AZSITE
: Arizona's Cultural Resource Inventory
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NO TRIBAL DATA ARE INCLUDED IN THE AZSITE CULTURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY.
AZSITE is a work in progress database. As of 10/28/2004 AZSITE contains 79432 cultural resource records
and 13951 cultural resource inventories
Data is being corrected and added at the rate of over 100 resource and 100 inventory records a month.
Below is a list of what is in AZSITE. Specific Geographic areas have been completed for many agnecies.
SHPO records have not been completed.
Users conducting record search using AZSITE must also consult the SHPO cultural resource records.
A list quad by quad of whose data is in AZSITE is forthcoming.
ASM -Arizona State Museum records intersecting with the areas listed below are 100% complete:
State Land areas in the AZ:A-K, Q, P, V, W, CC & FF USGS 7.5' quads
Pima County East of the Tohono O'odham
All areas on AZ:T, U, N and X quads
All areas on AZ AA:1 - 3 and AZ Z:2-10 & 14-16 quads
All areas on AZ DD:1-8, 10-12
NOTE: Cultural Resource Inventories (surveys) are no longer plotted or corrected on any of the acetates at ASM.
Resources will continue to be plotted for the time being.
ASU - Arizona State Univerisity reports that 100% of their records, both resources and inventories are in AZSITE.
MNA - Cultural resources on the Museum of Northern Arizona's USGS 7.5' maps is 100% complete.
We are working on the 15' maps now.
SHPO - The State Historic and Preservation Office has many resources and inventories recorded in AZSITE.
However, no single geographical area has been reported as complete. Contact the SHPO for all record searches.
BLM - The Bureau of Land Management Field Offices have been contributing regularly to AZSITE.
Cultural Resource records for BLM lands are between 60-70% complete.
Safford, Field Office 100%
Yuma, Sierra Vista & Tucson Field Offices 90%
Arizona Strip Office 90%
Phoenix, Kingman, Havasu Field Office 50%
Contact the Field Office Archaeologist for information on the completeness of AZSITE data in
specific areas of each BLM Field Office.
Forest Lands - Some data from resources and inventories on USDA Forest
Lands in Arizona are in AZSITE. However, the each Forest area maintains their
own record management system. If record searches include Forest land, contact the
forest archaeologist for that area to conduct record checks.
Notice on spatial boundaries
All cultural resources and inventories contained in AZSITE have been converted to polygon form.
Cultural resources with recorded dimensions have been converted to rectangles based on those recorded
dimensions. Those without recorded dimensions have been buffered to a default size of 5mX5m.
Linear resources have been buffered to 10m wide.
Cultural resource inventories that were recorded as linear without exact dimensions have been buffered to 40m wide.
The actual boundaries of these resources and inventories are being updated as information is submitted by CRM agenies.
Known Problems:
Several of the linear sites stored in the Old ASM Prime system uploaded in error as
polygons.You can't miss these because they just look wrong. They show up as a elongated polygons stretching across half the state in some cases.
There are currently 2 map datums that we are dealing with. Unfortunately some of the data has been loaded in NAD83 and some in NAD27. We are trying to get everything in with the NAD27 data. Those data loaded under the NAD83 datum will appear to be about 70 meters south of where they are suppose to be. We are working on this.
The USGS has decided they will use NAD83 for their default datum. All new maps will be created using this datum. AZSITE will convert data to NAD83 when the time is right to do so.
Reporting Errors
If errors in resource or inventory location, boundary or attribute information are noticed, Rick Karl. Please specifie the resource and/or inventory number believed to be in error, the exact nature of the error and information on why you believe it to be in error. Cite references if available.
There are a lot of other gaps, but AZSITE is now the most complete, comprehensive Arizona Cultural Resource and Inventory database.
AZSITE is still a work in progress database .