Monterey County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport14Manmade facility maintained for the use of aircraft (airfield, airstrip, landing field, landing strip).
Bridge2manmade structure carrying a trail, road, or other transportation system across a body of water or depression (causeway, overpass, trestle).
Building56a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Canal1manmade waterway used by watercraft or for drainage, irrigation, mining, or water power (ditch, lateral).
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).
Church7building used for religious worship (chapel, mosque, synagogue, tabernacle, temple).
Civil72a 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).
Dam18water 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).
Harbor2sheltered area of water where ships or other watercraft can anchor or dock (hono, port, roads, roadstead).
Locale274place 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).
Military3place or facility formerly used for various aspects of or relating to military activity.
Mine12place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Oilfield1area where petroleum is or was removed from the Earth.
Park127place 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 place110(populated place) place or area with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population (city, settlement, town, village).
Post office16(post office) an official facility of the U.S. Postal Service used for processing and distributing mail and other postal material.
Reservoir7artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School45building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower45a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail68route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Well3manmade shaft or hole in the Earth's surface used to obtain fluid or gaseous materials.
Bar8natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin12relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay20shoreline 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 18the 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).
Cape38projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff1very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Falls3perpendicular or very steep fall of water in the course of a stream (cascade, cataract, waterfall).
Flat23relative 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).
Gut4relatively small coastal waterway connecting larger bodies of water or other waterways (creek, inlet, slough).
Island24area of dry or relatively dry land surrounded by water or low wetland (archipelago, atoll, cay, hammock, hummock, isla, isle, key, moku, rock).
Lake17natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Range4chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge53elevation with a narrow, elongated crest which can be part of a hill or mountain (crest, cuesta, escarpment, hogback, lae, rim, spur).
Sea1large body of salt water (gulf, ocean).
Spring53place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream206linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit122prominent 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?
Swamp1poorly drained wetland, fresh or saltwater, wooded or grassy, possibly covered with open water (bog, cienega, marais, marsh, pocosin).
Valley282linear 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).
Woods6small 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 Monterey County California    
last updated: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:22:55 GMT

 C.S.A.C. Conference Opens In Monterey Today (MyMotherLode.com)
Monterey, CA -- The 115th C.S.A.C. (California State Association of Counties) annual conference is opening this morning at the Convention Center. According to Tuolumne CAO Craig Pedro it will be an extremely full conference this year.
 Nuestra Familia case: Monterey County's connection (The Monterey County Herald)
For several years, gang investigators noticed that Salinas-area members and associates of the Nuestra Familia gang were relocating to California's Central Valley.
 Deer-car crashes up 22 percent in California (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
SANTA CRUZ -- Deer-vehicle collisions are on the upswing in California, with a 22 percent increase over the past five years, compared to 9 percent in Oregon, according to a review of claims by State Farm Insurance.


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