HAER No. AZ-7, Coolidge Dam, Pinal County, Arizona: Photographs, Written Historical and Descriptive Data, and Reduced Copies of Drawings

Summary

Coolidge Dam was authorized in 1924 and was completed in 1928. It was built by the U.S. Indian Service. Today Coolidge Dam supplies water from the Gila River to the Gila River Indian Community and to non-Indian growers as well.

This report satisfies Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) standards as established by the National Park Service. A copy of this report, along with a complete set of archival negatives and photographs, has been deposited in the HAER collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Salt River Project Digital Library

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Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1925 to 1928 (Coolidge Dam construction)

Calendar Date: 1928 to 1983 (operation of the San Carlos Irrigation Project)

Calendar Date: 1694 to 1924 (History of Pima Farming and Gila River water usage prior to Coolidge Dam construction)

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Salt River Project Cultural Resource Manager

Sponsor(s): USDI Bureau of Reclamation, Phoenix Area Office

Prepared By(s): Salt River Project

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

Record Identifiers

Historic American Engineering Record No.(s): AZ-7

NADB document id number(s): 2203101

Report No.(s): DI-BR-APO-CCRS86-12

SRP Library Barcode No.(s): 00030579

NADB citation id number(s): 000000167205

Contract No.(s): 4-PG-32-18580

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