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
Keywords
Culture
Historic
Site Name
Arizona Canal
Site Type
Agricultural or Herding
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Canal or Canal Feature
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Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Architectural Documentation
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Historic Background Research
General
Arizona Canal
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Historic American Engineering Record
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Salt River Project
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SRP
Geographic Keywords
Arizona (State / Territory)
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Glendale, AZ
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Maricopa (County)
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Peoria, AZ
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Phoenix, AZ
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Salt River Indian Reservation
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Scottsdale, AZ
Temporal Keywords
1970's
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1980's
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20th Century
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Historic
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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
File Information
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