WELCOME TO PIMA COUNTY CULTURAL RESOURCES
AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION!
Pima County is rich in history, cultural diversity, living traditions,
and regional character, all of which define our collective cultural
heritage and community identity. These qualities reside where our
Native American, Spanish Colonial, Mexican, and American traditions
intersect with the natural environment to create a unique, multi-storied
cultural landscape. The Pima County Cultural Resources & Historic
Preservation Office honors this heritage by working to preserve our
cultural and historical resources. Cultural and historical resources
are those places that are created by and reflect upon the people
who have lived for thousands of years in what is today Pima County,
including ancestral Native American sites, historic Spanish colonial,
Mexican, and Euroamerican sites, traditional cultural places, historic
buildings, districts, objects, living traditions, and working landscapes.
Cultural and Historical Resources
Pima County is committed to the protection, conservation, and preservation
of cultural and historical resources to benefit its citizens of today
and to preserve this rich heritage for its citizens of tommorow.
The citizens of Pima County have long recognized the value of preserving
their cultural resources. Since the 1970s, Pima County has taken
an active position in protecting our cultural and historical sites
through preservation policies, regional conservation, land-use planning,
ordinances, and recently with historic preservation bonds. All of
these efforts have received considerable public support.
Humans have continuously occupied Pima County for the past 12,000
years, from the end of the last Ice Age to the present day. While
only 12 percent of the land base has been formally investigated,
today there are more than 8,595 recorded archaeological and historical
properties in Pima County. These properties include more than 4,075
historic buildings and other structures and more than 4,520 prehistoric
and historic archaeological sites. Most common among the prehistoric
sites are those dating to the period from A.D. 750 to1450 during
which the Hohokam people occupied central and southern Arizona. Most
of Pima County’s recorded historic buildings are within the
Tucson city limits. In general, these represent settlement during
the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Tucson emerged
from its origins as a fortified village and grew to be a major metropolitan
center.
Historic Summary of Pima
County (PDF)
Raúl M. Grijalva - Canoa Ranch Conservation Park
The final master plan for Raul M. Grijalva - Canoa Ranch Conservation
Park was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on May 1, 2007. Developed
over the course of a year by Poster-Frost Associates, the Canoa
Ranch Community Trust and Oversight Committee, staff, and with
considerable public input, this plan is the result of a comprehensive
and collaborative planning project that identifies ways to best
protect, interpret, and enhance the cultural and natural resources
of the 4800 acre historic Canoa Ranch, originally the 1820 Spanish
and Mexican era land grant known as "San Ignacio de la Canoa."
Canoa
Ranch Background Report (PDF)
High Resolution - 117MB
Low
Resolution - 13MB
Canoa
Ranch Master Plan - complete 107MB (PDF)
Resources 54MB
Interpretive
75MB
Economic
1MB
The
Santa Cruz Valley is a unique and diverse watershed in the southwestern
United States, encompassing a mosaic of cultures and history. The
concept of a Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area has been
created by a partnership of local interests that have a stake in
the future of the region.
Visit
their web site below:
http://www.santacruzheritage.org/index.html
CULTURAL RESOURCES & HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE
PIMA COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS CENTER
201 N. STONE AVENUE, 6TH FL.
TUCSON, ARIZONA 85701-1207
PHONE: (520) 740-6451
FAX: (520) 243-1610
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