Mesa, AZ (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oslynn Benjamin.

An archaeological survey of the exposed ground surface that will be potentially impacted by the planned demolition of the existing structures of the Verde Water Treatment Plant (VWTP) to allow the landscape to revert to its natural condition. The Class III survey does not include existing buildings, which are being examined in a separate investigation. A Class III archaeological survey conducted of the exposed ground surface within the area of potential effects (APE) found no significant...

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Crismon Ruin is a large Hohokam settlement located on the lower terraces of the Salt River, near the head of the prehistoric Lehi Canal System. Data recovery excavations at the site were conducted in the spring and early summer of 2001. Over 500 archaeological features were documented during the fieldwork, including prehistoric pithouses, adobe rooms, borrow pits, pits, homos, roasting pits, inhumation and cremation burials, canals, and other miscellaneous features. Most of these features...

DOCUMENT Full-Text RECON-Regional Environmental Consultants.

On September 21, 1988, Regional Environmental Consultants (RECON) conducted an archaeological survey of a proposed Salt River Project substation site. Prior to the field survey, an archaeological background file search was conducted at the State Archives in Phoenix. No archaeological sites were recorded for the substation location, although a number of sites exist in the surrounding area. This report describes the results of the survey.

DOCUMENT Full-Text M. Zyniecki. Thomas N. Motsinger. David H. Greenwald.

An archaeological survey of a portion of the Salt River Indian Reservation was completed for the Salt River Project (SRP) by SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, during July and August, 1990. Work was performed under special use permit Number 440 issued by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Phoenix District, and a letter of authorization from the Salt River Indian Community. The project was undertaken for a proposed ground water recharge system located north of Mesa, Arizona, along the north side...

DOCUMENT Full-Text RECON-Regional Environmental Consultants.

On February 9, 1989, Regional Environmental Consultants (RECON) conducted an archaeological survey on the proposed McCoy Substation site in Mesa, Arizona. Prior to the survey, an archaeological background files search was conducted at the State Historic Preservation Office, Arizona State Parks and Recreation Department, Phoenix, Arizona. No sites were recorded within the study area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Cable. Frank Ritz.

On December 14, 1987, Regional Environmental Consultants (RECON) conducted archaeological surveys of two proposed Salt River Project substation sites, the Seaton/Farnsworth and Spurlock Substations. The Seaton/Farnsworth site is located along Southern Avenue just west of Signal Butte Road in Mesa, Arizona, and the Spurlock site is situated in an undeveloped area about 0.25 mile north and east of U.S. Highway 89, approximately 6.5 miles east-southeast of Apache Junction, Arizona. This report...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cara Lonardo.

The City of Mesa, in conjunction with ADOT and FHWA, is preparing an Environmental Determination Report for the improvement of the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) infrastructure. The project will be located within the City of Mesa's right-of-way (ROW) along Broadway Road. Because the project is federally funded, ITS Engineers and Constructors, Inc. on behalf of the City of Mesa, requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) perform a cultural resources evaluation of the project area and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel R. Bontrager. Lyle M. Stone.

In late August, 1988, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. performed a cultural resources survey of an approximately 4700 ft long by 67 ft wide (7.23 acres) corridor of highway easement along the northwest side of State Route 87 (between Center Street and Mesa Drive) for the Arizona Department of Transportation. This study area is located north of Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona on lands of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Six prehistoric archaeological sites were observed and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry B. Howard.

On March 24, 1988 a cultural resources survey was completed by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) for the City of Mesa, Department of Parks and Recreation and Department of Engineering, within Park of the Canals, a National Register Property administered by the City of Mesa. The four areas examined within the park have been proposed as possible sites for the construction of a Desert Botanical Garden. This report is organized into six sections. Section one presents the background of Park of the Canals...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Northland Research, Inc..

Northland Research, Inc. was contracted by the Salt River Project to perform a Class III cultural resource clearance for proposed impacts associated with the exchange of canal rights-of-way. Examined for this purpose were two transects that covered an area of 2.02 acres.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

On July 6, 1987, Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services, Inc, (ARS) performed a cultural resources survey of an 7.974 acre parcel of land in Mesa, Arizona. This survey was requested by the Engineering Department, City of Mesa, in order to determine if important cultural resources (which may include prehistoric or historic archaeological sites or objects, architecturally or historically significant structures or buildings) were present which could be adversely affected by the proposed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lourdes Aguila.

Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) conducted a Class III (Intensive), non-collection cultural resources survey on approximately 170 miles of the Arizona, Arizona Crosscut, Grand, Tempe, Tempe Crosscut, Consolidated, Eastern, South, Western, Highline, and Kyrene Branch Canals in Maricopa County, Arizona. The survey was undertaken at the request of Jon S. Czaplicki, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) archaeologist and Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for Contract...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson. Mary-Ellen Walsh-Anduze. Tiffany C. Clark.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) plans to extend the Red Mountain Freeway/SR 202L from SR 87 to US 60, resulting in the construction of nearly 18 miles of new freeway. Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS), completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the proposed project area, which resulted in the identification and recording of numerous prehistoric and historic sites within the Red Mountain Freeway (RMF) corridor (Macnider et al. 1999) . Crismon Pueblo and the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text T. Kathleen Henderson.

