Amador County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport7Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building24a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Church8building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil1a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Crossing3a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam23water 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).
Locale58place 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).
Mine43place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park15place 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?
Pillar1vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place71(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office10(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reserve1a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir24artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School6building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower1a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail2route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel4linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar1natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin1relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay2shoreline 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).
Cape1projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff1very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Flat12relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Forest1bounded area of woods, forest, or grassland under the administration of a political agency (see "woods") (national forest, national grasslands, State forest).
Gap2low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island1area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake15natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Ridge8elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring5place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream87linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit25prominent 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?
Valley40linear 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).
Latest News for Amador County California    
last updated: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:18:37 GMT

 Obituary: William J. Jefferds worked to save state's military bases (The Sacramento Bee)
William J. Jefferds, a retired Army major general who was appointed by California governors to help save the state's military bases from closure, has died at age 80.
 Northington to run for county schools superintendent position (Calaveras Enterprise)
Kathy Northington has announced her candidacy for the position of Calaveras County superintendent of schools in the June 2010 primary election. John Brophy, who has served in the position since 1997, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of his term and will not seek re-election.
 Sutter Gold Provides Technical Update (Marketwire)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Nov. 19, 2009) - Sutter Gold Mining Inc. ("Sutter" or "SGM" or the "Company")(TSX VENTURE:SGM) is pleased to update its shareholders and other interested individuals on the status of short term permitting initiatives at the Lincoln Project. Technical Studies and Initiatives in Progress: The Company submitted a Wetlands Delineation Report prepared by ...


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