Archaeological Investigations: Salt River Project Coronado - Silverking Transmission Line 7.5 mi. Segment of SRP Line from Eastern Sitgreaves National Forest Boundary to APS-SRP Common Corridor, Federal Land, Navajo County, Arizona: Report for Archaeological Survey of 24 Proposed Tower Locations and Associated Access Roads Along 7.5 mi. of the Coronado-Silverking Transmission Line Within Sitgreaves National Forest

Author(s): William S. Marmaduke; Dana Hartman; Donna R. Howard

Year: 1978

Summary

At the request of The Salt River Project, archeologists from the Museum of Northern Arizona surveyed 24 tower locations and their associated access roads for the 7.5 mile segment of the Coronado-Silverking 500 kV transmission line in the Sitgreaves National Forest. The request for the survey came from Bettina Rosenberg, archeological administrator for The Salt River Project, in a letter dated January 12, 1978.

The Coronado-Silverking transmission line is the main conduit to the Phoenix metropolitan area for power generated at Coronado Station. Beginning at Coronado Station northeast of St. Johns, the transmission line shares a west running corridor with a Coronado-Cholla Station 500 kV "back-up" line. Northwest of Snowflake, the lines separate and the Silverking line continues West, entering the Sitgreaves National Forest. The 7.5 mile survey segment is the portion of the 200 feet wide Silverking line corridor between the Sitgreaves National Forest boundary on the east and the joint corridor on the west.

Museum archeologists initially surveyed the entire 7.5 mile long, 200 feet wide corridor in December, 1977. During the December work, 23 archeological sites were discovered and recorded. The Museum performed the original corridor survey to provide archeological data for tower placement planning by Salt River Project. The purpose of the present survey is to assess the potential impacts of tower access and construction, and of cable stringing. Defined by the Sitgreaves National Forest in their Cultural Resources Plan for Coronado Project, the impact zones of the Silverking line are a 200 feet radius around each tower hub, the access roadway plus a 50 feet buffer on either side, and the entire tensioning sites plus a 50 feet surrounding buffer.

The present survey required 3 days to complete, beginning on January 28, and ending on January 30, 1978.

Six additional sites were discovered, mostly within or near the initial access road impact zones. In each case, the road corridors were restricted to avoid the archeological remains. One site, found within the previously surveyed corridor, was defined during a reassessment of a previously recorded site. According to the guidelines agreed upon between the Sitgreaves National Forest and the Salt River Project, no sites found during this or the previous survey will suffer direct impact from construction of the Coronado-Silverking line. There are particular tower locations where extreme caution must be exercised, however, during construction, and the Museum recommends that earthmoving, and in a few cases tower erection, be monitored rigorously by a professional archeologist.

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Archaeological Investigations: Salt River Project Coronado - Silverking Transmission Line 7.5 mi. Segment of SRP Line from Eastern Sitgreaves National Forest Boundary to APS-SRP Common Corridor, Federal Land, Navajo County, Arizona: Report for Archaeological Survey of 24 Proposed Tower Locations and Associated Access Roads Along 7.5 mi. of the Coronado-Silverking Transmission Line Within Sitgreaves National Forest. William S. Marmaduke, Dana Hartman, Donna R. Howard. Flagstaff, AZ: Museum of Northern Arizona, Department of Anthropology. 1978 ( tDAR id: 402682) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8402682

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Keywords

Culture
Ancestral Puebloan • Basketmaker • Historic • Mogollon

Material
Alma Plainware • Black-on-Whiteware • Brownware • Building Materials • Canvas • Ceramic • Chert • Chipped Stone • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Grayware • Ground Stone • Jacal • Juniper • Limestone • Macrobotanical • Masonry • Metal • Plainware • Purple Glass • Redware • Snowflake Black-on-Whiteware • Stone • Textile • Timber • White Mound Black-on-Whiteware • White Mountain Redware • Whiteware • Wood Show More

Site Name
Arizona P:6:19 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:20 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:22 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:25 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:30 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:31 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:32 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:34 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:35 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:36 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:39 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:40 (MNA) • Arizona P:6:41 (MNA) • AZ-03-01-05-440 • AZ-03-01-05-441 • AZ-03-01-05-443 • AZ-03-01-05-446 • AZ-03-01-05-451 • AZ-03-01-05-452 • AZ-03-01-05-453 • AZ-03-01-05-455 • AZ-03-01-05-456 • NA15,568 • NA15,570 • NA15,572 • NA15,573 • NA15,576 • NA15,579 • NA15,584 • NA15,585 • NA15,586 • NA15,598 • NA15,599 • NA 15,601 • NA15,602 • NA15,603 • NA15,604 • NA15,605 • NA15,606 Show More

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Ashy Soil • Camp • Ceramic Scatter • Charcoal Area • Check Dam • Circular Ashy Area • Circular Depression • Corral • Depression • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Foundation • Hamlet / Village • Hearth • Jacal Structure • Juniper Branch Corral • Limestone Pueblo • Limestone Wall • Lithic Scatter • Masonry Pueblo • Midden • Pit • Pit House • Pit House / Earth Lodge • Pot Break • Pueblo • Rectangular Structure • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Roasting Pit • Roasting Pit / Oven / Horno • Rock Alignment • Rock Pile • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Settlements • Sherd Scatter • Stone Foundation • Structure • Trash Dump • Trash Pile • Village • Wall • Windbreak • Wooden Structure Show More

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Baking Soda Container • Beer Can • Bottle • Cabin-Shape Container • Can • Ceramic Pot • CGS • Chert Flake • Chert Projectile Point • Condiment Bottle • Coronado Project • Coronado-Silverking • Coronado Station • Corrugated Brownware • Corrugated Grayware • Corrugated Ware • Flake • Food Can • Food Container • Glass Bottle • Grinding Slab • Lithic Debris • Meat Can • Milk Can • Pot • Projectile Point • Salt River Project • SRP • Syrup Container • Transmission Line • Wine Bottle Show More

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Chevelon Creek • Mogollon Plateau • Navajo (County) • Potato Wash • Sitgreaves National Forest • Squaw Wash • Wildcat Canyon

Temporal Keywords
Historic • P II • P III • Prehistoric

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 900 to 1100 (Date range of prehistoric sites described in the survey.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -110.699; min lat: 34.582 ; max long: -110.533; max lat: 34.611 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Bettina Rosenberg; Donna Howard; Bill Marmaduke; Alan Dulaney; Jerry Shelley

Field Director(s): Dana Hartman

Landowner(s): U. S. Forest Service

Sponsor(s): Salt River Project

Record Identifiers

Salt River Project Library Barcode No.(s): 00030610

Report No.(s): A-77-159

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