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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>New Mexico has no such hang-ups--Tetilla Peak is
still Tetilla Peak</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=azcachemeister@getnet.com
href="mailto:azcachemeister@getnet.com">AZcachemeister</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=listserv@azgeocaching.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:54
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Az-Geocaching] Anyone using
Garmin Topo 2008?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I think we should go back to what the old miners used to call
it, before people got upset and said it had to be changed to Squaw
<U>Peak</U>! <wink><BR><BR>ShadowAce wrote:
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cite=mid:29fc9f950708300832x40a48b0ei9e01ec62fcb33749@mail.gmail.com
type="cite">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?<BR><BR> 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.. <BR><BR>Ah heck, here is
the June 2007 report on Name submissions that covers all
this...<BR><BR> Officially it is Squaw Peak. So Garmin will name it as
such ..<BR><BR><A
href="http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/dockets/ReviewList395.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://geonames.usgs.gov/docs/dockets/ReviewList395.pdf</A>
<BR><FONT size=1><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Swilling Peak: summit;
elevation 795 m (2,608 ft); in the City of Phoenix, within Phoenix Mountains
Park</SPAN> <BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">and Recreation Area; named for John "Jack"
Swilling (1830-1878), one of the original founders of the city of</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Phoenix;
Maricopa County, Arizona; Sec 2, T2N, R3E, Gila and Salt River Mer.;
33°32'50"N, 112°01'15"W;</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">USGS map - Sunnyslope 1:24,000; Not: Piestewa
Peak, Squaw Peak. </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><A
href="http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.54726&lon=-"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=33.54726&lon=-</A></SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">112.0207&datum=nad83&u=5&layer=DRG&size=l&s=50</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Proposal: to eliminate a name considered by some
to be derogatory </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Map: USGS
Sunnyslope 1:24,000</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Proponent: Al
Bates; Prescott, AZ</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Administrative
area: Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Area</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Previous BGN Action: None</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Names associated with feature: </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">GNIS: Squaw Peak (FID 11741)</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Local Usage: Piestewa Peak (local residents;
Arizona Board on Geographic and Historic Names;</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">City of Phoenix;
Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Department), Squaw Peak (local
</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">residents)</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Published: Piestewa Peak (City of Phoenix;
Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Department;
local hiking guides; IndianCountry.com; Navajo Times, 2007), Squaw Peak
(USGS</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">1954, 1978, 1988)</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Case Summary: The new name Swilling Peak is
proposed as a replacement name for Squaw Peak, a</SPAN> <BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">prominent summit
within the City of Phoenix. With an elevation of 795 m (2,608 ft), the
summit is the</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">second highest point in the Phoenix Mountains and
it has been designated a Phoenix Point of Pride. The</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">current name has
appeared on Federal maps since at least at least the 1950's, but is
considered by many to be </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">derogatory. There have been several previous
efforts to change the summit's name, but none were successful.</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">In April 2003,
the Arizona Board on Geographic and Historic Names considered and approved a
request by</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">the Governor of Arizona to rename it to Piestewa
Peak, in honor of Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a resident of Arizona </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">and a member of
the Hopi Nation, who had died one month earlier during the conflict in Iraq.
In researching</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">this proposal, the AZBGHN determined that the
change to Piestewa Peak had the support of the Inter-Tribal</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Council of
Arizona. However, the BGN was not permitted to consider the request at the
Federal level, citing </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">the restrictions of the Commemorative Naming
Policy that does not allow a commemorative name for a</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">natural feature
until the intended honoree has been deceased at least five years. The
proposal is being held</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">until March 2008, the five-year anniversary of
Ms. Piestewa's death. </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Although the
AZBGHN's renaming of Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak has the support of many
area residents</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">and the new name is now shown on many local and
State maps and products, there are a large number of</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">other residents
of Phoenix who do not endorse it, either because they do not believe the
longstanding name </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Squaw Peak is derogatory, or because they object
to the way in which the 2003 proposal was handled by the</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">State.</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Citing these objections, this new proposal, to
rename the summit to Swilling Peak, was submitted by a local</SPAN> <BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">historian. An
online account of Swilling's life, authored by the proponent, provides the
following: "Born in</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">North Carolina, he moved to the New Mexico and
Arizona Territories around the 1850's, pursuing</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">prospecting and
mining for newly discovered gold. By 1860, with the onset of the Civil War,
he joined the </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Arizona Guards. Rather than report for
disciplinary action, he and several others deserted from the CSA.
He</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">arrived in Phoenix from Prescott, Arizona, with
friend and colleague Darrell Duppa in 1867. In his travels as</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">a rider and
scout for the Union, he had been fascinated with the ancient Hohokam ruins
and artifacts, </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">especially the extensive network of canals the
ancient Indians had dug to irrigate their fields. His concept was</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">that the old
canals could be re-built for modern farmers, and that the soil of the valley
could support highly</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">productive farms. Within a very short time, the
Swilling and Duppa team had water flowing in a canal. By </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">January 1, 1868,
Swilling's home area, where up to fifty more pioneer homes had been built by
this time, was</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">known as Pumpkinville - so named for the
impressive growth of pumpkins Jack had earlier planted along the</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">canals. Darrell
Duppa suggested the name Phoenix--for much like the mythical Phoenix rising
from its ashes, </SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">a new civilization would soon rise from the ashes
of an old. Swilling died in jail of natural causes while</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">awaiting trial
for a stagecoach robbery he did not commit."</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">There are two other geographic features in
Arizona already named for John Swilling. Swilling Butte in </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Coconino County
was the subject of a 1932 BGN decision, while Swilling Gulch in Yavapai
County was a</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">name found in local use and presumably so named
because of its proximity to Swilling's ranch. The two</SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">features are
located 299 km (186 mi) and 61 km (38 mi), respectively, from the summit in
question. </SPAN><BR
style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></FONT><BR><BR> Basically prepare to climb
Swilling Peak because it looks like that is what the name might
become.<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 8/30/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Guy
Aldrich</B> <<A href="mailto:graldrich@gmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">graldrich@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I'm
surprised Garmin is still calling it Squaw Peak.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><PRE wrap=""><HR width="90%" SIZE=4>
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