Imperial County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport14Manmade 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).
Building1a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Church2building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Crossing2a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam9water 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).
Levee1natural or manmade embankment flanking a stream (bank, berm).
Locale35place 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).
Mine27place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park79place 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 place96(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office12(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reserve3a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir6artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School10building 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.
Trail2route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Well20manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Basin3relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Beach 3the 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).
Cliff2very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls2perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat3relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap3low 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).
Island2area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake28natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Plain1a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland).
Other3category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range14chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge1elevation 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).
Stream130linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit50prominent 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?
Valley25linear 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 Imperial County California    
last updated: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:52:17 GMT

 U.S. probing leads in Mexicali border tunnel (San Diego Union-Tribune)
U.S. authorities said yesterday they are pursuing leads in Imperial County after the discovery last week of an unfinished tunnel across the border in Mexicali.
 County Gets Grants To Enforce Seat Belt Laws (KGTV San Diego)
San Diego Police and the California Highway Patrol will receive their share of over $3 million in safety grants to enforce seat belt laws, officials said Monday.
 Sonoma Supervisor Kelley set to lead statewide water group (North Bay Business Journal)
NORTH BAY – North Sonoma County Supervisor Paul Kelley will become president of the Association of California Water Agencies in December, putting him at the helm of one of the key agencies shaping statewide water policy.


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