Alameda County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport6Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge2manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building33a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Church5building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil29a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Dam29water barrier or embankment built across the course of a stream or into a body of water to control and (or) impound the flow of water (breakwater, dike, jetty).
Harbor14sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Hospital3building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary).
Locale172place at which there is or was human activity; it does not include populated places, mines, and dams (battlefield, crossroad, camp, farm, ghost town, landing, railroad siding, ranch, ruins, site, station, windmill).
Military4place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity.
Mine1place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park295place or area set aside for recreation or preservation of a cultural or natural resource and under some form of government administration; not including National or State forests or Reserves (national historical landmark, national park, State park, wilde?
Pop place166(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office60(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir28artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School12building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower23a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Tunnel8linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Well2manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Bar1natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Bay22shoreline or indentation of a coastline enclosing a part of a body of water; a body of water partly surrounded by land (arm, bight, cove, estuary, gulf, inlet, sound).
Beach 1the sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel (coast, shore, strand).
Bend1curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander).
Cape16projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Falls1perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat5relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap9low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Gut7relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island4area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake9natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other3category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range6chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge19elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring6place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream156linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit31prominent elevation rising above the surrounding level of the Earth's surface; does not include pillars, ridges, or ranges (ahu, berg, bald, butte, cerro, colina, cone, cumbre, dome, head, hill, horn, knob, knoll, mauna, mesa, mesita, mound, mount, mount?
Swamp1poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley72linear depression in the Earth's surface that generally slopes from one end to the other (barranca, canyon, chasm, cove, draw, glen, gorge, gulch, gulf, hollow, ravine).
Woods1small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see "forest").
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