Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park Reports and Documentation
Part of: Arizona State Parks Reports and Documentation
This collection contains reports pertinent to Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park. Document types may include site stabilization reports, site evaluation or survey reports, expert consultations, ground disturbance monitoring, excavation reports, architectural documentation or survey, heritage management plans and evaluations, historic background research, and inventory and records searches.
Site Type Keywords
Non-Domestic Structures •
Quartermaster Depot •
Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features •
Agricultural or Herding •
Military Structure •
Ball Court •
Historic Structure •
Archaeological Feature •
Adobe Wall •
Canal or Canal Feature
Other Keywords
U. S. Army •
Yuma Quartermaster Depot •
Clothing •
Shoe •
Yuma Depot •
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historical Park •
Car Part •
Yuma Valley Railroad •
Francis L. Sellew •
United States Reclamation Service
Culture Keywords
Historic
Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing •
Architectural Documentation •
Archaeological Overview •
Reconnaissance / Survey •
Historic Background Research
Material Types
Building Materials •
Adobe •
Mortar •
Concrete •
Ceramic •
Glass •
Metal •
Wood •
Textile •
Plastic
Temporal Keywords
Historic •
20th Century •
1920s •
1870s •
1950s •
1940s •
1860s •
1930s •
19th Century •
1880s
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Yuma County (County) •
North America (Continent) •
Yuma, AZ •
Imperial County (County) •
California (State / Territory) •
Yuma (County) •
Colorado River •
Colorado River Floodplain
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An Archaeological Evaluation of Architectural Detail at the Yuma Quatermaster Depot Officer's Quarters and Kitchen Buildings, Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, Yuma, Arizona (1989)
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On May 26, 1989, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. completed archaeological test excavations at the existing Officer's Quarters and Kitchen buildings at the Yuma Quartermaster Depot, Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park, in Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona. These investigations for Gerald A. Doyle and Associates exposed the east wall, granite masonry foundations for each of the historic buildings. Test data will be applied to planning the restoration of the two buildings.
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Archaeological Test Excavations at the Quartermaster Building, Yuma Depot, Yuma Territorial Prison State Park, Yuma, Arizona (1980)
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On October 2, 1980, Lyle M. Stone of Archaeological Research Services performed limited test excavations at the existing quartermaster building of the 1864-1885 Yuma Depot, now a part of Yuma Territorial Prison State Park, Yuma, Arizona. This project was authorized by Gerald A. Doyle and Associates, A.l.A. and was performed under the conditions of an Arizona antiquities permit (No. 80-13) issued by the Arizona State Museum to Archaeological Research Services on August 13, 1980. Doyle and...
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Class III Cultural Resource Survey for the Yuma West Wetlands Mitigation Project Yuma County, Arizona (1999)
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The Yuma West Wetlands Mitigation Project (YWWMP) is part of the Yuma Riverfront Task Force, which was established in the mid-1990's to develop projects to reclaim the river front. This is one of several projects planned along the river front. Reclamation has entered into a grant agreement with the City of Yuma (Yuma) for construction of the YWWMP. The current project consists of an upper terrace (approximately 80 acres) and a lower terrace (approximately 40 acres). The upper terrace is located...
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A Record of a Portion of the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad (2009)
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The Yuma Irrigation Project (YIP) was an early and essential Reclamation project in the Southwest, and the Yuma/California Main Canal and the Yuma Valley Railroad were important contributors to the success of the YIP and the early development of Yuma, Arizona. Construction on the YIP began shortly after a new federal agency - United States Reclamation Service - had been given authority to reclaim arid and semi-arid lands in the West in 1902. In only a couple of decades, the YIP infrastructure...
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Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites National Historic Landmark: An Archaeological Perspective (1983)
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This is a partial document containing only the portion of the full report relating to the water facility. A water facility, including a water storage tank and a pumphouse had been constructed at the Quartermaster Depot by 1869. The water tank, a stone masonry building approximately 34 ft east-west by 22 ft north- south in size, exists at present and is owned by the State of Arizona. The pumphouse or enginehouse, located to the north of the tank just above the Colorado River, was present in...