Alpine County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport2Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge1manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building2a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Crossing1a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam27water 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).
Locale81place 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).
Mine25place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park8place 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?
Pillar3vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place30(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office1(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir18artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
Trail11route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Basin17relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Cliff1very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls2perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat47relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap10low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Lake71natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Range4chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge3elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring10place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream99linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit86prominent 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?
Valley84linear 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).
Yahoo! News Search Results for Alpine County California    
last updated: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:27:17 GMT

 County Commission roundup
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 The view from East Peak
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 County Commission approves several agreements
The Washoe County Commission approved a number of agreements Tuesday.


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