Contra Costa County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport4Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge4manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building12a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Channel15linear deep part of a body of water through which the main volume of water flows and is frequently used as aroute for watercraft (passage, reach, strait, thoroughfare, throughfare).
Church3building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil26a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Dam28water 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).
Harbor7sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Hospital1building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary).
Locale63place 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).
Mine2place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Oilfield3area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth.
Park193place 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 place147(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office29(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).
Tower11a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail1route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel2linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar6natural 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).
Bay35shoreline 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 2the 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).
Bench1area of relatively level land on the flank of an elevation such as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises on one side and descends on the opposite side (level).
Cape45projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Flat3relative 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).
Gut14relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island23area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake4natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other2category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range9chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge26elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring12place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream100linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit43prominent 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?
Swamp5poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley69linear 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).
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last updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:53:55 GMT

 Contra Costa Cities Put Measures To Increase Sales Tax On Ballot
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. -- The Concord and Antioch city councils each unanimously passed resolutions Tuesday night to place proposals on the November ballot that would increase sales taxes by .5 percent as a way to close their budget deficits.
 Contra Costa declines to fold tobacco-tax commission into county government
Board of Supervisors approves official response to Contra Costa grand jury probe into First 5 Commission.
 Developer pushes for elimination of affordable housing requirements
Contra Costa County has eliminated, lowered fees to provide housing for families with moderate and low incomes.


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