Las Vegas, Nevada (Geographic Keyword)
576-600 (605 Records)
Thirteen former Weapon Storage Areas (WSAs) were built between 1948 and 1956 for the storage, maintenance, and operational read iness of the nuclear weapon stockpile. The former WSAs were operated under joint Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and Department of Defense agreements. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) had technical responsibility for the AEC weapons and their nuclear components. AEC and SNL personnel left the WSAs in 1960 and the WSAs were transferred to their host base by 1966. These...
Some 1966 Conclusions (1966)
Conclusions about Cuprote Sulfur.
Sources Used to Determine Which Native American Groups Have Ancestral Ties to the Nellis Air Force Range (2020)
The following document was written by ethnographers to initially determine the authenticity of groups in the region who has ancestral ties to the southern Great Basin. These people were hunter-gatherers who moved over 1000 or more square miles of territory.
A Stratified Archaeological Sample of Low Elevation Areas On Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada (2000)
The Nellis AFR Low Elevation Stratified Sample inventory was conducted in low areas of the range where most mission-related activities occur. This study, which was performed in accordance with Section 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act, had the following goals: 1) characterize the prehistoric cultural resources of low elevation areas on the range; and 2) use this information to construct a model for identifying areas of low to high potential for cultural remains. Data from this study...
The Structure of a Temporary Camp at Drill Hole U19AQ of Pahute Mesa, Nye County, Nevada REVIEW DRAFT (1989)
Data recovery studies were initiated at Drill Hole Ul9aq to retrieve cultural resources information concerning the settlement and subsistence systems followed by the aboriginal hunter and gatherers in the area. Studies included the excavation of 28 separate units, ranging in size from less than one square meter to 32 square meters, and the collection and mapping of surface remains over a 84.8 hectare area.
Subproject for Airfield Construction at Las Vegas Flying School No. 10 (1941)
Documentation regarding the construction of the Las Vegas Flying School No. 10.
Supplemental Report to the Class III Cultural Resources Survey in Support of a Proposed Fiber Optic Line from the Tolicha Peak Compound to Black Mountain, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nye County, Nevada (2011)
In 2010, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) proposed to install a 10.6 mile (17.1 km) long fiber optic line between the Tolicha Peak Compound and the top of Black Mountain, on the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Nye County, Nevada. The proposed route of the fiber optic line coincides with corridors of existing utility lines and other disturbance, as much as possible, to minimize potential effects to the overall environment and to known historic properties. Only a short portion (600 m; 1,968 ft) of...
Surface Geology, Paleoenvironment, and Paleoclimate of Stonewall Mountain, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2014)
Field studies for geomorphology, paleoenvironment, paleohydrology, plant ecology, and isotope geology were conducted at Stonewall Mountain and Stonewall Flat during the spring and summer of 2010 in support of Nellis AFB archaeological and ethnographic studies of the Stonewall Mountain region. These studies revealed natural resources for water, shelter, lithic tools, sulfur, and certain earth pigments exist at Stonewall Mountain and the Goldfield Hills. The playa in Stonewall Flat hosted a robust...
Survey and Evaulation of 121 Buldings at Nellis Air Force Base, Clark County, Nevada (2014)
This historic resources report includes a total of 121 buildings identified by Kish LaPierre, Cultural Resources Program Manager for Nellis AFB, that require survey and evaluation for potential NRHP eligibility because work anticipated for the energy conservation program at the installation may result in impacts that adversely affect these cultural resources.
Survey and Evaulation Report Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada (2011)
A historic context for the evaluation of NRHP eligibility of buildings at NAS Fallon and to survey, document, and evaluate all buildings and structures on NAS Fallon Main Station constructed prior to 1990 for NRHP eligibility with the exception of certain types of infrastructure. The project also was to evaluate whether one or more historic districts eligible for the NRHP exist at NAS Fallon. Nellis AFB is mentioned throughout this document.
Survey of Alternate Segment of Nissan 400 OHV Race Near Apex, Nevada NV-91-01 (1991)
Survey of Alternate Segment of Nissan 400 OHV Race Near Apex, Nevada NV-91-01.
A Synthesis of Archaeological Inventories at the Area 10 Operations Center, Tonopah Test Range, NTTR, Nevada: Cultural Resources Report 06-02 (2006)
In 1983, approximately 4,000 acres in the northwest corner of the Nevada Test and Training Range were segregated to construct a runway, headquarters building, office, and support structures including as a cafeteria to test fly the F-117 Stealth aircraft, a classified mission. The results of the surveys for 4,010 were submitted to the proponents but the project and supporting documentation were classified and not disseminated outside these Departments. The facilities were constructed. Nineteen...
