Maricopa County (County) (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert B. Neily. Jackie L. Orcholl.

Between August 13 and 24, 2007, Phase I data recovery excavations were conducted within a 1,550-m-long by 43-m-wide segment of the planned Riggs Road corridor that extends through the northern portion of AZ U:14:49 (ASM)—also known as Pozos de Sonoqui—a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)- eligible prehistoric site in southeastern Maricopa County. The project uses Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) funding to be administered by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Local...

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 John W. Hohmann.

Chicanos por la Causa, Inc. (CPLC), with a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CDBG grant provided by the City of Phoenix, requested that the Cultural Resource Division of the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger) undertake limited Phase II archaeological testing at their proposed DeColores Domestic Violence Shelter Expansion site to ensure proper treatment and protection, if warranted, of any existing cultural resources. Due to the potential for future violence to and in order to protect the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark R. Hackbarth.

Phase II data recovery investigations were completed according to the specifications of the Treatment Plan previously approved by ASM and COP and infield discussions with COP and the State Historic Preservation Office conducted on March 23 and 27, 2012, and summarized in an email sent to ASM on March 27, 2012. LSD completed mechanical stripping around the features identified during Phase I testing and during Phase II mechanical stripping. Features exposed during the stripping were hand excavated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Fangmeier.

The City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department (STD) is conducting road and storm drain improvements. The project will require the relocation of an existing Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation line, located on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation land. Because federal lands are involved, the project is considered a federal undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. It also follows applicable COP policies and requirements as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Aguila Lourdes. Holly DeMaagd. Vicki Erhart. Gina S. Gage. Margaret Glass. Sharon Hurlbut. Karolyn Jackman. Bruce G. Phillips.

In June 1999, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) surveyed approximately 234 acres of private land for the proposed El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG) 2039 pipeline relocation/removal project. AZ T:12:116(ASM}—a previously recorded Hohokam site also known as Pueblo del Rio—was located within the proposed area of impact. ACS concluded that as the site’s integrity and ability to contribute important information about the area’s prehistory were unknown; testing was necessary to evaluate...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cassandra Albush. A. E. (Gene) Rogge.

The Solid Waste Disposal Management Division of the City of Phoenix Public Works Department (City) has constructed Phases 1 and 2 of the State Route (SR) landfill and will construct additional disposal cells in the future. Development of the landfill necessitates construction of channels and basins around the landfill perimeter to control stormwater flows, and a preliminary drainage report identified concepts for perimeter and interim stormwater controls. A survey conducted for the project...

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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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Boston.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Wood. Denise Ryan. M. Sullivan.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Rising Sun Site that is located on Tonto National Forest land. The site consists of stone room blocks with minimal lithic and sherd scatter. One document notes a petroglyph. The file consists of two site data forms and two cultural resources preliminary inventory forms. The oldest documents in the file date to 1993.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shelly Rasmussen. Frank M..

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Robbins Butte, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of rock structures and walls, terracing, bedrock mortars, artifact scatter, petroglyphs, a groundstone manufacturing site, and trails. The file consists of two site data forms and a map of the site location. The earliest dated document is from 1929.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Crash Marusich.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Rock Knob Bedrock Mortar sites, comprised of bedrock mortars, located on McDowell Mountain Regional Park land. The file consists of a site data form.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Wright.

In May 2004, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS) conducted a phased data recovery program in part of a large prehistoric Native American village called Pueblo Viejo in southern Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. The site is also known as AZ T:12:73 (ASM) in the Arizona State Museum's site numbering system; the site’s name and number are used interchangeably in this report. The City of Phoenix Archaeology Office has assigned the following project number to the work performed at Pueblo...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott W. Solliday. Shelly C. Dudley.

The establishment of the Salt River Federal Reclamation Project in 1903 led to the construction of a modern irrigation system to serve the productive farmlands of the Salt River Valley. However, lands outside of the project boundaries, which generally had no legal claim to surface water, had to rely on alternative sources of water. The Roosevelt Water Conservation District was one of the earliest successful efforts to increase the available water supply. By applying simple but innovative...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cameron S. Griffith.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), was contracted by Salt River Project (SRP) to perform a Class III cultural resources survey for proposed SRP receiving station site RS # 3, associated transmission line (230 kV and 65 kV) right-of-way corridors, and alternatives. The survey was conducted from 30 October to 3 November 1995. The work involved 11 person days of labor. No significant archaeological resources were encountered.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Connie L. Stone. M. A. Wetherill. R. C. Euler.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Running Deer Village site, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of a masonry pueblo, platforms, bedrock metates, petroglyphs, and artifact scatter. The file consists of a site data form, map of the site location, two Museum of Northern Arizona forms, and 20 black and white photographs of the site and its features. The earliest dated document is from 1957.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deni J. Seymour.

Between March 11 and 21, 1991, SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants conducted a cultural resources survey of approximately 2,300 acres of Pima -Maricopa Indian Community Lands in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was conducted in order to locate and describe cultural remains within the project area that might be adversely affected by proposed development of the area in conjunction with the Central Arizona Project, Water Distribution Facilities. A total of 20 sites (AZ U:5:41 through AZ...

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Effland.

Salt River Project (SRP) proposes to construct a 230 kV transmission line to connect the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. Archaeological Consulting Services (ACS) was contracted to perform an assessment of impacts to cultural resources that would be caused by the project. ACS is responsible for assessing potential impacts to historical and archaeological sites as well as architectural resources in the vicinity of the new right-of -way. One hundred percent survey of the...

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 Desert Archaeology Inc..

This proposal is Desert Archaeology's response to Salt River Project’s request for archaeological testing at the Kyrene Generating Station in Tempe, Arizona. This proposal presents an efficient program to determine if significant cultural resources are present within the project area. The program is designed to address the needs of Salt River Project for phased investigations within a specified time frame and in a cost-effective manner. Our work combines high professional standards with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Schilling.

The Bureau of Reclamation has developed an archaeological site database for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) canal main stem based on the Class III survey data that includes all previously recorded sites. An unknown number of these sites were either destroyed by construction or excavation, while others are no longer located within the CAP right-of-way (ROW). To assist Reclamation in checking the accuracy of its site database, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) was asked to revisit a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cheryl Blanchard.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for the Sand Tank Mine, located on Bureau of Land Management land. The site is comprised of historic artifact scatter and mine tailings. The file consists of a site data form. The earliest dated document is from 2007.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R. Martynec.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for a site found during the Santa Rosa Canal B project. The site is located on State Trust land, and is comprised of approximately 15 petroglyphs which may be Hohokam in origin. The file consists of an Arizona State Museum archaeological survey card. The earliest dated document is from 1986.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dell Albeas. Mark Ziem.

This is an Arizona Site Steward file for Sara's Rock Petroglyph Site, comprised of petroglyphs and lithic scatter, located on Tonto National Forest land. The file consists of a heritage inventory form, sketches of select petroglyphs, six black and white photographs, and a map of the site location. The earliest dated documents are from 2003.