HAER No. AZ-19, Arizona Canal, North of the Salt River, Phoenix Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data, and Reduced Copies of Drawings

Author(s): Shelley C. Dudley

Year: 1991

Summary

The Arizona Canal is the northernmost canal in the water distribution system of the Salt River Project, located within the urban center of Phoenix in Central Arizona. The Salt River Valley, at the time of the canal's construction in 1883, already had canals on both the north and south side of the Salt River irrigating portions of the Valley. Yet the men who organized the Arizona Canal Company saw the scorched, desolate desert in the northern part of the Valley and envisioned thousands of additional cultivated acres if they could build another canal to provide the needed water.

The Arizona Canal allowed for the development of over 65,000 acres in the Salt River Valley. It improved water distribution to the northside canals and provided water for the first hydropower plants to supply electricity to Phoenix.

This report includes photographs along with written historical and descriptive data for the Arizona Canal.

Cite this Record

HAER No. AZ-19, Arizona Canal, North of the Salt River, Phoenix Vicinity, Maricopa County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data, and Reduced Copies of Drawings, 19. Shelley C. Dudley. 1991 ( tDAR id: 437899) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8437899

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Site Name
Arizona Canal

Site Type
Agricultural or Herding • Canal or Canal Feature • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Architectural Documentation • Historic Background Research

General
Arizona Canal • Historic American Engineering Record • Salt River Project • SRP

Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory) • Glendale, AZ • Maricopa (County) • Peoria, AZ • Phoenix, AZ • Salt River Indian Reservation • Scottsdale, AZ

Temporal Keywords
1970's • 1980's • 20th Century • Historic • Late 19th Century

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1883 to 1885 (Original construction dates for the Arizona Canal)

Calendar Date: 1907 to 1909 (Dates of enlargement.)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -112.554; min lat: 33.024 ; max long: -111.224; max lat: 33.758 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Prepared By(s): Salt River Project

Submitted To(s): National Park Service, Western Region

Record Identifiers

HAER No.(s): AZ-19

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