A Cultural Resources Survey of 17.5 Miles of State Route 88, the Apache Trail, Between Apache Junction and Tortilla Flat, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona

Author(s): Andrew I. Duff

Year: 1995

Summary

Between April 15 and June 14, 1993, Archaeological Research Services, Inc. performed a cultural resources survey of State Route 88 (the Apache Trail). The right-of-way varies from 66 to 200 feet, but construction as-builts were not available. Therefore, the Arizona Department of Transportation requested that a 200 foot wide right-of-way be surveyed for the entire project length unless clearly marked property boundaries or other right-of-way indications were present. The 17.5 mile long survey corridor crosses lands owned by the Arizona Department of Transportation, and sections of Arizona Department of Transportation right-of-way across Bureau of Land Management lands. That segment of State Route 88 on Tonto National Forest lands was constructed through the provisions of a Special Use Permit issued to the Arizona Department of Transportation by Tonto National Forest.

The survey was conducted under the conditions and authority of a Tonto National Forest special use permit issued to Archaeological Research Services, Inc. on 2/17/93, Arizona State Museum general permit number 93-11, and Bureau of Land Management permit number AZ-000054 issued 10/13/90 (fieldwork authorization number PDO-93-5, 3/23/93).

The project area encompasses approximately 424.24 acres, of which approximately, 371.21 were actually surveyed when the existing paved surface of State Route 88 is excluded. The Arizona Department of Transportation requested the survey (Arizona Department of Transportation Project No. STP-952-4(1), Tracs PN 195 H3275 01C) in anticipation of a proposed pavement preservation project. Archaeological Research Services performed a Class III (Intensive Field Inventory) survey in order to locate and record any cultural resources that could be disturbed as a result of the proposed undertaking. This study provides descriptions and National Register eligibility evaluations for cultural resources encountered during the survey.

As a result of the survey, 22 archaeological sites (4 previously recorded, 18 newly recorded) and 49 isolated artifact occurrences or cultural features were recorded (or rerecorded or relocated).

This is the second revision of this document, with earlier versions completed 29 June 1993 and 15 November 1994.

Cite this Record

A Cultural Resources Survey of 17.5 Miles of State Route 88, the Apache Trail, Between Apache Junction and Tortilla Flat, Pinal and Maricopa Counties, Arizona, 31. Andrew I. Duff. Archaeological Research Services, Inc. Project Report ,93. Tempe, AZ: Archaeological Research Services, Inc. 1995 ( tDAR id: 405682) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8405682

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Keywords

Culture
Historic • Historic Native American • Papago • Pima

Material
Aluminum • Amber Glass • Aqua Glass • Basalt • Brick • Brown Rhyolite • Buffware • Building Materials • Cement Base • Ceramic • Chalcedony • Chert • Chipped Stone • Clear Glass • Cobalt Glass • Concrete • Fine-Grained Quartzite • Fine-Grained Rhyolite • Fire Cracked Rock • Gila Plainware • Gila Plainware, Salt Variety • Glass • Gold Paint • Gray Chert • Gray Rhyolite • Green Rhyolite • Ground Stone • Ironstone • Lavendar Rhyolite • Masonry • Metabasalt • Metal • Metal Pole • Metamorphosed Shale • Mica • Mineral • Mudstone • Paint • Plainware • Pole • Purple Chert • Purple Glass • Purple Mudstone • Purple Rhyolite • Quartzite • Red Mudstone • Red-on-Buffware • Red Rhyolite • Red Tuff • Redware • Rhyolite • Rubber • Salt Redware • Sand • SCA Glass • Shell • Steel • Tin • Tuff • volcanic material • White Chert • White Ironstone • White Quartzite • Wood Show More

Site Name
ADOT Bridge 0026 • ADOT Bridge 0193 • Apache Trail • AR-03-12-03-182 • AR-03-12-03-190 • AR-03-12-03-446 • AR-03-12-03-510 • AR-03-12-03-538 • AR-03-12-03-539 • AR-03-12-03-540 • AR-03-12-03-541 • AR-03-12-03-542 • AR-03-12-03-543 • AR-03-12-03-544 • AR-03-12-03-545 • AR-03-12-03-546 • AR-03-12-03-547 • AR-03-12-03-548 • AR-03-12-03-549 • AR-03-12-03-550 • AR-03-12-03-551 • AR-03-12-03-553 • AR-03-12-03-556 • AR-03-12-06-218 • AZ U:10:72 (ASM) • AZ U:11:60 (ASM) • AZ U:11:61 (ASM) • AZ U:11:62 (ASM) • AZ U:7:10 (ASM) • AZ U:7:11 (ASM) • AZ U:7:12 (ASM) • AZ U:7:13 (ASM) • AZ U:7:14 (ASM) • AZ U:7:15 (ASM) • AZ U:7:16 (ASM) • AZ U:7:17 (ASM) • AZ U:7:18 (ASM) • AZ U:7:19 (ASM) • AZ U:7:20 (ASM) • AZ U:7:21 (ASM) • AZ U:7:22 (ASM) • AZ U:7:23 (ASM) • AZ U:7:24 (ASM) • AZ U:7:25 (ASM) • AZ U:7:6 (ASM) • AZ U:7:7 (ASM) • AZ U:7:8 (ASM) • AZ U:7:9 (ASM) • Boulder Creek Bridge • Mormon Flat Bridge • SHPO 2856 • SHPO 2860 Show More

