Merced County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport16Manmade 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).
Building3a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Church1building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil3a political division formed for administrative purposes (borough, county, municipio, parish, town, township).
Crossing2a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam20water 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).
Locale63place 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).
Park49place 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?
Pop place63(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office11(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir14artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School34building 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.
Well3manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Bay4shoreline 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 2the 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).
Cape2projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Flat4relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap3low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Gut21relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island5area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake12natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Ridge3elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Spring21place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream57linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit18prominent 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?
Valley18linear 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).
Woods1small area covered with a dense growth of trees; does not include an area of trees under the administration of a political agency (see "forest").
Yahoo! News Search Results for Merced County California    
last updated: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:09:07 GMT

 Merced County rallies doctors in whooping cough fight
Because of the severity of the whooping cough epidemic in California, the state now recommends that anyone over the age of 7 be immunized for the disease.Whooping cough, or pertussis, can be fatal in infants under six months, and in the past seven months, six infants have died in the state, and more than 1,500 cases have been confirmed. There have been 44 confirmed cases in Merced County.
 California Fights Outbreak of Whooping Cough
Because of the severity of the whooping cough epidemic in California, the state now recommends that anyone over the age of 7 be immunized for the disease.
 UC Merced Connect: Officer makes mark on campus
George Gongora 's path to becoming an officer in the UC Merced Police


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