Salt River Project Digital Library

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frederic J. Athearn.

This volume represents a bridge between Colorado’s pre-historic past and the time of Anglo-American settlement in the state of Colorado. Few people realize that hundreds of years before the discovery of gold in Colorado during 1859, a highly developed civilization had explored and settled the area now known as New Mexico and Colorado. Spanish conquistadores roamed the plains in the mid-1500s. They came here permanently in 1598 and founded the second oldest city in North America. This long...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Earl W. Sires.

The Fourmile Wash Data Recovery Project (SWCA Project No. 22-88160-1) included excavation and other data recovery activities at eight archaeological sites located in northwestern Maricopa County, Arizona. The excavations were conducted between 18 April and 5 May 1988 by SWCA, Inc., under contract with Headquarters West, Ltd. The project was necessitated by the fact that these sites are located on lands administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that were scheduled to be transferred...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Henry F. Dobyns.

This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each...

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The Garden of America: Irrigation of Arizona. This promotional pamphlet advertised the potential and beauty of the Salt River Valley in Arizona. It also describes its surroundings, irrigation systems, and canals, and agricultural possibilities with letters from residents. Contains illustrations of the upper wasteway and the falls of the Arizona Canal, natural bridge over Pine Creek, 1885 canal map, and many others.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Budz.

This document contains a general management plan/development concept plan (GMP/DCP) for the recently enlarged Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The GMP/DCP revises and updates a GMP approved in 1979, and many of the concepts in the earlier plan have been carried forward. The current GMP provides a general strategy for managing lands within the expanded boundary. It includes an analysis of critical resource values and an overall management zoning concept. Land protection proposals are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael R. Waters.

Geoarchaeological investigations of the alluvial piedmont or bajada emanating from the Tortolita Mountains, Arizona, show that the distribution of Hohokam sites apparent from the surface is complete and undisturbed by geological processes. Late Holocene geomorphic processes and their resultant deposits on the bajada affected the location of prehistoric Hohokam agricultural settlements. Hohokam settlements were commonly situated on small alluvial fans dominated by sheetwash processes and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John C. Ravesloot. Michael R. Waters.

Archaeologists reconstruct settlement patterns from the spatial distribution of archaeological sites, features, and ar­tifacts that are found as part of a modern physical landscape. This physical landscape is made up of active and inactive landforms. In order to accurately interpret archae­ological survey data, it is important to understand the types and origins of the landforms on which these cultural re­mains occur (Barton et al. 1999, 2002; Butzer 1982; Bet­tis and Mandel 2002; Waters and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric S. Cox.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological monitoring for the Grand Canal Radial Gate MCC 2-6.3 Improvement Project that took place on lands administered by the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR). The project's Area of Potential Effect (APE) is situated within the mapped boundaries of Pueblo Grande (AZ U:9:1[ASM]), a previously recorded prehistoric Hohokam village that is listed in the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (A/NRHP). The APE consists of the utility...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Helen C. Fairley. Peter W. Bungart. Christopher M. Coder. Jim Huffman. Terry L. Samples. Janet R. Balsom.

Between August 30,1990 and May 10,1991, an archaeological inventory was completed along a 255-mile-long segment of the Colorado River corridor from the base of Glen Canyon Dam to Separation Canyon. This survey was undertaken by the National Park Service (NPS) in Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (GLCA) to provide baseline cultural resource information to the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) for inclusion in the Glen Canyon Dam Environmental Impact Statement...

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This volume and the two that follow document the results of the Grewe Archaeological Research Project (GARP). The project was carried out by Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Portions of three prehistoric sites were investigated by the project - Grewe, Horvath, and Casa Grande Ruins. Each of the sites represents a separate spatial and temporal component of the Grewe-Case Grande settlement, one of the preeminent Hohokam...

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This is the second in a series of three volumes documenting the results of the Grewe Archaeological Research Project (GARP). The Project was carried out by Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Portions of three prehistoric sites were investigated on the project - Grewe, Horvath, and Casa Grande Ruins. Each of the sites represents a separate spatial and temporal component of the Grewe-Casa Grande settlement, one of the preeminent...

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This is the second in a series of three volumes documenting the results of the Grewe Archaeological Research Project (GARP). The Project was carried out by Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Portions of three prehistoric sites were investigated on the project - Grewe, Horvath, and Casa Grande Ruins. Each of the sites represents a separate spatial and temporal component of the Grewe-Casa Grande settlement, one of the preeminent...

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This is the third and final volume documenting the results of the Grewe Archaeological Research Project (GARP). The Project was carried out by Northland Research, Inc. (Northland), under contract to the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT). Portions of three prehistoric sites were investigated on the project - Grewe, Horvath, and Casa Grande Ruins. Each of the sites represents a separate spatial and temporal component of the Grewe-Casa Grande settlement, one of the preeminent Hohokam...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce B. Huckell.