Salt River Project (SRP) plans to construct a new 230 kV transmission line between the Browning and Dinosaur substations east of Mesa and Queen Creek, Arizona. A cultural resources survey has determined that portions of three archaeological sites that meet criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places are present within the transmission line corridor (Henderson 2005). Desert Archaeology, Inc., has prepared this plan at the request of SRP to conduct phased data recovery...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fred Andersen.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-16 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Tempe Canal, which provides irrigation waters to the Southeast valley cities of Tempe, Mesa, and Chandler, Arizona. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The oldest canal in continuous use in the Salt River Valley, the Tempe Canal is the site of early hydropower projects and the last...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fred Andersen.

Together, Historic American Engineering Records (HAER) Nos. AZ-22 and AZ-23 present a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Western Canal and the Highline Canal, which are waterways that serve Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, and parts of south Phoenix, Arizona on the south side of the Salt River. This report, Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-22, presents a narrative history of both canals and their infrastructure features....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Tonia Woods Horton.

Located approximately thirty miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, adjacent to the city of Mesa, and three miles downstream from the confluence of the Salt and Verde Rivers, Granite Reef Diversion Dam is the principal diversion structure supplying water to the Salt River Project irrigation canals on either side of the Salt River. Although overshadowed in size by the Theodore Roosevelt Dam - the first structure of the Salt River Project proposed by the Department of the Interior's newly formed U.S....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shelly C. Dudley.

The U.S. Reclamation Service constructed the South Canal to carry water to the farmers on the south side of the Salt River as part of the Salt River Federal Reclamation Project. Built between 1907 and 1909, the original canal measured only two miles and diverted water from the newly erected Granite Reef Dam. The South Canal eventually became the only irrigation structure to divert water directly from the Salt River and deliver it to the south side shareholders of the Salt River Valley Water...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gerald A. Doyle. Karolyn J. Jackman.

Recordation of the historic Crismon Farmstead was prompted by the impending extension of the Red Mountain Freeway. Because part of the old farm has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, the freeway will not physically encroach on the house and associated outbuildings. Nevertheless, the Arizona Department of Transportation sponsored the preparation of this State Historic Register documentation of the property so that its place in the history of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone. James E. Ayres.

Flooding along the Salt, Gila, Verde, and Agua Fria Rivers in February and March of 1978 resulted in extensive damage to property in Central Arizona and in the disruption of ground transportation and commerce in the greater Phoenix area. Major flooding also occurred along these rivers in December, 1978 and February, 1980. The recognition of this flooding problem, and of requirements for the regulatory storage of Central Arizona Project (CAP) water, prompted the U.S. Department of the Interior,...

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Archaeological testing and data recovery were conducted along a segment of the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) corridor between the Price Freeway and McKellips Road, including a realigned segment of Dobson Road in Mesa, Arizona. Conducted under contract to Stanley Consultants, Inc., for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), the work was done in four phases (testing and data recovery for each of two segments) between October 1994 and April 1996. One site (AZ U:9:6 [ARS]) was found to...

PROJECT AZTEC Engineering. Margaret Glass. Stephen W. Yost.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is in the process of extending the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Highway 60 (US 60, Superstition Freeway). The undertaking entails the construction of 17.8 mi (28.6 km) of new limited-access six-lane freeway parallel to and south of the Salt River. Under contract to Entranco Engineering, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.(ACS) performed initial survey of the proposed alternatives...

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The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is in the process of extending the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Highway 60 (US 60, Superstition Freeway). The undertaking entails the construction of 17.8 mi (28.6 km) of new limited-access six-lane freeway parallel to and south of the Salt River. Under contract to Entranco Engineering, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.(ACS) performed initial survey of the proposed alternatives...

DATASET Karolyn J. Jackman.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is in the process of extending the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Highway 60 (US 60, Superstition Freeway). The undertaking entails the construction of 17.8 mi (28.6 km) of new limited access six-lane freeway parallel to and south of the Salt River. Under contract to Entranco Engineering, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.(ACS) performed initial survey of the proposed alternatives...

DATASET Deborah L. Ferguson. Lourdes Aguila.

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is in the process of extending the Red Mountain Freeway (Loop 202) through Mesa, Arizona from State Route (SR) 87 to US Highway 60 (US 60, Superstition Freeway). The undertaking entails the construction of 17.8 mi (28.6 km) of new limited access six-lane freeway parallel to and south of the Salt River. Under contract to Entranco Engineering, Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd.(ACS) performed initial survey of the proposed alternatives...