AZ State Parks DAHA Resources

DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark D. Elson. William H. Doelle.

Catalina State Park is situated approximately 22 km (14 miles) north of Tucson, Arizona. Within this beautiful and pristine desert area lie a large number of relatively undisturbed archaeological sites. The park has witnessed a long and varied history. Sometime after 5000 B.C. Archaic period hunters and gatherers first roamed through the park area in their search for game and edible plants. During the following Hohokam period the park area was intensively occupied. A wide range of sites are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Bridge Danson.

The Santa Cruz River is located in south-central Arizona in the Santa Cruz and Pima Counties. A short stretch of the rivers lies in northern Sonora and forms a big horseshoe bend as the river cuts across the foot of the Patagonia Mountains from the San Rafael Valley into the Santa Cruz Valley proper. In the San Rafael Valley, where the headwaters of the river are found, the Santa Cruz passes few towns or villages. The first one is Lochiel, a small cluster of houses on the International...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah L. Swartz.

Limited archaeological testing was conducted at the Romero Ruin, AZ BB:9:1 (ASM), during the spring of 1993 by archaeologists from the Center for Desert Archaeology. The site is a large prehistoric Hohokam village with an overlying historic component, located in Catalina State Park approximately 10 miles north of Tucson, Arizona. The purpose of the testing program was threefold: 1) to expose archaeological features along the interpretive trail prior to the features' being stabilized, 2) to...

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This document presents a plan of work to conduct Arizona and National Registers of Historic Places (A/NRHP) eligibility testing at a cultural resource site that is located within the Boyce Thompson Arboretum (BTA), west of Superior, Pinal County, Arizona. Jacobs Civil, Inc., on behalf of the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), requested that Carter & Burgess, Inc. (C&B) conduct the testing to evaluate the eligibility of AZ 11:12:100 (ASM) for inclusion in the A/NRHP. The testing and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

Arizona State Parks & Trails (ASPT) is in the process of installing cabins at Patagonia Lake State Park (PALA) (see SHPO-1181 [138879]). As originally planned, the installation would result in a significant amount of excess soil. Planners identified the surveyed area as a location for stockpiling this material. On October 23, 2017, the author conducted a Class III cultural resource survey which included the proposed area of potential effects (APE). No historic properties were identified within...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

Staff at Kartchner Caverns State Park are considering alterations to sections of the Foothills Loop Trail. Specifically, the westernmost portion of this trail crosses two dry drainages which run east from the eastern flank of the Whetstone Mountains. At present, these crossings include steep, stepped sections. An alternative would be to replace these sections with switchbacks or ramps paralleling the drainages. The property in question is owned by Arizona State Parks & Trails (ASPT). If the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum (BTA), a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, owns a portion of the land within Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park (BOTH). At the request of BTA, this office completed a Class III cultural resource survey of approximately 20.7 ac of this property in September of 2017. Survey encountered one previously recorded site and one site which had not been previously recorded. In addition, nine IOs were encountered

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

Arizona State Parks & Trails (ASPT) intends to build a trail section at Kartchner Caverns State Park. The two ends of the proposed section will connect with the existing Foothill Loop Trail in order to add another loop. The proposed trail section is approximately 1.7 miles long. Construction will involve the clearing of rock and vegetation, along with the installation of steps at places where the trail crosses drainages. The area of potential effects (APE) is on lands owned and managed by ASPT....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

Arizona State Parks & Trails (ASPT) is considering the procurement of approximately 51.5 ac in the town of Bouse, Arizona. The property is privately owned at this time. If the property is acquired by ASPT, it will be developed into the Arizona Peace Trail State Park. Funding to date has derived from ASPT. Details regarding future funding, permitting, and development are currently unavailable. No archaeological sites were encountered. Four IOs -one feature and three artifacts- were recorded....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Paula M. Samuelson Pflepsen.

Arizona State Parks (ASP) proposes to complete a project to extend individual tent campgrounds, create a group camp area, and install a Ramada for campers in Kartchner Caverns State Park. ASP proposes minimal ground disturbing preparation consisting of vegetation clearing and leveling for primitive tent-camp locals north and south of an existing gravel road in the southeast portion of the park. In addition, a separate group camp location is proposed, which consists of clearing and leveling an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Grant Fahrni.

Arizona State Parks and Trails (ASPT) requested Logan Simpson conduct a Class III cultural resources inventory of approximately 19.21 acres located on the south side of Patagonia Lake within Patagonia Lake State Park, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The survey and monitoring were conducted to facilitate ASPT’s proposed plan to construct several cabins with associated access roads and a parking lot. The survey consists of two distinct project areas—one for the proposed development and one for a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Eric Davis. Korri Turner.