Results of an archaeological and ethnological study of a very large ground stone tool quarry on the lower Colorado River near Bullhead City, Arizona, are presented. The general size and content of the quarry area as understood from survey is described, and the nature of the andesite being selected for tool manufacture is presented. The results of archaeological investigation of 10 discrete production loci is reported, and the kinds of artifacts from them are described. These include broken or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson.

This report provides a written narrative of the events leading to the construction of Stewart Mountain Dam on the Salt River, in Central Arizona. Stewart Mountain Dam was constructed by the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association between 1928 and 1930. The dam provides for water storage and hydroelectric power generation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

This Historic American Engineering Record for the Mormon Flat Dam contains photographs, dating from 1924-1988, and descriptive data concerning the dam's construction and use. Mormon Flat Dam was the first dam constructed under the Salt River Project's 1920's hydroelectric expansion program. Currently, the dam is operated by the Salt River Project for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power and for storing approximately 57,000 acre feet of water for agricultural and urban uses.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

This Historic American Engineering Record includes photographs of the Horse Mesa Dam, dating from 1924-1988, and accompanying written historical and descriptive data. The Horse Mesa Dam is operated by the Salt River Project for the purposes of generating hydroelectric power and for storing approximately 245,000 acre feet of water for agricultural and urban uses. Horse Mesa Dam was the second dam constructed under the Salt River Project's 1920's hydroelectric expansion program.

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. Carol Noland.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-17 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of Grand Canal, which delivers water to users on the north side of the Salt River for agricultural, industrial, and municipal uses. Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-30 provides similar documentation about the construction and operation of the Crosscut Hydroelectric Plant, which sits at the head of Grand Canal and relies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shelley C. Dudley.

The Arizona Canal is the northernmost canal in the water distribution system of the Salt River Project, located within the urban center of Phoenix in Central Arizona. The Salt River Valley, at the time of the canal's construction in 1883, already had canals on both the north and south side of the Salt River irrigating portions of the Valley. Yet the men who organized the Arizona Canal Company saw the scorched, desolate desert in the northern part of the Valley and envisioned thousands of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Behan.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-20 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Crosscut Steam Plant, which provided the first non-hydroelectric power to Salt River Project customers in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The Crosscut Steam Plant facility is located in Tempe, AZ, near Mill Avenue and Washington Street on the north...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Fred Andersen.

Historic American Engineering Record for the Old Crosscut Canal, which includes photographs and descriptive data concerning the construction and use of the canal. The Old Crosscut Canal was originally built to connect to Arizona Canal with the other northside canals. It served this function to some degree until 1913, when it was replaced by the New Crosscut some two miles east. The Old Crosscut remained, but has not been used for irrigation since. Beginning in the 1920s it was used to help...

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 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. HAER No. AZ-22 (see https://core.tdar.org/document/393529) presents a narrative history of both canals and their infrastructure features. It also...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson. Clayton B. Fraser.

This report provides a written narrative of the events leading to the construction of Horseshoe Dam on the Verde River, in Central Arizona. Horseshoe Dam was constructed between 1944 and 1946 by the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association and the Phelps Dodge Copper Company. The dam provides water storage for irrigation and domestic use.

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-25 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of Bartlett Dam, which impounds the Verde River 50 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona to create Bartlett Reservoir. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The Bartlett Dam is a major component of the Salt River Project's water supply system that provides Verde River water for agricultural,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-4 presents a written historical summary and relevant historical documentation about the construction and use of the Roosevelt Power Canal and Diversion Dam in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Lake in south-central Arizona. The report contains a narrative description, photographs, drawings, and maps. The Roosevelt Power Canal was built as an integral part of the Salt River Project and represents the U.S. Reclamation Service's first involvement...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Pfaff.

The San Carlos Irrigation Project (SCIP) is significant for creating an integrated irrigation system to serve both Indian and non-Indian lands along the Gila River. Prior to project construction, irrigation of area lands was piecemeal and non-Indian agricultural development above the Gila River Indian Reservation had depleted water supplies for the Indians. Initial authorization of the project in 1916 and the passage of the San Carlos Act on June 7, 1924 culminated years of studies and efforts...

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 Marc C. Campbell.

The Eastern Canal—so-called because of its geographic location—sits at the eastern edge of the Salt River Project (SRP) in central Arizona. Originating near Lindsay and McDowell roads in northeast Mesa, the Eastern today stretches 14.65 miles south from its head in the South Canal. Built between March and December 1909, the canal provides irrigation water for lands lying between it and the Consolidated Canal to the west, and it also serves as a vital source of domestic water for the Town of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Leah S. Glaser.

