Mono County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport4Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Building57a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Dam19water 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).
Locale181place 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).
Mine66place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park9place 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?
Pillar2vertical, standing, often spire shaped, natural rock formation (chimney, monument, pinnacle, pohaku, rock tower).
Pop place40(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office4(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir15artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School1building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Trail4route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel3linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Well3manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Basin15relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
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).
Cape1projection 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).
Crater3circular shaped depression at the summit of a volcanic cone or one on the surface of the land caused by the impact of a meteorite; a manmade depression caused by an explosion (caldera, lua).
Falls7perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat79relative level area within a region of greater relief (clearing, glade, playa).
Gap17low point or opening between hills or mountains or in a ridge or mountain range (col, notch, pass, saddle, water gap, wind gap).
Glacier1body or stream of ice moving outward and downslope from an area of accumulation; an area of relatively permanent snow or ice on the top or side of a mountain or mountainous area (icefield, ice patch, snow patch).
Island2area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake172natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Plain1a region of general uniform slope, comparatively level and of considerable extent (grassland, highland, kula, plateau, upland).
Range6chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Rapids1fast flowing section of a stream, often shallow and with exposed rock or boulders (riffle, ripple).
Ridge20elevation 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).
Spring51place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream158linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit134prominent 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?
Valley111linear 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).
Latest News for Mono County California    
last updated: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:26:43 GMT

 Chief: Medical marijuana business doesn’t fit Mammoth Lakes lifestyle (The Mammoth Times)
Police Chief Randy Schienle hopes to persuade town council to enact a moratorium on medical marijuana dispensaries in Mammoth Lakes until town government can figure out how they will be regulated – or if they should even be licensed here.
 October Sales of California’s Small Businesses Show Improvement (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Sales of small and mid-sized businesses in California showed improvement in October, demonstrating turnaround of key factors that impact the market, and corresponding to growth in other economic indicators. This impacts business buyers, business owners/sellers, business brokers and other professionals serving this market.
 Filling Supervisor Reid’s seat won’t be easy or quick (The Mammoth Times)
It’s going to be hard to fill Bill Reid’s shoes. That was the sentiment echoed repeatedly by the Mono County Supervisors when they met formally for the first time without Reid.


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