Calaveras County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport3Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building16a 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).
Crossing9a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam41water 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).
Locale90place 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).
Mine230place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park23place 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 place163(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office13(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).
Reservoir35artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School9building 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.
Trail3route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel1linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar8natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin5relatively 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).
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).
Cape1projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff2very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Flat28relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap2low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Lake3natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other1category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Ridge13elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring13place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream147linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit69prominent 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?
Valley112linear 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").
Latest News for Calaveras County California    
last updated: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:18:21 GMT

 County leaders: Fish-stocking pullback stinks (The Union Democrat)
A proposal to eliminate the stocking of non-native fish in several waterways and one reservoir in Tuolumne County to protect endangered amphibians has the county Board of Supervisors riled. The proposal is the result of environmental groups bringing a lawsuit in 2006 over the California Fish and Game’s fish-stocking program. The groups — Pacific Rivers Council and Center for Biological Diversity ...
 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.
 Downum Seeking C.S.A. Waiver (MyMotherLode.com)
San Andreas, CA -- Calaveras County Sheriff Dennis Downum will be in southern California tomorrow seeking a waiver from the Corrections Standards Authority in an effort to reduce expenditures once the new jail is open and prisoners have been accepted.


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