The Eastern Mining Area transmission line was first built to carry hydroelectric power generated at Roosevelt Dam, the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s first large scale work, into Phoenix. It soon expanded to serve the area mines the southern portion of Gila County. The sale of power to these mines provided revenue to expand the Salt River Project’s hydroelectric system and furnish Salt River Valley farmers with electricity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Pfaff.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-6A examines the origins, construction, use, and significance of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam Power Plant and Transformer House, located in south-central Arizona along the Salt River. The report contains a narrative description, drawings, maps, and historic photographs of the dam's power plant and transformer house. The power generating facilities at Roosevelt Dam, beginning with the 1906 temporary plant, were the first ever built by the Bureau...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Introcaso.

Coolidge Dam was authorized in 1924 and was completed in 1928. It was built by the U.S. Indian Service. Today Coolidge Dam supplies water from the Gila River to the Gila River Indian Community and to non-Indian growers as well. This report satisfies Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) standards as established by the National Park Service. A copy of this report, along with a complete set of archival negatives and photographs, has been deposited in the HAER collection at the Library of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jay C. Ziemann.

The San Francisco Canal was one of the first few operating irrigation ditches in the Salt River Valley. It was the only privately owned canal south of the Salt and after 1901, it was the principal water source for the seven thousand acre Bartlett-Heard Land and Cattle Company. The canal continues to serve residential Tempe. The San Francisco Canal originally had its head constructed on the south side of the Salt River approximately 1 mile below the milling town of Tempe, Arizona. The canal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert C. Goodyear, III. Alfred E. Dittert, Jr..

Late in 1971, the Department of Anthropology at Arizona State University was contacted by the Hecla Mining Company regarding impending construction of plant facilities at the Lakeshore Mine Project. The latter operation is located 28 miles southwest of Casa Grande, Arizona. The existence of many archaeological remains within the construction zone was known as a result of surveys conducted by Mr. Garland Gordon of the Arizona Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Tuscon. Investigations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert C. Goodyear, III.

This report summarizes archaeological investigations undertaken on the Hecla Mine situated on the south facing slopes of the Slate Mountains, Papago Indian Reservation, north-central Arizona. Three seasons of fieldwork were performed based upon separate contract agreements designed to give mitigation phase clearance to impacted archaeological resources. A variety of methods are developed treating sampling of cultural and floral data, and resource-specific subsistence models are formulated and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald E. Weaver Jr..

Located along the western escarpment of the Superstition Mountains in Central Arizona, Hieroglyphic Canyon contains numerous petroglyphs associated with a perennial or nearly perennial spring, a large dry-laid wall, bedrock mortars, and artifact scatters. Evidence indicates that the area was used as a base camp by family groups of prehistoric and early historic Indians who hunted desert bighorn sheep and deer, and gathered wild plant foods. Although design elements depicting big game are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donald C. Jackson.

Roosevelt Dam comprises the key structure in one of the first major federally sponsored reclamation projects in the West. Authorized as one of the Reclamation Service's first projects in 1903, it continues to store water for agricultural lands, homeowners, and industrial concerns in the Phoenix region that are served by the Salt River Project. Used to impound floodwaters of the Salt River, the 280-foot-high Roosevelt Dam was distinguished as the tallest and last major stone masonry gravity dams...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Jones. Andrea Gregory.

Arizona State University (ASU) is proposing to construct a new research facility on the main campus in Tempe, Maricopa County. The Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building VII (ISTB 7) will occupy about 258,000 gross square feet for classrooms, office space, research lab space, support space, and a conference/education center. The proposed facility will also incorporate pedestrian connectivity along University Drive and the existing Valley Metro Light Rail (VMLR). The location of this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Solliday.

The Arizona Depa1iment of Transportation (ADOT) acquired new right-of-way along State Route (SR) 85 to preserve the corridor for future expansion. As part of the acquisition process, ADOT razed two structures-a Roosevelt Irrigation District (RID) Zanjero house and associated outbuilding. The project is State funded and therefore subject to compliance with the Arizona Antiquities Act (A.R.S. §15- 1631 and §41- 841, et seq.) and the Arizona Historic Preservation Act (A.R.S. §41-861, et seq.)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

The United States Congress has directed the Western Regional Office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to transfer ownership of the property known as the Salt River Irrigation System to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). Prior to the transfer, the BIA must consult with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) pursuant to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and codified at 36 CFR 800. This historic context study is intended to facilitate the...

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 Mark R. Hackbarth.

