Mendocino County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport10Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building7a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Channel1linear 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).
Church1building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
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).
Dam21water 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).
Harbor1sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Locale357place 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).
Mine1place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park45place 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 place156(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office8(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reserve2a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir10artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School12building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower13a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail16route 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.
Bar8natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin22relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay17shoreline 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 8the 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).
Bend4curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander).
Cape27projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff9very 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).
Flat87relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap26low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island35area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake34natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Range1chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge132elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Slope4a gently inclined part of the Earth's surface (grade, pitch).
Spring50place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream650linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit167prominent 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).
Valley229linear 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).
Woods5small 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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