A Synthesis of Archaeological Inventories in the Mancamp Zone Nevada Test & Training Range, Nevada (2009)
Inventory reports for construction of support facilities for lodging for 5,000 Stealth mission-related project workers and for associated rights-of-way between the habitation compound, called Mancamp, and the Area 10 Operations Center, a total of 375 acres, surveyed from 1983 to 1988, were authorized for release in 2009. The Area of Potential Effect is referenced as the Mancamp Zone. Seventeen sites, all lithic scatters, were recorded. No diagnostics were found. Tcwelve were small sites not...
Talking Paper on Las Vegas Army Air Field/Nellis Air Force Base: 1941-1950 (2005)
Talking Paper on Las Vegas Army Air Field/Nellis Air Force Base: 1941-1950.
Thirsty Canyon, Nevada Test and Training Range, and The Shoshones of Oasis Valley (2005)
The Shoshone families who wintered in Oasis Valley spent most of the year traveling around in search of plants and animals that they used for food, medicine, and other subsistence purposes. This study focuses on one area that was used for these purposes, Thirsty Canyon, and the Shoshone people who used the area until its closure to the public in the 1940s.
Tingley's Mining Map (1998)
Map of Tingley's Mining sites.
Tonopah Test Range Outpost of Sandia National Laboratories (1996)
Tonopah Test Range was established in 1957 by Sandia Corporation and it provided an isolated place for the Atomic Energy Commission to test ballistics and non-nuclear features of atomic weapons. This report is a brief review of historical highlights at Tonopah Test Range. This brief review of historical highlights at Tonopah Test Range solicits corrections and additional memoirs from Sandians serving the range from 1957 to the present. The Los Lunas, Salton Sea, Kauai, and Edgewood testing...
Tribal Letter: Introduction of the Proposed Beddown of a Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS) Environmental Assessment and Section 106 Consultation Invitation for Nellis Air Force Base (2016)
Tribal Letter: Introduction of the Proposed Beddown of a Tactical Air Support Squadron (TASS) Environmental Assessment and Section 106 Consultation Invitation for Nellis Air Force Base.
Tribal Letter: Press Conference Planning (2003)
Correspondence regarding a task force on unauthorized collection of artifacts.
U-Nav-Kai-Vi Duepeth Toyave: Volume Two Black Mountain-Thirsty Canyon Traditional Uses of a Volcanic Landscape (2008)
The research presented in this document builds upon the ethnohistoric, ethnographic, ethnobotanical and ethnozoological information that was discussed in the first Black Mountain study. The lands of the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) were traditionally occupied and used by the Numic people.
U.S. Air Force 2016 Nevada State Museum Curation Report Nellis, Creech, and NTTR (2016)
Nellis AFB has approximately 1,172 artifacts from 278 archaeological sites that are within the boundaries of Nevada Test and Training Range/NAFB. These artifacts were collected over the last 30 to 40 years. These items are housed at the Nevada State Museum repository in Carson City, Nevada.
U.S. Air Force, 2016 Nevada State Museum Curation Report Nellis, Creech, and NTTR and NAGPRA Reports (2016)
On November 17 and 18, 2016 Garth Hayden from Ecosystem Management, Inc. (EMI) met with Nellis Cultural Resources Manager (CRM) Kish LaPierre to assist in the curation of artifacts at the Nevada State Museum curation facility in Carson City, NV. The artifacts that were curated were designated for Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) repatriation (see attached 2003 and 2004 NAGPRA reports). Mr. Hayden also assisted the CRM in confirming and correcting catalogue entries for...
USAF 1, Fire# Y001: RAF Harrier Jet Crash Site, Fire, and Road Construction (1999)
This report presents the results of a Class III inventory of 26.5 acres of public land in Lincoln County for Royal Air Force (RAF) crashed Harrier jet, subsequent burned area, and proposed access road. The proposed project area is located approximately 6 miles northwest of Rachel, Nevada. No cultural resources were located during this inventory.
USDI/BLM Cultural Resources Report Format/Field Worksheet 5-1962 (P) (1989)
The project is a proposed Nevada Bell fiber optic cable burial route, 51.2 miles in length by 25 feet in width. The route extends between Centel-owned underground facilities located at the corner of Ann Road and U.S. Highway 95 on the southeast, to just northeast of the junction of Mercury Road and US Highway 95 on the northwest, where the new service will enter the Nevada Test Site. In addition, a short stretch of line on BLM administered lands will reach from Nevada Bell's Specter Mountain...
Volume I: Report Cultural Resources Inventory of 1,730 Acres in the Proposed Alt 3A and Alt 3B Expansion Areas, Nevada Test and Training Range Land Withdrawal (2018)
This report details Far Western’s findings, including the results of 1,730 acres of archaeological inventory conducted in 28 randomly selected sample survey units. A total of 56 new archaeological sites were recorded, and two previously recorded sites were updated. The survey also recorded 87 isolated artifacts or features.