Kings County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport14Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building3a 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).
Civil1a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Crossing2a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam15water 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).
Levee8natural or manmade embankment flanking a stream (bank, berm).
Locale40place 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).
Mine3place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park20place 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?
Pop place49(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office7(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
School14building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower19a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Basin8relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Flat8relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap6low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Gut9relatively 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).
Plain2a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland).
Other7category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range5chain 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).
Slope1a gently inclined part of the Earth's surface (grade, pitch).
Spring8place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream82linear 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).
Yahoo! News Search Results for Kings County California    
last updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:52:24 GMT

 Tulare-Kings Builders Exchange battling construction theft
VISALIA - The Tulare and Kings Counties Builders Exchange is ona mission this summer to stop construction theft.
 Police look at Wright's death as a homicide
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 Lemoore police plan DUI checkpoint late Friday night
The Lemoore Police Department will put on the second of threeplanned DUI/driver's license checkpoints Friday night and Saturdaymorning at an undisclosed area within the city limits. Thecheckpoint will run from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.


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