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The city of Phoenix is the location of 233 of these properties and districts, including 1 National Historic Landmark; the 204 properties and districts and 2 National Historic Landmarks located elsewhere in the county are listed here. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted January 24, 2025. [2]
The Painted Rock Dam was constructed during a 3-year period from 1957–1960 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to help control seasonal floods on the lower reaches of the Gila River. The river had no significant impediments between the Colorado River and the Coolidge Dam hundreds of miles upstream.
The historic Paradise Valley Methodist Church was built in 1960 and is located at 4455 East Lincoln Road. The church's chapel with its stained glass window was built in 1964. Both are featured in the "Valley of the Sun", television program about Phoenix and its surrounding areas in the 1960s.
There was a flood in Lehi in 1891, which destroyed Fort Utah and carried away acres of valuable farmland in low-lying areas. [1] There are numerous historical properties in Mesa which have either been listed in the National Register of Historic Places or on the list of the Mesa Historic Properties. The city's Mesa Historic Preservation Program ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Phoenix, the largest city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. AZ-19, "Arizona Canal, North of Salt River, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ", 62 photos, 70 data pages, 6 photo caption pages; History of the Arizona Canal and other canals in the system, on the site of the Salt River Project
Aerial view of the dam, river, and canals in 2018. The Granite Reef Diversion Dam is a concrete diversion dam located 22 miles (35 km) Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona. It impounds the Salt River for irrigation purposes. If it were to overflow, more than half of the Yavapai Reservation would be flooded.
The Old Waddell Dam approximately halfway submerged under rising waters of the new reservoir, circa 1992. First referred to as the Frogs Tank Dam, the original Waddell Dam was the ambition of local businessmen who wanted to develop a project that used the Agua Fria for the irrigation of around 100,000 acres (40,000 ha) of land.