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Salt River (Arizona)

Index Salt River (Arizona)

The Salt River (O'odham Pima: Onk Akimel, Yavapai: ʼHakanyacha or Hakathi) is a stream in the U.S. state of Arizona. [1]

79 relations: Alfalfa, American bullfrog, Apache Lake (Arizona), Arizona, Arizona Canal, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Arroyo (creek), Black crappie, Black River (Arizona), Blue catfish, Canyon Creek (Salt River tributary), Canyon Lake (Arizona), Carp, Centrarchidae, Channel catfish, Cherry Creek (Arizona), Cotton, Crappie, Desert sucker, Drainage basin, Fecal coliform, Flathead catfish, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Fountain Hills, Arizona, Four Peaks, Geographic Names Information System, Gila and Salt River meridian, Gila County, Arizona, Gila River, Google Earth, Google Maps, Granite Reef Diversion Dam, Hohokam, Horse Mesa Dam, Largemouth bass, List of rivers of Arizona, List of tributaries of the Colorado River, Mazatzal Mountains, Mesa, Arizona, Mogollon Rim, Mormon Flat Dam, Native Americans in the United States, North American beaver, North American Monsoon, O'odham language, Perennial stream, Phoenix metropolitan area, Phoenix, Arizona, Rainbow trout, Rangeland management, ..., Saguaro Lake, Salt River Canyon Wilderness, Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community, Salt River Project, San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, Scottsdale, Arizona, Sierra Ancha, Smallmouth bass, South Mountain Park, Stewart Mountain Dam, Sturgeon, Superstition Mountains, Tempe Town Lake, Tempe, Arizona, Theodore Roosevelt Dam, Theodore Roosevelt Lake, Tilapia, Tonto National Forest, Turbidity, U.S. state, United States Bureau of Reclamation, United States Geological Survey, Verde River, Walleye, White Mountains (Arizona), White River (Arizona), Yavapai language, Yellow bass, Yellow perch. Expand index (29 more) »

Alfalfa

Alfalfa, Medicago sativa also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world.

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American bullfrog

The American bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus or Rana catesbeiana), often simply known as the bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is an amphibious frog, a member of the family Ranidae, or “true frogs”.

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Apache Lake (Arizona)

Apache Lake is one of four reservoirs built along the Salt River in central Arizona as part of the Salt River Project.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Arizona Canal

The Arizona Canal is a major canal in central Maricopa County that led to the founding of several communities, now among the wealthier neighborhoods of suburban Phoenix, in the late 1880s.

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Arizona Game and Fish Department

The Arizona Game and Fish Department is a state agency of Arizona, headquartered in Phoenix.

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Arroyo (creek)

An arroyo ("brook"), also called a wash, is a dry creek, stream bed or gulch that temporarily or seasonally fills and flows after sufficient rain.

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Black crappie

The black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) is a freshwater fish found in North America, one of the two crappies.

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Black River (Arizona)

The Black River is a river in the White Mountains of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Blue catfish

The blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) is the largest species of North American catfish, reaching a length of and a weight of.

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Canyon Creek (Salt River tributary)

Canyon Creek is a tributary of the Salt River in central Arizona.

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Canyon Lake (Arizona)

Canyon Lake is one of four reservoirs that were formed by the damming of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Carp

Carp are various species of oily freshwater fish from the family Cyprinidae, a very large group of fish native to Europe and Asia.

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Centrarchidae

Centrarchidae (better known as sunfish) are a family of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the order Perciformes.

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Channel catfish

The channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) is North America's most numerous catfish species.

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Cherry Creek (Arizona)

Cherry Creek is a tributary of the Salt River in central Arizona.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Crappie

Crappies are a genus, Pomoxis, of North American fresh water fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae.

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Desert sucker

The desert sucker or Gila Mountain sucker (Catostomus clarki), is a freshwater species of ray-finned fish in the sucker family, endemic to the Great Basin and the Colorado River Basin in the United States.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.

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Fecal coliform

A fecal coliform (British: faecal coliform) is a facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped, gram-negative, non-sporulating bacterium.

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Flathead catfish

The flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris), also called by several names including mudcat or shovelhead cat, is a large species of North American freshwater catfish.

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Fort Apache Indian Reservation

The Fort Apache Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation in Arizona, United States, encompassing parts of Navajo, Gila, and Apache counties.

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Fountain Hills, Arizona

Fountain Hills is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.

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Four Peaks

Four Peaks (Wi:khoba) is a prominent landmark on the eastern skyline of Phoenix.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Gila and Salt River meridian

The Gila and Salt River Meridian intersects the initial point on the south side of the Gila River, opposite the mouth of Salt River, at latitude 33° 22′ 37.82733″ north, longitude 112° 18′ 21.99931″ west from Greenwich based on NAD 83, and governs the surveys in the territory of Arizona.

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Gila County, Arizona

Gila County is a county in the central part of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Gila River

The Gila River (O'odham Pima: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States.

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Google Earth

Google Earth is a computer program that renders a 3D representation of Earth based on satellite imagery.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping service developed by Google.

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Granite Reef Diversion Dam

The Granite Reef Diversion Dam is a concrete diversion dam located Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona, on the Salt River.

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Hohokam

The Hohokam were an ancient Native American culture centered in the present US state of Arizona.

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Horse Mesa Dam

The Horse Mesa Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located in the Superstition Mountains, northeast of Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona.

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Largemouth bass

The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae (sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to North America.

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List of rivers of Arizona

List of rivers in Arizona (U.S. state), sorted by name.

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List of tributaries of the Colorado River

The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River, the San Juan River, the Green River, and the Gunnison River.