Historic records documentation and photographic recordation was conducted for a return flow canal constructed between a.d. 1917 to 1921 as part of the region’s agricultural development. The feature has an interconnected history with the Salt River Project and the Roosevelt, St. Johns-Laveen, and Buckeye Irrigation Districts. The canal segment is an example of irrigation features that are fast disappearing and is eligible for inclusion on the National Register under Criterion D because of its...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith Breen.

Tolleson Union High School District plans to construct a high school on the west side of 67th Avenue between Lower Buckeye Road and Broadway Road. As part of the construction project, the road will be widened in front of the new school, which will necessitate that a segment of a historic open lateral be piped underground. ADM Group Inc., the project architects, requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. prepare a report documenting the history of the lateral.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith Breen.

The City of Tolleson (City) is planning to widen 91st Avenue between Interstate 10 and Van Buren Street. As part of the project, an open, unlined, historic lateral canal that runs along the east side of 91st Avenue will be replaced by an underground pipe. Dibble & Associates, the project engineers, requested that Logan Simpson Design Inc. (LSD) prepare a historic documentation of the canal. The documentation of the lateral canal was conducted in compliance with a Programmatic Agreement (PA)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith Breen.

The City of Phoenix is planning to improve Osborn Road between 56th Street and 50th Place (Section 29, Township 2 North, Range 4 East, USGS 7.5' Tempe, Arizona, 1952/1982). As part of the project, an open, unlined canal located south of Osborn Road between 56th Street and just west of 54th Street will be enclosed in an underground pipe (Figures 1 and 2). The canal, called Lateral 5 (or the Osborn Lateral), is a lateral of the Arizona Canal. A lateral is a smaller canal that branches off of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David E. Purcell.

SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants, conducted testing and data recovery at Site AZ G:10:8(ASM), the Hackberry Townsite, to mitigate potential impacts from construction of the Mead to Phoenix 500kV Transmission Line (the Mead to Phoenix Project). The Mead to Phoenix Project, currently under construction, is one link in a proposed regional power grid (Rogge and O’Brien 1990). SWCA conducted a program of testing and data recovery to clear construction at the Hackberry Townsite, the subject of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles D. James III.

Archaeological excavations along the north rim of Canyon del Muerto, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Arizona, were conducted during 1972 by the Museum of Northern Arizona. The preliminary objective was to salvage 28 archaeological sites located within the rights-of-way of Route N64, the Chinle to Tsaile Lake road, and four associated spur roads. Research designs for the excavations are broken into historic Navajo and prehistoric Anasazi sites; this report is concerned with the former. This...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott L. Fedick.

The Salt River Project (SRP) and Arizona Public Service Company (APS) propose to construct three transmission lines along a portion of the Beeline Highway on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (SRPMIC). SRP proposed to build a new line which connects the Pinnacle Peak, Brandow, and Papago Buttes substations. At the same time, APS proposed to realign two existing transmission lines and move them out of the Salt River channel and onto the north terrace above the river. Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Annie J. Lutes. Paul Rawson. Adrienne M. Tremblay.

The City of Phoenix (COP) Aviation Department has prepared a Comprehensive Asset Management Plan (CAMP) Short Range Development Plan for the Sky Harbor International Airport (Sky Harbor) in Phoenix, Arizona, to guide development at the airport over the next 20 years (herein referred to as the Sky Harbor CAMP Project). The plan proposes improvements to the airfield and the construction of two new Crossfield Taxiways, expansion of the passenger terminal, a grade change of the Union Pacific...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Simon Bruder. Melissa Keane.

The Williams Gateway Airport Authority (WGAA) is planning Phase 1 development of its portion of the former Williams Air Force Base in Maricopa County, Arizona. This report describes the proposed development, the consideration of alternatives to the proposed development, and the six historic World War II hangars and the two archaeological sites in the area of potential effect. The report then outlines proposed mitigation of the anticipated adverse effect. Finally, this report describes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sebastian Chamorro. Angela Huster.

Salt River Project (SRP) is proposing to construct a new 230kV transmission line in Maricopa County, Arizona (Project). The proposed Project entails the construction of seven miles of new overhead power lines that will follow a previously approved route. The proposed overhead transmission line will require the placement of 56 tubular steel pole structures. The corridor for the proposed Project varies between 100–205 feet (ft) wide. Additionally, a new 230/69kV receiving station will be built in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lauren Brooks.

*On the title page of this report it says 'draft', however this is the final report. * To meet increased demand for electricity due to growth, SRP plans to construct an approximately 20-mile (mi), double-circuit, 230-kilovolt (kV) transmission line including associated tubular steel pole structures that average 110–140 feet (ft) tall (Project). The Project will connect three 230/69kV receiving stations, including the Ball Substation in Gilbert, the Pfister Substation in southeastern Queen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Matthew A. Bauer.

