Nevada County, California. Places of Interest

Location Type# of PlacesLocation Definition
Airport5Manmade 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).
Building14a manmade structure with walls and a roof for protection of people and (or) materials, but not including church, hospital, or school.
Crossing7a place where two or more routes of transportation form a junction or intersection (overpass, underpass).
Dam45water 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).
Hospital1building where the sick or injured may receive medical or surgical attention (infirmary).
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).
Mine118place or area from which commercial minerals are or were removed from the Earth; not including oilfield (pit, quarry, shaft).
Park20place 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 place152(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.
Reserve1a tract of land set aside for a specific use (does not include forests, civil divisions, parks).
Reservoir55artificially impounded body of water (lake, tank).
School3building or group of buildings used as an institution for study, teaching, and learning (academy, college, high school, university).
Tower6a manmade structure, higher than its diameter, generally used for observation, storage, or electronic transmission.
Trail27route for passage from one point to another; does not include roads or highways (jeep trail, path, ski trail).
Tunnel4linear underground passageway open at both ends.
Bar5natural accumulation of gravel, sand or alluvium forming an underwater or exposed embankment (reef, ledge, sandbar, shoal, spit).
Basin6relatively low area or natural depression enclosed by higher land (cirque, pit, sink, amphitheater).
Bay1shoreline 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 1the 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).
Bend1curve in the course of a stream and (or) the land within the curve; a curve in a linear body of water (bottom, loop, meander).
Cape4projection of land extending into a body of water (lea, neck, peninsula, point).
Cliff8very steep or vertical slope (bluff, crag, head, headland, nose, palisades, precipice, promontory, rim, rimrock).
Flat37relative 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).
Lake53natural body of inland water (backwater, lac, lagoon, laguna, pond, pool, resaca, waterhole).
Other1category for miscellaneous named entities that cannot readily be placed in the other feature classes listed here.
Range1chain of hills or mountains; a somewhat linear, complex mountainous or hilly area (cordillera, sierra).
Ridge25elevation 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).
Spring32place where underground water flows naturally to the surface of the Earth (seep).
Stream113linear body of water flowing on the Earth's surface (anabranch, awawa, bayou, branch, brook, creek, distributary, fork, kill, pup, rio, river, run, slough).
Summit85prominent 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?
Valley76linear 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).
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