Los Angeles County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport38Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge6manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building45a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Channel8linear deep part of a body of water through which the main volume of water flows and is frequently used as aroute for watercraft (passage, reach, strait, thoroughfare, throughfare).
Church29building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil111a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Dam130water 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).
Harbor34sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Hospital11building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary).
Locale756place 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.
Mine36place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Oilfield13area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth.
Park1062place 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?
Pillar3vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place677(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office127(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir103artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School49building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower101a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail57route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel8linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Well1manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Bar8natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin30relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay54shoreline 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 42the 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).
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).
Cape64projection 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).
Falls2perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat52relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Forest5bounded area of woods, forest, or grassland under the administration of a political agency (see "woods") (national forest, national grasslands, State forest).
Gap43low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island41area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Isthmus1narrow section of land in a body of water connecting two larger land areas.
Lake33natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Plain60a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland).
Other9category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range40chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge31elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring68place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream189linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit193prominent 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?
Swamp2poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley750linear 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).
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