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Mazatzal Mountains

The Mazatzal Mountains (MAH-zaht-ZAL, locally Ma-tuh-ZEL) are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of Phoenix and the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Mesa, Arizona

Mesa is a city in Maricopa County, in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Mogollon Rim

The Mogollon Rim or) is a topographical and geological feature cutting across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately, starting in northern Yavapai County and running eastward, ending near the border with New Mexico. The Mogollon Rim is not to be confused with the Mogollon Mountains in New Mexico located somewhat east of the eastern end of the Rim. The official estimate of the eastern end is near Show Low, although some sources extend it farther east. See It forms the southern edge of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona.

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Mormon Flat Dam

The Mormon Flat Dam is a dam on the Salt River located Northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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North American beaver

The North American beaver (Castor canadensis) is one of two extant beaver species.

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North American Monsoon

The North American monsoon, variously known as the Southwest monsoon, the Mexican monsoon, the New Mexican monsoon, or the Arizona monsoon, is a pattern of pronounced increase in thunderstorms and rainfall over large areas of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, typically occurring between July and mid September.

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O'odham language

O'odham (pronounced) or Papago-Pima is a Uto-Aztecan language of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, where the Tohono O'odham (formerly called the Papago) and Akimel O'odham (traditionally called Pima) reside.

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Perennial stream

A perennial stream or perennial river is a stream or river (channel) that has continuous flow in parts of its stream bed all year round during years of normal rainfall.

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Phoenix metropolitan area

The Phoenix Metropolitan Area – often referred to as the Valley of the Sun, the Salt River Valley or Metro Phoenix – is a metropolitan area, centered on the city of Phoenix, that includes much of the central part of the U.S. State of Arizona.

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Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Rainbow trout

The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) is a trout and species of salmonid native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific Ocean in Asia and North America.

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Rangeland management

Rangeland management (also range management, range science, or arid-land management) is a professional natural science that centers around the study of rangelands and the "conservation and sustainable management for the benefit of current societies and future generations." Range management is defined by Holechek et al.

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Saguaro Lake

Saguaro Lake is the fourth reservoir on the Salt River formed by the Stewart Mountain Dam in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Salt River Canyon Wilderness

Salt River Canyon Wilderness is a 32,101-acre (12,991 ha) wilderness area located within the Tonto National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community

The Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community comprises two distinct Native American tribes—the Pima (Akimel O'odham) and the Maricopa (Piipaash)—many of whom were originally of the Halchidhoma (Xalchidom) tribe.

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Salt River Project

The Salt River Project (SRP) is the umbrella name for two separate entities: the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District, an agency of the state of Arizona that serves as an electrical utility for the Phoenix metropolitan area, and the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association, a utility cooperative that serves as the primary water provider for much of central Arizona.

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San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation

The San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, in southeastern Arizona, United States, was established in 1872 as a reservation for the Chiricahua Apache tribe as well as surrounding Yavapai and Apache bands forcibly removed from their original homelands under a strategy devised by General Crook of using an Apache to catch an Apache.

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Scottsdale, Arizona

Scottsdale (Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ; Eskatel) is a city in the eastern part of Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, part of the Greater Phoenix Area.

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Sierra Ancha

The Sierra Ancha (“broad range” in Spanish) is a mountain range in Gila County, in central Arizona.

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Smallmouth bass

The smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieu) is a species of freshwater fish in the sunfish family (Centrarchidae) of the order Perciformes.

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South Mountain Park

South Mountain Park in Phoenix, Arizona is the largest municipal park in the United States, and one of the largest urban parks in North America and in the world.

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Stewart Mountain Dam

The Stewart Mountain Dam is a concrete thin arch dam located 41 miles northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Sturgeon

Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae.

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Superstition Mountains

The Superstition Mountains (Wi:kchsawa), popularly called "The Superstitions," is a range of mountains in Arizona located to the east of the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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Tempe Town Lake

Tempe Town Lake is a reservoir that occupies a portion of the dry riverbed of the Salt River as it passes through the city of Tempe, Arizona just north of Tempe Butte.

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Tempe, Arizona

Tempe (Oidbaḍ in Pima), also known as Hayden's Ferry during the territorial times of Arizona, is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, with the Census Bureau reporting a 2017 population of 185,038.

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Theodore Roosevelt Dam

Theodore Roosevelt Dam is a dam on the Salt River located northeast of Phoenix, Arizona.

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Theodore Roosevelt Lake

Theodore Roosevelt Lake (usually called Roosevelt Lake, sometimes Lake Roosevelt) is a large reservoir formed by Theodore Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona as part of the Salt River Project (SRP).

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Tilapia

Tilapia is the common name for nearly a hundred species of cichlid fish from the tilapiine cichlid tribe.

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Tonto National Forest

The Tonto National Forest, encompassing, is the largest of the six national forests in Arizona and is the fifth largest national forest in the United States.

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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United States Bureau of Reclamation

The United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), and formerly the United States Reclamation Service (not to be confused with the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement), is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Verde River

The Verde River (Yavapai: Haka'he:la) is a major tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Walleye

Walleye (Sander vitreus, synonym Stizostedion vitreum) is a freshwater perciform fish native to most of Canada and to the Northern United States.

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White Mountains (Arizona)

The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico.

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White River (Arizona)

The White River is a tributary of the Salt River in the U.S. state of Arizona.

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Yavapai language

Yavapai is an Upland Yuman language, spoken by Yavapai people in central and western Arizona.

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Yellow bass

Morone mississippiensis, commonly known as the yellow bass, is a member of the family Moronidae.

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Yellow perch

The yellow perch (Perca flavescens), commonly referred to as perch, is a freshwater perciform fish native to much of North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_River_(Arizona)

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