Summary of the historic properties Sierra Vista and Heard Ranch Grain Silos which describes the history of the Bartlett-Heard Land and Cattle Company. Includes state Historic Property Inventory forms and zoning maps.

DOCUMENT Full-Text James E. Ayres. A. E. Rogge. Melissa Keane. Diane L. Douglas. Cindy L. Myers. Bonnie J. Clark. Karen Turnmire. Alan Ferg.

In June 1986 the Bureau of Reclamation awarded Dames & Moore a contract to conduct historical archaeology studies as part of the mitigation program for the Regulatory Storage Division (Plan 6) of the Central Arizona Project. Final reports on these studies are being issued in three volumes under the title The Historical Archaeology o f Dam Construction Camps in Central Arizona. Volume 1 is a synthesis of the entire project. Volume 3 details laboratory methods. Volume 2 contains descriptions and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Shelly Dudley.

The Salt River Valley consists of nearly half-million acres in central Arizona. It is a semiarid area with alluvial soils suitable for agriculture, but low rainfall makes irrigation a necessity for cultivation. Early settlers knew that a system of canals and laterals was necessary for agricultural production. For sustained growth, the farmers needed a water storage facility. With the passage of the National Reclamation Act in 1902, the federal government authorized the Salt River Project (SRP)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.E. (Gene) Rogge. Kirsten Erickson.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) to evaluate potential impacts of a proposed Airport Development Program and its reasonable alternatives at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (Airport). The FAA is responsible for complying with NEPA and FAA Orders 1050. 1E, Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures (U.S. Department of Transportation, FAA 2004), and 5050.4A,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

The Fort McDowell Indian Reservation is rich in historic and prehistoric archaeological resources. Systematic surface searches have located and recorded over 100 archaeological sites within the 40 square mile reservation. Such sites show that many groups have used the area, including the prehistoric Hohokam, the Yavapai, Anglo-Americans, and Mexican-Americans. Prior to 1984, however, only four sites at Fort McDowell had been excavated or tested. Two of the sites were prehistoric, consisting of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

Located along a spring-fed stream, Indian Garden has attracted and supported as wide a range of activities as perhaps any site in the area below the Mogollon Rim. Recent work by Desert Archaeology has shown that prehistoric people used the Indian Garden area as early as 770 B.C., and that Apaches exploited the locality during the early twentieth century (Ferguson and Anyon 2000a; Sarah Herr, personal communication 2007). From the 1880s to the turn of this century, the site served sequentially as...

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Booklet gives a brief overview of the history of SRP and the canal system. "The Salt River Project (SRP) began as a partnership between the federal government and landowners in Central Arizona – a partnership that has allowed the area to flourish. When landowners formed the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association (the Association) over a century ago, it signaled a turning point in the rise of Phoenix as a major Southwestern city. SRP became one of the nation’s first reclamation projects...

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This volume is the first of five volumes that report results of the Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project. The excavation was funded by the United States Bureau of Reclamation under Contract No. 6-CS-30-03500 from December 1985 to December 1988. Volume 1 presents syntheses and interpretations of the analyses that resulted from the investigation of 13 Hohokam sites in the Avra Valley west of Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project involved excavation or surface collection and mapping of...

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This volume is the first of five volumes that report results of the Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project. The excavation was funded by the United States Bureau of Reclamation under Contract No. 6-CS-30-03500 from December 1985 to December 1988. Volume 1 presents syntheses and interpretations of the analyses that resulted from the investigation of 13 Hohokam sites in the Avra Valley west of Tucson, Arizona. The Tucson Aqueduct Phase B Project involved excavation or surface collection and mapping of...

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This is the eighth volume of a nine-volume series reporting archaeological investigations in south-central Arizona along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct (SGA), conducted for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) under Contract No. 0-07-32-V0101. The SGA is a 58-mile-Iong component of the Central Arizona Project that begins east of Phoenix and extends to the vicinity of the Picacho Mountains. Specialized analyses of artifacts recovered from 45 sites excavated along the SGA are reported in this volume. The...

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This is one of nine volumes of reports on archaeology conducted for the United States Bureau of Reclamation along the route of the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, a component of the Central Arizona Project extending a distance of 58 miles from east of Phoenix, Arizona, to the Picacho Reservoir area. Eight prehistoric habitation sites were excavated in the Florence, Arizona area, as a part of this project, representing Colonial through Classic Period Hohokam occupations in this area. This volume includes...

DOCUMENT Full-Text W. Bruce Masse.

