Butte County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport8Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge5manmade 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.
Church1building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil13a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Crossing5a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam36water 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).
Locale110place 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).
Mine49place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park33place 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?
Pillar2vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place220(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office9(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir34artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School11building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower16a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail4route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel9linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar20natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin4relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bend2curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander).
Cape7projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff4very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls3perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat25relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap7low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Gut2relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island5area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake10natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Range2chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge41elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring18place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream240linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit82prominent 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).
Valley106linear 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 Butte County California    
last updated: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:18:29 GMT

 Butte County Tire Amnesty tires dump makes dent in backlog (Chico Enterprise-Record)
OROVILLE -- Saturday was Butte County Tire Amnesty Day. Held at the Highway 70 Industrial park from 8 a.
 Bottled water a bad fit for Glenn County, Orland citizens tell Crystal Geyser (Chico Enterprise-Record)
ORLAND — A proposal for a water bottling plant received a steady barrage of criticism Wednesday at a meeting of the Orland Technical Advisory Committee.
 5-year-old ejected in Hwy. 70 rollover (Chico Enterprise-Record)
OROVILLE — A five-year-old girl was flown to UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento Wednesday after being ejected from a car that rolled over on Highway 70.


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