Marin County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport5Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge3manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building11a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Channel4linear 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).
Church5building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil38a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Dam32water 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).
Harbor6sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Locale114place 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).
Military17place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity.
Mine2place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park159place 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?
Pillar5vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place138(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office27(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir20artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School20building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower11a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail130route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel2linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar13natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin2relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay59shoreline 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 40the 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).
Cape82projection 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).
Falls5perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat16relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap2low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island30area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake13natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other1category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Ridge30elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring9place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream109linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit71prominent 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?
Swamp7poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley60linear 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).
Woods7small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see "forest").
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