In 1970, and again in 1972, archaeologists from the Highway Salvage Program of the Arizona State Museum intensively surveyed the route of the proposed Hohokam Expressway in Phoenix, Arizona. This expressway was proposed in order to connect Interstate 10 with 44th Street and provide a north-south access route across the Salt River to relieve the traffic congestion caused by periodic flooding of the river (Fig. 1). Because a portion of the proposed right-of-way runs adjacent to Pueblo Grande and...

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Archaeological monitoring, testing, and data recovery in advance of construction related to the expansion of Sky Harbor International Airport's North Runway, including the realignment of 24th Street north of Buckeye Road. The work was authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for the purpose of compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, and conducted in accordance with a Memorandum of Agreement (1993) executed by the FAA with the...

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This is the second of two volumes presenting the results of data recovery investigations at the Dutch Canal Ruin (AZ T:12:62 [ ASM]), conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., at the western end of the North Runway, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. The Dutch Canal Ruin is a prehistoric agricultural site, dating between 1,700 and 500 years ago, consisting of fieldhouses and farmsteads scattered along a network of canals on the geological floodplain of the Salt River. The first volume...

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The results of phased data recovery efforts for the City of Phoenix Aviation Department in advance of construction of the PHX Sky Train are presented in this report. Investigations were conducted within the Sky Train's 44th Street Station area, located immediately west of 44th Street and south of the Grand Canal in Phoenix, Arizona. Twelve medium to large prehistoric canals were encountered during the project, which was an anticipated discovery given the project's location northwest of the Park...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Abbott.

The prehistoric Hohokam people of south-central Arizona are best known for their large and extensive irrigation works. However, just how the administration of the canal systems articulated with the organization of Hohokam society is an interesting and unresolved issue. In this study, substantial gains are made for reconstructing Hohokam social structure, the degree to which it was shaped by their irrigation economy, and the evolving interplay between hydraulic management and the pattern of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Pat H. Stein.

As a subcontractor to Northland Research, Inc., Archaeological Research Services, Inc. conducted a data recovery program at two historic sites which were affected by the construction of the Upper West Side Canal and Centennial Levee of the Central Arizona Project. Both sites are located in the Harquahala Valley of western Maricopa County, Arizona. Site AZ S:7:29(ASM) was the Enlarged (Dry Farm) Homestead of Hugh T. Stubblefield. It was occupied from 1930 or 1931 to mid 1933. Site AZ S:7:32(ASM)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lanita C. Van Nimwegen.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed a Class III cultural resource survey of the Horseshoe Dam Borrow Area and Borrow Haul Road (Forest Road 479). This work was designated as Modification 03 of Task 13 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project (Plan 6), performed under Contract No. 7-CS-30-05750 issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. The project area is located entirely on USDA Forest Service administered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven G. Dosh. T. Kathleen Henderson.

Northland Research, Inc. has completed a Class III cultural resources inventory and evaluation of areas of potential impact associated with the proposed Horseshoe Dam modifications. This survey project was designated Task 13 of the Supplemental Surveys of the Regulatory Storage Division, Central Arizona Project (Plan 6). It was conducted under Contract No. 7-CS-3-05750 issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. The project area is located entirely within the Tonto...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. Hart. Douglas B. Craig.

Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed archaeological testing at seven sites along a pipeline corridor at the request of the Salt River Project. Two of the sites, AZ U:10:2(ASM) and AZ U:14:74(ASM), are considered eligible to the National Register of Historic Places but required archaeological testing to determine the presence and extent of subsurface features within the project area prior to construction of the pipeline. The eligibility of the five remaining sites was unknown....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas B. Craig. David R. Hart.

This interim report summarizes the results of archaeological data recovery on portions of four sites on State Trust land that are located along a 36-mile-long natural gas pipeline that the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (SRP) is planning to construct between Gilbert and Coolidge, Arizona (Figure 1). All of the sites are associated with the prehistoric Hohokam culture and are considered eligible for the Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (AZ/NRHP),...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lyle M. Stone.

An inventory of previously recorded prehistoric and historic archaeological sites in Maricopa County has been prepared by Archaeological Research Services, Inc. (ARS), on behalf of the Maricopa County County Parks and Recreation Department, and with the assistance of a matching grant-in-aid from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, administered by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office of the Arizona State Parks Board. This inventory report identifies and evaluates...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carrie J. Gregory. Karen K. Swope. Scott Thompson.

This report presents the results of an inventory and assessment of eligibility for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) of the C. C. Cragin Project (Project), formerly known as the Morenci Water Development-Blue Ridge Project, or Blue Ridge Dam. The Project is located in Coconino and Tonto National Forests, Coconino and Gila Counties, Arizona, and is positioned on the Mogollon Rim of northern Arizona, approximately 23 miles north-northeast of Payson. The Mogollon Rim is an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Salt River Valley Water Users' Association.

