AR 03-03-05-167, composed of arranged rock and dirt fill was located in the area of the planned change in road alignment. This feature is very likely to have served as a check dam. Due to the lack of any cultural material onsite or other kinds of cultural resource sites within the vicinity, no cultural affiliation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia B. Benedict.

Prior to the construction of fire management activities at Kirtland Air Force Base, the Cibola National Forest undertook a survey for cultural resources in the proposed area of impact. The surveyors determined that the sites be treated as eligible until further study could be conducted.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

An archaeological survey of approximately 20. 6 acres situated within two tracts of land, yielded no significant cultural resources. A small portion of the northeast corner of Tract One (approx. 0.46 acres) was previously surveyed by the Center of Anthropological Studies (Franklin and Neal 1981). No cultural resources were located within Tract One during this previous inventory. The current inventory resulted in the recordation of nine isolated occurrences (IOs), one in Tract One (IO #1) and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joan Wilkes.

A survey was done on 5 acres of Sandia District of the Cibola National Forest for a project involving closing a road to an area which has been used for target practice. It is trashed and worn and will be rehabilitated by cleaning (broken glass in particular) and mulching and planting grass. In addition a small parking lot will be constructed just off the highway for recreation users of the area (not including shooting, since this activity is now prohibited on the Sandia District). Heavy...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resources survey for a proposed installation, use, and maintenance of two aerial cables and associated winch and anchor points on the Cibola National Forest covering approximately one acre. The project is situated in Sections 19, 20, and 21 within the Military Withdrawal for Sandia National Laboratories. Thorough survey of the areas failed to reveal any evidence of cultural resources.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John S. Hayden.

A cultural resources survey was done on 0.16 acres for a road and laser tracker pad within PLO 995 in Sol se Mete Canyon on the Sandia Ranger District of the Cibola National Forest. No evidence of archeological activity was found. Cultural resources clearance is recommended.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Hayden.

This report documents the performance and findings of a cultural resource survey for a project involving digging fox holes for military training maneuvers on Kirtland Air Force Base. No evidence of cultural resources were found.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland.

A cultural resource survey of approximately 13.3 acres of property situated within Cibola National Forest withdrawn lands, Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico, was recently completed at two locales proposed for geophysical test alignments. The surveys resulted in the recordation of five isolated occurrences (IOs). These isolated occurrences are no longer thought to be potentially significant as all important information has been recovered through field recordation. For...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven R. Hoagland. Robert Dello-Russo.

Butler Service Group Inc. (BSG) conducted cultural resource surveys for approximately 27.65 acres of property situated within Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB), Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The areas surveyed include the nine drill locales with buffer zones and an access route. Paved or dirt roads provide access into all but one of the drill site buffer zones. The two-track road providing access into the remaining drill site, Arroyo Confluence South (ACS), was surveyed. One previously documented...