Tonto Natural Bridge State Park Improvements

Author(s): Daniel Garcia

Year: 2006

Summary

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and Arizona State Parks (ASP) are planning improvements to the access road and parking areas at Tonto Natural Bridge State Park (TNBSP), north of Payson, Gila County, Arizona. The presently-planned improvements, which are being designed by AMEC, include the construction of a new parking area (the ramada parking area) and the widening of the existing office service road to accommodate an additional parking area (the office parking area). The planned parking area improvements will adversely affect a portion of archaeological site AZ O:11:38 (ASM) previously documented within the park boundaries as well as an archaeologically sensitive area that surrounds the site. ADOT requested that EcoPlan Associates, Inc. (EcoPlan) conduct concurrent geotechnical monitoring and Phase I data recovery followed by Phase II intensive Data Recovery as warranted within the park improvement areas in order to mitigate adverse affects the project may have.

Cite this Record

Tonto Natural Bridge State Park Improvements. Daniel Garcia. Mesa, AZ: EcoPlan Associates, Inc. . 2006 ( tDAR id: 399370) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8154JW8

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Keywords

Culture
Apache • Historic • Historic Native American • Western Apache

Material
Fire Cracked Rock

Site Name
AZ O:11:38 (ASM)

Site Type
Agricultural Field or Field Feature • Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Burned Surface • Lithic Scatter • Midden • Pit • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Sherd Scatter • Soil Horizon • Thermal Pit

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Ground Disturbance Monitoring

General
Ash • Charcoal • Geomorphological Observation • Lithic Debitage

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Gila (County) • Payson, AZ • Tonto Natural Bridge State Park

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Prehistoric • Protohistoric

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 300 to 1850 (Approximate years of use of AZ O:11:38 (ASM).)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.468; min lat: 34.306 ; max long: -111.438; max lat: 34.344 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Arizona State Parks

Contributor(s): Arizona State Parks; San Carlos Apache Tribe; White Mountain Apache Tribe; Tonto Apache Tribe; Yavapai-Prescott Tribe; Yavapai-Apache Nation; Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community; Hopi Tribe; Bruce Phillips; Gretchen Gallagher; Erica Tillman; Byl Bryce; Stephanie Sherwood; Les Parham

Field Director(s): Daniel Garcia

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Garcia

Permitting Agency(s): Arizona State Museum

Repository(s): Arizona State Museum

Prepared By(s): EcoPlan Associates, Inc

Submitted To(s): Arizona Department of Transportation

Record Identifiers

TRACS(s): 087 G1 263 H6588 01C

Permit No.(s): 2006-074ps

EcoPlan Project No.(s): 04-712012

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