Mariposa County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport3Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge9manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building8a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Civil2a 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).
Dam14water 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).
Locale139place 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).
Mine90place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park18place 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?
Pillar43vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place63(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office9(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir8artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
Tower7a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail22route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel1linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar1natural 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).
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).
Bench2area 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).
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).
Cape5projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff36very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls69perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat75relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap14low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island1area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake64natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other2category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range19chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge40elevation 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).
Spring15place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream216linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit224prominent 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?
Valley112linear 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).
Woods4small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see "forest").
Latest News for Mariposa County California    
last updated: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:34:09 GMT

 Government roundup: Supervisor seeks dog bite policy review (The Bakersfield Californian)
A county supervisor has asked staff to review county policies regarding dog bites, saying in a letter "I have a growing concern that our policies are not strong enough." The referral follows stories by The Californian detailing vicious dog attacks and asking whether Kern County and city of Bakersfield animal laws are protective enough.
 RECENT HOME SALES (Palo Alto Weekly)
by PaloAltoOnline.com
 Fish report, November 13 (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
Trout: The urban trout season is really rolling now. With Corona wide open, Santa Ana River Lakes starting to churn, Hesperia Lake is good, and Irvine Lake really hot. All four are getting weekly plants now and the action will just get better as the season progresses.


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