Cultural Resources Overview for the Papago Park Planning Area

Author(s): Soil Systems, Inc.

Year: 2016

Summary

Cella Barr Associates contracted with Soil Systems, Inc. to prepare an overview of the cultural resources in the Papago Park planning area. A survey of pertinent literature and site record files was conducted and the results were summarized in this report. Recommendations for documentation and assessment of cultural resources within the park area conclude this report. A review of the archaeological and historical material encompassing the Papago Park planning area has revealed 20 archaeological sites and four significant historical structures. The sites include 19 prehistoric Hohokam and historic Piman Indian occupations of the area as well as a historic trash dump. The significant historical structures are Hayden Flour Mill, the orginal automobile bridge across the Salt River, the Mill Avenue Bridge, and the Tempe Beach Stadium. Other historical places within the planning area are the Arizona State University Administrative Building, Mouer Park and Tempe Beach Park.

Cite this Record

Cultural Resources Overview for the Papago Park Planning Area. Soil Systems, Inc.. Phoenix, AZ: Soil Systems, Inc. 2016 ( tDAR id: 402728) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8402728

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Historic Native American • Hohokam • Piman • Yuman

Material
Building Materials • Ceramic • Cobble • Cobblestone • Masonry • River Cobble

Site Name
Arizona Children's Hospital • AZ U:9:10 (ASM) • AZ U:9:11 (ASM) • AZ U:9:12 (ASM) • AZ U:9:14 (PG) • AZ U:9:24 (ASU) • AZ U:9:25 (ASU) • AZ U:9:26 (ASU) • AZ U:9:27 (ASU) • AZ U:9:28 (ASU) • AZ U:9:30 (ASU) • AZ U:9:77 (ASU) • AZ U:9:91 (ASU) • Hayden Flour Mill • Mesa 1:10 (GP) • Mesa 1:11 (GP) • Mesa 1:14 (GP) • Mesa 1:17 (GP) • Mesa 1:18 (GP) • Mesa 1:4 (GP) • Mesa 1:5 (GP) • Mesa 1:6 (GP) • Mesa 1:7 (GP) • Mesa 1:8 (GP) • Mill Avenue Bridge • Mouer Park • Santa Fe Railroad Bridge • Tempe Beach Park • Tempe Beach Stadium Show More

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Ancient Structure • Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Automobile Bridge • Baseball Field • Bridge • Burial • Cache • Ceremonial Cache • Circular Foundation • Cobblestone Wall • Commercial or Industrial Structures • Communal / Public Structure • Defensive Wall • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Dump • Flour Mill • Foundation • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Harry Hazard • Historic Communal / Public Structure • Lithic Scatter • Masonry Room Block • Masonry Structure • Midden • Mill • Non-Domestic Structures • Oval Cobble Alignment • Oval Rock Alignment • Petroglyph • Plaza • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Rock Alignment • Rock Art • Rock Shelter • Room Block • Room Block / Compound / Pueblo • Sanitarium • Shaman Burial • Sherd Scatter • Stadium • Structure • Swimming Pool • Terrace • Trash Dump • Trash Midden • Trash Mound • Tuberculosis Sanitarium • Wall Show More

Investigation Types
Records Search / Inventory Checking

General
Anderson Mouer • Arizona State University • Arizona State University Administrative Building • B. B. Mouer • Beer Bottle • Beer Can • Bottle • Bronze Plaque • Burnt Post • Can • Charles Hayden • Lower Colorado Region Ceramic • Piman Vessel • Plaque • Pointed Post • Post • Skeleton (Human) • Soda Bottle • Soda Can • Tempe Garden Club • Vessel • Works Progress Administration • WPA

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Mouer Park • Papago Park • Phoenix, AZ • Salt River • Salt River Valley • Tempe, AZ • Tempe Butte

Temporal Keywords
1870s • 1874 • 1880s • 1890s • 1898 • 1900s • 1910s • 1913 • 1920s • 1923 • 1928 • 1930 • 1930s • 1931 • 1934 • 1949 • 19th Century • 20th Century • Civano Phase • Classic Period • Historic • New Deal era • Prehistoric • Santa Cruz Phase • Sedentary Period • Soho Phase • Sweetwater Phase Show More

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 900 to 1450 (Date range of prehistoric sites with suggested occupation ranges.)

Calendar Date: 1874 to 1934 (Date range of historic site construction.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.962; min lat: 33.425 ; max long: -111.916; max lat: 33.448 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Gila Pueblo; Arizona State Museum; Arizona State University (ASU); Carol Griffith; Robert Dahmen; Barbara Macnider

Field Director(s): A. E. Dittert, Dr.

Sponsor(s): Cella Barr Associates

File Information

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2016_SoilSystems_CulturalResources.pdf 372.43kb May 3, 2016 3:09:04 PM Confidential
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Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager