[Az-Geocaching] Anyone using Garmin Topo 2008?

[Brian Casteel]

Thanks for the screenshots Dirk!    The terrain shading would make it well
worth the $30 by itself, rather than just looking at a flat 2D map.

 

Brian

Team A.I.

 

 

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Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Anyone using Garmin Topo 2008?

 

Not that it really matters I guess but it is still Squaw Peak according to
the USGS GNIS database as well. So that might explain why mapping software
still labels it as such?

 I believe it might have to do with the fact that it was never officially
renamed (on a federal level). The renaming was a local thing done in Arizona
but not fully supported or signed off on the federal level. After the local
naming was allowed by the Arizona Board of Geographic and Historic names,
the federal Board on Geographic names was not in agreement.. 

Ah heck, here is the June 2007 report on Name submissions that covers all
this...

 Officially it is Squaw Peak. So Garmin will name it as such ..

http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/dockets/ReviewList395.pdf 
Swilling Peak: summit; elevation 795 m (2,608 ft); in the City of Phoenix,
within Phoenix Mountains Park 
and Recreation Area; named for John "Jack" Swilling (1830-1878), one of the
original founders of the city of
Phoenix; Maricopa County, Arizona; Sec 2, T2N, R3E, Gila and Salt River
Mer.; 33°32'50"N, 112°01'15"W;
USGS map - Sunnyslope 1:24,000; Not: Piestewa Peak, Squaw Peak. 
http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.54726
<http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.54726&lon=-> &lon=-
112.0207&datum=nad83&u=5&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50

Proposal: to eliminate a name considered by some to be derogatory 

Map: USGS Sunnyslope 1:24,000

Proponent: Al Bates; Prescott, AZ

Administrative area: Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Area

Previous BGN Action: None

Names associated with feature: 

GNIS: Squaw Peak (FID 11741)

Local Usage: Piestewa Peak (local residents; Arizona Board on Geographic and
Historic Names;
City of Phoenix; Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Department), Squaw
Peak (local 
residents)

Published: Piestewa Peak (City of Phoenix; Phoenix Mountains Park and
Recreation 
Department; local hiking guides; IndianCountry.com; Navajo Times, 2007),
Squaw Peak (USGS
1954, 1978, 1988)

Case Summary: The new name Swilling Peak is proposed as a replacement name
for Squaw Peak, a 
prominent summit within the City of Phoenix. With an elevation of 795 m
(2,608 ft), the summit is the
second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains and it has been designated a
Phoenix Point of Pride. The
current name has appeared on Federal maps since at least at least the
1950's, but is considered by many to be 
derogatory. There have been several previous efforts to change the summit's
name, but none were successful.
In April 2003, the Arizona Board on Geographic and Historic Names considered
and approved a request by
the Governor of Arizona to rename it to Piestewa Peak, in honor of Pfc. Lori
Piestewa, a resident of Arizona 
and a member of the Hopi Nation, who had died one month earlier during the
conflict in Iraq. In researching
this proposal, the AZBGHN determined that the change to Piestewa Peak had
the support of the Inter-Tribal
Council of Arizona. However, the BGN was not permitted to consider the
request at the Federal level, citing 
the restrictions of the Commemorative Naming Policy that does not allow a
commemorative name for a
natural feature until the intended honoree has been deceased at least five
years. The proposal is being held
until March 2008, the five-year anniversary of Ms. Piestewa's death. 

Although the AZBGHN's renaming of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak has the
support of many area residents
and the new name is now shown on many local and State maps and products,
there are a large number of
other residents of Phoenix who do not endorse it, either because they do not
believe the longstanding name 
Squaw Peak is derogatory, or because they object to the way in which the
2003 proposal was handled by the
State.

Citing these objections, this new proposal, to rename the summit to Swilling
Peak, was submitted by a local 
historian. An online account of Swilling's life, authored by the proponent,
provides the following: "Born in
North Carolina, he moved to the New Mexico and Arizona Territories around
the 1850's, pursuing
prospecting and mining for newly discovered gold. By 1860, with the onset of
the Civil War, he joined the 
Arizona Guards. Rather than report for disciplinary action, he and several
others deserted from the CSA. He
arrived in Phoenix from Prescott, Arizona, with friend and colleague Darrell
Duppa in 1867. In his travels as
a rider and scout for the Union, he had been fascinated with the ancient
Hohokam ruins and artifacts, 
especially the extensive network of canals the ancient Indians had dug to
irrigate their fields. His concept was
that the old canals could be re-built for modern farmers, and that the soil
of the valley could support highly
productive farms. Within a very short time, the Swilling and Duppa team had
water flowing in a canal. By 
January 1, 1868, Swilling's home area, where up to fifty more pioneer homes
had been built by this time, was
known as Pumpkinville - so named for the impressive growth of pumpkins Jack
had earlier planted along the
canals. Darrell Duppa suggested the name Phoenix--for much like the mythical
Phoenix rising from its ashes, 
a new civilization would soon rise from the ashes of an old. Swilling died
in jail of natural causes while
awaiting trial for a stagecoach robbery he did not commit."

There are two other geographic features in Arizona already named for John
Swilling. Swilling Butte in 
Coconino County was the subject of a 1932 BGN decision, while Swilling Gulch
in Yavapai County was a
name found in local use and presumably so named because of its proximity to
Swilling's ranch. The two
features are located 299 km (186 mi) and 61 km (38 mi), respectively, from
the summit in question. 


 Basically prepare to climb Swilling  Peak because it looks like that is
what the name might become.



On 8/30/07, Guy Aldrich <graldrich at gmail.com> wrote:

I'm surprised Garmin is still calling it Squaw Peak.

 

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