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Identification:
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Preferred Structure Name:
| Historic Irrigation Ditch System
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Structure Number:
| MG-06
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Other Structure Name(s):
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Other Structure Name(s)
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| No records. |
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Park:
| Montezuma Castle National Monument
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Historic District:
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Historic District
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| No records. |
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Structure State:
| Arizona
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Structure County:
| Yavapai
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Region:
| Intermountain
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Cluster:
| Southwest
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Administrative Unit:
| Montezuma Castle National Monument
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LCS ID:
| 058587
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Historical Significance:
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National Register Status:
| Determined Eligible - SHPO
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National Register Date:
| 05/02/2006
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National Historic Landmark?:
| No
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Significance Level:
| National
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Short Significance Description:
| Determined eligible by AZ SHPO on 05/02/2006 at the national level under National Register Criteria C & D. The period of significance is 900-1956 AD. Section of prehistoric irrigation system still used to transport water from well outlet to downstream users.
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Long Significance Description:
| Historic Irrigation Ditch of the Montezuma Well Unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument was determined eligible by the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office on May 2, 2006 at the national level under National Register Criterion C for it embodies the characteristics of a type and period and under Criterion D because it has yielded, and is likely to yield further, information important in prehistory and history. The period of significance is 900-1956 AD.
This prehistoric irrigation system was modified and adapted by early settlers and farmers of the Verde Valley and continues to be utilized today by the National Park Service to transport the water from Montezuma Well outlet to downstream users.
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Construction Period:
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Construction Period:
| Both
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Chronology:
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Physical Event
| Begin Year
| Begin Year AD/BC
| End Year
| End Year AD/BC
| Designer
| Designer Occupation
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1.
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Built
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900
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AD
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1880
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AD
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S. Sinagua, local farmers
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Other
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2.
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Altered
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2003
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AD
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2003
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AD
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NPS
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Other
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3.
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Stabilized
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2006
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AD
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2006
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AD
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NPS
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Other
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Function and Use:
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Primary Historic Function:
| Irrigation Facility
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Primary Current Use:
| Irrigation Facility
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Other Functions or Uses:
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Other Function(s) or Use(s)
| Historic or Current
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| No records. |
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Physical Description:
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Structure Type:
| Marine/Waterway
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Volume:
| 20,000 - 2,000,000 cubic feet
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Square Feet:
| 10000
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Material(s):
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Structural Component(s)
| Material(s)
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1.
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Other
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Earth
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2.
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Other
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Stone
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Short Physical Description:
| Ditch system located in Montezuma Well unit and runs from well outlet along Beaver Creek through monument. Contains prehistoric and historic elements. Naturally lined w/ travertine deposits. Average flow is approx. 2 cfs.
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Long Physical Description:
| The historic irrigation ditch system located in Montezuma Well unit runs from well outlet along Beaver Creek through monument. The system contains prehistoric and historic elements. For the first 150m, it follows the path of the prehistoric irrigation canal (AZ O:5:94) and then diverges into two separate historic irrigation ditches. This ditch system has a series of headgates, flow rate meters and water level meters. The ditch system naturally becomes lined with travertine deposits from the high mineral content of the Well water. The system carries the water through the monument for irrigation purposes and further on past the monument boundaries to users downstream. The average flow is approximately 2 cubic feet per second or 1.3 million gallons per day.
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