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The known human history of the Grand Canyon area stretches back 10,500 years, when the first evidence of human presence in the area is found. Native Americans have inhabited the Grand Canyon and the area now covered by Grand Canyon National Park for at least the last 4,000 of those years.
The Grand Canyon [a] is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in Arizona, United States.The Grand Canyon is 277 miles (446 km) long, up to 18 miles (29 km) wide and attains a depth of over a mile (6,093 feet or 1,857 meters).
Kenton Grua was the first person in recorded history to walk the entire length of the Grand Canyon. [5] The Colorado River forms the base of the canyon and he walked along or near it from the northern terminus near Lee's Ferry (started at Badger Canyon) to the southern terminus at Grand Wash Cliffs. [9]
Grand Canyon National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Arizona, the 15th site to have been named as a national park.The park's central feature is the Grand Canyon, a gorge of the Colorado River, which is often considered one of the Wonders of the World.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grand Canyon National Park. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the ...
The Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869, led by American naturalist John Wesley Powell, was the first thorough cartographic and scientific investigation of long segments of the Green and Colorado rivers in the southwestern United States, including the first recorded passage of white men through the entirety of the Grand Canyon.
National Register of Historic Places in Grand Canyon National Park (24 P) Pages in category "Grand Canyon history" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
O'Neill Butte is a 6,071-foot (1,850 m)-elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, United States. [3] It is situated 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east-northeast of Grand Canyon Village, one mile (1.6 km) northeast of Mather Point, and one mile immediately northwest of Yaki Point.