Lassen County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport8Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building1a 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).
Dam51water 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).
Locale167place 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).
Military3place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity.
Mine7place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park11place 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?
Pillar2vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place72(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office5(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir145artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
Tower4a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail4route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Well18manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Basin10relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay2shoreline 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 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).
Bench1area of relatively level land on the flank of an elevation such as a hill, ridge, or mountain where the slope of the land rises on one side and descends on the opposite side (level).
Cape13projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff4very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls1perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat80relative 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).
Gap10low 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).
Lake106natural 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).
Other2category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range11chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge8elevation 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).
Spring238place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream123linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit155prominent 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?
Swamp8poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley128linear 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 Lassen County California    
last updated: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:52:49 GMT

 One Lassen County fire still out of control
Relatively mild late July weather and an end to the thunderstorms that bombarded far northeastern California earlier this week allowed firefighters to continue advancing on the nearly 200 lightning-sparked wildfires burning across the area since Saturday evening.
 Red flag warning for northeastern California and northern Washoe County
A red flag fire warning is in effect through 11 a.m. today in California's northeastern Lassen County, eastern Modoc County and Nevada's sorthern Washoe County.
 Update: County fire activity
July 27, 2010 CONSTANTIA FIRE The largest fire currently burning in Lassen County is the Constantia Complex, located in the Constantia community near Doyle. The fire has been held at 1,700 acres since Monday, July 26, and is currently at 50 percent containment.


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