At a conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, October 31, 1917 between the Director and Chief Engineer of the Reclamation service, the President, Secretary and Counsel of the Water User's Association together with the Project Manager and Accountants of the Salt River Project, it was decided to make a compete inventory not only of all movable equipment, material and supplies, but of all dams, power plants, transmission and telephone lines, canals, laterals, structures, buildings, etc., with notations...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. Owen K. Davis. Pamela C. Hatch. Johna Hutira. Suzanne M. Lewenstein. Connie L. Stone. Michael R. Waters.

Eight archaeological sites were investigated within the new right-of-way for a distribution canal and flood control structure to serve the Harquahala Valley irrigation and Drainage District. The majority of the materials in these sites, all of which were mostly surface phenomena, appear to fate to the Archaic stage, a poorly understood time in the prehistoric record of the Southwest. Analysis of data recovered suggests that these sites were campsites used during seasonal exploitation of local...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carl D. Halbirt. T. Kathleen Henderson. JoAnn E. Kisselburg.

This report describes the results of archaeological investigations undertaken at the Cake Ranch site (AZ AA:7:3(ASM)). This work occurred prior to the construction of Lateral Segment 5 of the Central Arizona Irrigation and Drainage District South Distribution System. The Cake Ranch site is located approximately four kilometers west of the town of Red Rock, Arizona in Pinal County, Section 10, T10S, R9E. The site is a large Classic period Hohokam village situated adjacent to the Santa Cruz River...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Antieau.

This report presents the results of an archaeological survey and subsequent test investigation of sites along the 68 km (42 mi) right-of-way for a proposed 500 KV transmission line from a point on the boundary of the Tonto National Forest northeast of Florence Junction to the existing Kyrene substation south of Tempe, Arizona. The power line will consist of a series of four-legged transmission towers placed at approximately 1700 foot intervals. The right-of-way varies between 30 m (100 ft) and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text David H. Greenwald.

This report presents the results of intensive data recovery through excavation of an early pre-Classic Hohokam site and an in-depth archival study of historic features, including the Extension Arizona Canal. The project was sponsored by the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) with the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) serving as consultants to ADOT for these archaeological and historical studies. Field work was conducted during May and June, 1987. Investigations of the Baccharis site, a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Stebbins. Bruce Harrill. William D. Wade. Marsha V. Gallagher. Hugh Cutler. Leonard Blake.

In 1969 the Salt River Project contracted the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) to excavate the prehistoric and ethnohistoric remains in the vicinity of the Navajo Generating Station (Page, Arizona), along the Black Mesa-Lake Powell railroad corridor, and in the immediate vicinity of the coal loading facility at the east end of the rail line south of Navajo National Monument. One hundred and twenty-three sites were identified, with 51 of those prehistoric sites excavated or tested. (The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeanne Swarthout. Sara Stebbins. Pat Stein.

This volume presents available data on each of the 50 sites excavated during the course of project investigations. The sites are presented in numerical order beginning with NA6706 and ending with NA11,251. Each site description begins with an account of the general setting and the immediate environment. This is followed by a description of site excavation and stratigraphy. Detail in this section is generally very limited. Every site that contains architecture is shown in a schematic map. Next,...

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The Kern River Pipeline will carry natural gas from the overthrust belt in southwestern Wyoming to a point of interconnection with the proposed Mojave Pipeline near Daggett, California. From there the combined Mojave/Kern River pipeline will convey the gas to the southern San Joaquin Valley near Bakersfield, California. For purposes of regulatory compliance, including review under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the Kern River project terminates at the point of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Maren P. Hopkins. Barry Price Steinbrecher. Chip Colwell. Saul L. Hedquist. Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma. Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa.

THE HOPI TRIBE and Anthropological Research, LLC, collaborated on an ethnographic study of the Navajo Generating Station and proposed Kayenta Mine Complex (NGS-KMC), and associated facilities. The study area is within the traditional homeland of the Hopi people, and a portion of it is within the Hopi Indian Reservation. Numerous Hopi clans have migration histories that situate them historically and spiritually within the study area, and ongoing cultural beliefs and practices continue to connect...

DOCUMENT Full-Text SWCA Environmental Consultants. Salt River Project.

This document is the preliminary report on archaeological data recovery at a portion of the Hohokam village of Los Guanacos (AZ U:9:116 [ASM]). Salt River Project (SRP) is proposing to construct a new generating station adjacent to the existing Kyrene Generating Station in Tempe, Arizona. Prior to construction of the generating station, SRP implemented an archaeological data- recovery project within the proposed project area (Figure 1) and contracted with SWCA, Inc., Environmental Consultants...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Salt River Project. SWCA Environmental Consultants.