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Bedrock Grinding Feature • Brick Wingwall • Bridge • Bridge Abutment • Camp • Check Dam • Chipping Station • Claim Corner Marker • Concrete Abutment • Concrete Culvert • Concrete Pad • Concrete Post • Concrete Slab • Concrete Wingwall • Construction Camp • Culvert • Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Encampment • Ground Stone Scatter • Historic Structure • Isolated Artifact • Isolated Feature • Lithic Reduction Area • Lithic Scatter • Lithic Testing Area • Masonry Culvert • Masonry Structure • Metal Post • Milling Feature • Mining Claim • Mining Prospect • Pad • Phone Line Base • Post • Post Hole / Post Mold • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Road • Road, Trail, and Related Structures or Features • Rock Alignment • Rockpile • Rock Shelter • Settlements • Slab • Steel Bridge • Stone Structure • Structure • Transmission Line Base • U-Shaped Structure • Water Control Feature • Water Tank • Wingwall Show More

Investigation Types
Site Evaluation / Testing

General
.22 Cartridge • .38 Cartridge • 32 ACP • Aluminum Lid • Bailing Wire • Baking Powder Lid • Basalt Flake • Beverage Can • Bolt • Bottle Lid • Button • Calumet • Can • Cartridge • Chert Core • Chert Flake • Coffee Can • Core • Crimped Seam Can • Crockery • Cross • Crown Cap • Drill • Evaporated Milk Can • Flake • Food Can • Hills Brothers • Hole-in-Cap Can • Horse Shoe • Lard Can • Mano • Matchstick Top Can • Meat Can • Meat Tin • Medicine Bottle • Memorial Cross • Metabasalt Flake • Metal Cross • Milk Bottle • Milk Can • Mudstone Core • Mudstone Flake • Mule Shoe • Nail • Oil Can • One Hand Mano • Owens Illinois • Paint Can • Papago Vessel • Pima Vessel • Quartzite Flake • Quartzite Mano • REM-UMC • Rhyolite Core • Rhyolite Flake • Rubber Shoe Sole • Sanitary Seam Can • Sardine Can • Screw • Shell Button • Shoe Sole • Single Hand Mano • Solder Seam Can • Tin • Tin Can • Tobacco Tin • U.S.C. Co. • Uniface • Vessel • Wes Friesel • Wire • Wire Nail • Wooden Cross Show More

Geographic Keywords
Apache Junction, AZ • Arizona (State / Territory) • Basin and Range Physiographic Province • Canyon Lake • Central Arizona • Goldfield, AZ • Goldfield Caldera • Maricopa (County) • Mormon Flat Dam • Mountain Region • Pinal (County) • Roosevelt Dam • Roosevelt Power Canal • Salt River • Superstition Mountains • Tonto National Forest • Tortilla Flat, AZ

Temporal Keywords
1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 20th Century • Historic • Prehistoric

Spatial Coverage

min long: -111.558; min lat: 33.407 ; max long: -111.333; max lat: 33.54 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Contributor(s): Lyle M. Stone; Robert Haynes-Peterson; Scott Kwiatkowski; Gregory Woodall; Tom Wright

Landowner(s): Arizona Department of Transportation; Bureau of Land Management; U. S. Forest Service

Permitting Agency(s): Tonto National Forest; Arizona State Museum; Bureau of Land Management

Prepared By(s): Archaeological Research Services, Inc.

Submitted To(s): Arizona Department of Transportation

Record Identifiers

Bureau of Land Management Permit No.(s): AZ-000054

Arizona Department of Transportation Project No. (s): STP-952-4(1), TRACS 88 PN 195 H3275 01C

Project No.(s): N-900-965

Arizona State Museum General Permit No.(s): 93-11

Fieldwork Authorization No.(s): PDO-93-5

Contract No.(s): 90-22

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