A cultural resources survey to locate and evaluate cultural resources within a portion of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum State Park (BTA) prior to geotechnical activities associated with the construction of a proposed new entry road and parking lot.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Hoski Schaafsma.

A cultural resources survey of three separate areas within the Catalina State Park in Pima County, Arizona for proposed improvements and expansion of the park’s main road, and the group and overnight camping areas. This cultural resources survey of portions of Catalina State Park identified one new and one previously recorded archaeological site and twelve isolated occurrences (lOs). Previously recorded site AZ BB:9:218 (ASM) is within the Sutherland Wash Archaeological District. This site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

This report presents the results of a cultural resources survey of three small parcels of land located within the San Rafael State Park in Santa Cruz County. The work was requested HDR Engineering, Inc. to determine whether road improvements and the construction of a new parking lot will have any effect on significant archaeological or historical remains that may be present. William H. Doelle, Ph.D., of Desert Archaeology, Inc., is the Principal Investigator for the project. Homer Thiel of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Todd W. Bostwick. J. Claire Dean.

In December 1994, an Arizona Site Steward notified the Phoenix City Archaeologist that a major rock art panel in South Mountain Park had been spray painted with graffiti. At least 700 years old, this Hohokam petroglyph panel is located on a dense, patinated, granodiorite boulder near a city street at the northern edge of the park's boundary. Spray paint graffiti had previously been placed on city structures along the street, as well as on several petroglyph boulders within the park, but this act...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sophia Kelly.

This document represents a monitoring plan for a proposed water line installation at Kartchner Caverns State Park. The proposed water line will cut through the southwest corner of an Archaic artifact scatter, AZ EE:3:28 (ASM). Site AZ EE:3:28(ASM) was determined eligible for listing on the NRHP. In consultation with SHPO, a “no adverse” project finding of effect would be appropriate on the condition that an archaeologist meeting the Secretary of Interior standards monitored the construction of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text WIlliam L. Deaver.

Salt River Project (SRP) plans to reroute a segment of the Superior-Silver King 115 kV transmission line that crosses lands owned by Resolution Copper Mining (Resolution) west of Superior, Pinal County, Arizona. The transmission line draws power from the existing SRP Silver King to Kyrene East End Transmission System (SKKEETS). The transmission line is located entirely on lands owned by Resolution, and the project is the relocation of an existing 115 kV line segment. The relocation of the power...

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.C. MacWilliams.

The foremost goal of this project was recording all archaeological and paleontological finds in the riparian corridor the Santa Cruz River, on the San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant. Results of this full-coverage survey are intended to be useful for determining land management in the corridor. Observations about site boundaries, disturbance and potential for in-place buried deposits contribute to meeting these objectives. At the same time, these results are intended to provide information from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text A.C. MacWilliams.

The foremost goal of this project was recording all archaeological and paleontological finds in the riparian corridor the Santa Cruz River, on the San Rafael de la Zanja Land Grant. Results of this full-coverage survey are intended to be useful for determining land management in the corridor. Observations about site boundaries, disturbance and potential for in-place buried deposits contribute to meeting these objectives. At the same time, these results are intended to provide information from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text S. Adrian White.

In March and April 1993, a preservation/stabilization assessment plan was developed and subsequent stabilization of the Romero Ruin (AZ BB:9:1 [ASM]) was conducted by Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI) under contract to the Center for Desert Archaeology and Catalina State Park. The architectural recording forms were completed in conjunction with minimal excavation from April 5 through April 23. The actual stabilization occurred from May 3 through May 14. The Romero Ruin is a Hohokam site with an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Catherine B. Johnson.

Arizona State Parks proposes to add several hiking and equestrian trails in Patagonia Lake State Park that will also lead to the Sonoita Creek State Natural Area, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The land surveyed is partially owned by Arizona State Parks with other areas leased from the Arizona State Land Department. This report represents the results of a Class III cultural resources survey completed under ASM Blanket Permit #2001-22bl. Included is a resurvey of a proposed trail segment that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeremy Moss.

The goal of the survey was determine if the proposed RV sites would adversely affect the cultural resources present or have the potential to affect any previously unknown cultural resources. After looking over the information from previous archaeological surveys (Madsen and Bayman 1989, Whalen 1971) it was determined that the proposed RV sites lie within a large lithic artifact scatter w/ roasting pits, identified as Late Archaic first by Whalen in 1971, and again by Madsen and Bayman (1989)...