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").
Yahoo! News Search Results for El Dorado County California    
last updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:45:07 GMT

 El Dorado jury has case in killing of California Highway Patrol officer
Just shy of the third anniversary of the day California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Russell was killed, an El Dorado County jury began deliberating Wednesday on the guilt of the murder suspect.
 El Dorado Sheriff's Office hit by new harassment lawsuit
The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office is the target of a lawsuit the second in two months claiming that a "boy's club" in the department subjects women to harassment and discrimination.
 New Brush Fires Erupt In Rural Los Angeles County
New brush fires swept over more than 3 square miles and prompted evacuations in rural Los Angeles County hills Thursday, while good weather to the north helped firefighters building containment lines around two wildfires that destroyed homes in remote mountain communities earlier in the week.


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