El Dorado County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport12Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge7manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building26a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Crossing2a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam62water 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).
Hospital2building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary).
Locale271place 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).
Mine116place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park50place 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?
Pillar7vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place241(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.
Reserve2a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir60artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School5building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower13a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail27route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Bar16natural 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).
Bay14shoreline 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 6the 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).
Cape10projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff3very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls5perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat68relative 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).
Gap18low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island4area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake151natural 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).
Rapids1fast flowing section of a stream, often shallow and with exposed rock or boulders (riffle, ripple).
Ridge37elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring35place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream290linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit140prominent 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).
Valley150linear 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 El Dorado County California    
last updated: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:06:07 GMT

 Mono jail reopens after flooding (The Record-Courier)
Mono jail reopens after flooding Staff Reports The Mono County Jail, located in Bridgeport, reopened on Monday. According to the Mono County Sheriff's Office, all inmates who have been housed in El Dorado County Jail for the past several weeks have been moved back to the jail in Bridgeport. Inmates were evacuated from the jail on Oct. 13 after a storm with heavy rain struck while work was being ...
 Manteca ground zero in moth fight (The Manteca Bulletin)
A small paper clip dwarfs it but don’t let the light brown apple moth fool you. It has the potential to devastate a large chunk of San Joaquin County’s $2.1 billion annual agricultural production, cost thousands of area jobs, and lay waste to ornamental plants in Manteca neighborhoods. The first Central Valley confirmation of reproducing light brown apple moths has occurred in Manteca. It is ...
 Police (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)
• Kalsy Anna Williams, 21, of 2124 S. Riverside Drive in Iowa City was arrested for a controlled substance violation and an Iowa drug tax stamp violation at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 at 2124 S. Riverside Drive in Iowa City.


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