This document is the second preliminary report on archaeological data recovery at a portion of the Hohokam village of Los Guanacos (AZ U:9:116 [ASM]). This report focuses on the preliminary results of the south half of the Pole yard locus while the first report discussed the north half of the locus. The contents of this preliminary report discuss the goals for the south half of the locus. Salt River Project (SRP) is proposing to construct a new generating station adjacent to the existing Kyrene...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul R. Fish.

The following preliminary report outlines the archaeological investigation of a site within the right-of-way of Arizona Highway Department Project S-434-505 (Lake Pleasant Section) on State Route 74, the Morristown-New River Highway. The excavated portion of the site will be destroyed by construction of the roadway. Excavation was carried out by the Arizona State Museum in cooperation with the Arizona State Highway Department under the Statewide Archaeological Highway Salvage Program.

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In 1998, Desert Archaeology, Inc., personnel conducted archaeological data recovery fieldwork at the request of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) for a redesigned on-ramp to the Interstate 10 (I-10) highway in the western Tucson Basin, southern Arizona. The investigated areas were within the boundaries of Las Capas, AZ AA:12:111 (ASM), a 50-hectare (123-acre) stratified site buried in the former floodplain of the Santa Cruz River. Radiocarbon dates from 46 samples of maize and...

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The archaeological excavation of a prehistoric village, site AZ T:12:220 (ASM) (Las Cremaciones), at the proposed K. Hovnanian Homes Project Phoenix, Arizona, used trench sampling, block exposures and screened excavation to recover archaeological features of site AZ T:12:220 (ASM), particularly human burials. The investigation was conducted to ensure compliance with State of Arizona statute A.R.S. 41-865 pertaining to the repatriation of human remains, the City of Phoenix Ordinance on Historic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim E. O'Connor. Jonathan E. Fuller. Victor R. Baker.

This report to the Salt River Project documents findings of the 1985-1986 study of paleofloods in the Salt River Basin of central Arizona. Included are descriptions and analyses for flood deposits preserved at sites on the Verde and Salt Rivers and Tonto Creek. Stratigraphic interpretation, hydraulic modeling, and radiometric dating allowed us to make inferences about paleoflood timing, frequency, and magnitudes during the latest Holocene at the three study sites. These results can be compared...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karolyn Jackman. Barbara Macnider.

In conjunction with an Environmental Impact Statement analysis conducted for the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) Red Mountain Freeway by Entranco Engineers, Inc., Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (ACS) performed cultural resource investigations of proposed alternative alignments. Much of one alternative had been previously surveyed by Soil Systems, Inc. (Landis 1987; Mitchell 1988). Additional alternative alignments and modifications thereof were examined by ACS....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce R. Donaldson.

Archeological research confronts its practitioners with a series of challenges. At the most general level such challenges are couched in terms of who, when, where, and even perhaps why and how questions. For those engaged in "applied" research--cultural resource management or CRM--additional challenges are presented; the archeologist is accountable to the contracting agent for the expenditure of funds, for timely performance, for providing required information--in short for the CRM practictioner...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John W. Hohmann. Margaret Davis. W. Bryan Cole.

The Cultural Resource Division of the Louis Berger Group, Inc. (Berger) was retained by ProLogis to conduct archaeological testing on private land for the subsequent sale and future development of 160 acres of farmland located at Lower Buckeye Road and 55th Avenue in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. This letter report details the results of the archaeological testing conducted on this property. Report revised September 4, 2009 and final report submitted September 30, 2009

DOCUMENT Full-Text Barbara Macnider.

People were sent out to the pipeline near Gillespie Dam to monitor emergency salvage and construction activities in the vicinity of site AZ T:13:18 (ASM). The site is a Classic Period Hohokam village that also has both prehistoric and historic canal alignments. In all instances, the pipeline crews respected the sensitivity of the cultural resources and restricted their work to the existing El Paso Natural Gas Company (EPNG) right-of-way.

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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...

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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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Judy Brunson. Scott L. Fedick.

Much current archaeological research into prehistoric Hohokam society deals with relationships among the variables of site size, types of architecture, chronological placement, and the development of the canal system through time. Unfortunately, an alarming number of Hohokam sites have been destroyed or severely altered during the last hundred years of agricultural and urban development in the Salt River Valley. Because of these losses, early historic descriptions of Hohokam sites are of vital...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christine Pfaff.

The purpose of this study was to verify and correct the information in Reclamation’s Resource Information System (RIS, previously called LAPS) data base on Reclamation-owned buildings in the Lower Colorado Region that are more than forty years old. An additional aim of the study was to identify through research and fieldwork other forty-plus year old buildings that are Reclamation-owned that have never been entered in the data base. The survey covered buildings only; structures are listed...