Kern County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport50Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building11a 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).
Civil13a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Crossing1a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam21water 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).
Locale431place 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).
Military2place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity.
Mine135place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Oilfield52area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth.
Park152place 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 place323(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office25(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir21artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School26building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Site3a generic place of particular notice
Tower58a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail6route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel5linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Well39manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Basin8relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay9shoreline 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).
Cape12projection 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).
Flat91relative 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).
Gap28low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Gut1relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island1area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake7natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Plain3a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland).
Other23category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range34chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge41elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Slope4a gently inclined part of the Earth's surface (grade, pitch).
Spring261place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream237linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit172prominent 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?
Swamp1poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley338linear 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 Kern County California    
last updated: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:18:36 GMT

 Kern Valley Sheriff's Substation Open House Oct. 24 (Kern Valley Sun)
The Kern County Sheriff’s Office, Kern Valley Substation will be holding an open house on Oct. 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.. We will have a variety of Sheriff’s Office resources on display such as SWAT, Sheriff’s Rescue Helicopter, Air 5, K-9, Search and Rescue, and others. We will be offering child ID and crime prevention tips.
 (AFX UK Focus) 2009-11-16 15:09 Calpine Calif. Pastoria natgas unit back (Interactive Investor)
NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - Calpine Corp's 724-megawatt Pastoria natural gas-fired power station in California returned to full service by Sunday afternoon, the California Independent System Operator said in a report. Calpine reduced the unit's output by about 500 MW for planned work by Nov. 13. The 724-MW Pastoria combined-cycle station is located in Lebec in Kern County about 30 miles south ...
 Anzaldo finishes in second place to pace Kern Valley (Kern Valley Sun)
Patti McGarveySpecial to the Sun Kern Valley’s boys cross country team traveled to Bishop to compete in the HDL Finals.


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