When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. California, Kentucky - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California,_Kentucky

    A post office has been in operation at California since 1852. [4] California was incorporated as a city on February 7, 1874. [5] The Elijah Herndon House in California is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Campbell County. Soprano Mary Hissem De Moss was born in California, Kentucky in 1871. [6]

  3. Ozarks - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozarks

    A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]

  4. Calcareous glade - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcareous_glade

    These glades often have dolomitic soils, resulting in a high magnesium content (in contrast to the glades of the Nashville Basin). In Virginia, these glades provide habitat for rare magnesiophiles such as Addison's leatherflower ( Clematis addisonii ), tall larkspur ( Delphinium exaltatum ), smooth coneflower ( Echinacea laevigata ), and glade ...

  5. Ozark Highlands (ecoregion) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark_Highlands_(ecoregion)

    The Springfield Plateau is the only Ozark Highland Level IV ecoregion within all four states. [1] The nearly level to rolling Springfield Plateau is underlain by cherty limestone of the Mississippian Boone Formation and Burlington Limestone; it is less rugged and wooded than Ecoregions 38, 39b, and 39c, and lacks the Ordovician dolomite and limestone of Ecoregions 39c and 39d.

  6. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners ...

    www.aol.com/central-valley-became-fertile-land...

    The 10-day “Klan Fiesta” at the Fresno fairgrounds drew 50,000 attendees from throughout California and the Southwest. How the Central Valley became a fertile land for Southerners, 1924 KKK ...

  7. Ozark, Kentucky - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozark,_Kentucky

    Ozark is an unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky, United States located along the Louie B Nunn Cumberland Parkway and east of Columbia, Kentucky. Its elevation is 883 feet (269m). Its elevation is 883 feet (269m).

  8. List of nature centers in Kentucky - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nature_centers_in...

    website, 287 acres, located in the Kentucky River Palisades, managed by an independent board in conjunction with the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission, features the Winifred W. Haggart Nature Center Fort Wright Nature Center: Fort Wright: Kenton: Northern Kentucky: website, 13 acre park, operated by the city Gladie Visitor Center ...

  9. Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falls_of_the_Ohio_National...

    Louisville, Kentucky, and the associated Indiana communities—Jeffersonville, Clarksville, and New Albany—all owe their existence as communities to the falls, as the navigational obstacles the falls presented meant that late-18th-century and early- to late-19th-century river traffic could benefit from local expertise in navigating the 26 ...