Modoc County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport10Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge1manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building1a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Dam61water 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).
Locale134place 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).
Mine10place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park8place 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?
Pillar6vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place71(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office7(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reserve3a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir159artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
Tower4a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail12route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Well6manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Basin6relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Cape6projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff5very 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).
Flat66relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Forest1bounded area of woods, forest, or grassland under the administration of a political agency (see "woods") (national forest, national grasslands, State forest).
Gap4low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Island5area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake59natural 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.
Range3chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge22elevation 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).
Spring192place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream171linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit98prominent 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?
Swamp8poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley102linear 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 Modoc County California    
last updated: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:17:57 GMT

 Red flag warning for northeastern California and northern Washoe County
A red flag fire warning is in effect through 11 a.m. today in California's northeastern Lassen County, eastern Modoc County and Nevada's sorthern Washoe County.
 One Lassen County fire still out of control
Relatively mild late July weather and an end to the thunderstorms that bombarded far northeastern California earlier this week allowed firefighters to continue advancing on the nearly 200 lightning-sparked wildfires burning across the area since Saturday evening.
 New release date for convicted killer
STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) Prison officials have reset a convicted killer's parole date amid vocal opposition throughout Northern California. Loren Herzog had been set for parole last Sunday, prompting protest over his settling in San Joaquin County and complaints about the early release. Officials then found the court had incorrectly calculated his prison sentence, and prosecutors now say they've ...


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