Archaeological Monitoring of the Relocated Salt River Project Well Site on the Mesa Terrace North of McKellips Road, Mesa, Arizona
Creators: name: Hackbarth, Mark R.
Publisher: name: Northland Research, Inc.
Year: 1998
Subjects: subject: Mesa, AZ
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/77549/mesa-az
subject: Mesa Terrace
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79661/mesa-terrace
subject: Lehi Terrace
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79725/lehi-terrace
subject: Arizona (State / Territory)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/335/arizona-state-territory
subject: Utah Canal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79724/utah-canal
subject: Consolidated Canal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/79723/consolidated-canal
subject: Modern
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/47/modern
subject: Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/53/prehistoric
subject: Hohokam
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/21/hohokam
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/25/historic
subject: Mormon
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/2715/mormon
subject: Euroamerican
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/28/euroamerican
subject: AZ U:9:180(ASM)
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/22500/az-u9180asm
subject: Ditch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1246/ditch
subject: Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/272/resource-extraction-production-transportation-structure-or-features
subject: Milling Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/352/milling-feature
subject: Agricultural or Herding
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/273/agricultural-or-herding
subject: Bedrock Grinding Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/353/bedrock-grinding-feature
subject: Canal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/818/canal
subject: Canal or Canal Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/275/canal-or-canal-feature
subject: Archaeological Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/339/archaeological-feature
subject: Water Control Feature
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/279/water-control-feature
subject: Bedrock Mortar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1354/bedrock-mortar
subject: Quartzite Bedrock Mortar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1610/quartzite-bedrock-mortar
subject: Field Lateral Canal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-type/1611/field-lateral-canal
subject: Quartzite
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/217/quartzite
subject: Utah Ditch
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147587/utah-ditch
subject: Amberwood Estate II
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147588/amberwood-estate-ii
subject: McKellips Road
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147585/mckellips-road
subject: Well on Mesa Terrace
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/147586/well-on-mesa-terrace
subject: Mortar
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/135338/mortar
subject: Ground Disturbance Monitoring
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/investigation-type/20/ground-disturbance-monitoring

description: Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) has completed an archaeological monitoring effort for the Salt River Project (SRP) in Mesa, Arizona. Monitoring of construction work was conducted over the course of three partial days, from March 31 to April 2, 1997 by one archaeologist. Roughly nine person-hours were expended during the fieldwork. The proposed SRP project area was the location for a new well site, which replaced an abandoned well located within the newly expanded right-of-way for McKellips Road. The 440 square meters project area was on lands jointly administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Salt River Project. Northland conducted the monitoring project for the Salt River Project, under Arizona State Museum Permit No. 97-14BL. The purpose of the monitoring effort was to search for historic and prehistoric canals that traversed along the Mesa Terrace escarpment. For example, the Utah Canal constructed in 1878 was located in the vicinity of where the new SRP well site was built. Northland located and recorded one artifact and two features (one buried, one surface) during the monitoring effort. The features were recorded as part of AZ U:9:180(ASM), which may be a prehistoric precursor to the Utah Ditch. South of the project area and slightly downslope from the buried canal was a length of an open ditch that was a field lateral.