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Location of Butte County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Butte County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Butte County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Spryfield has a history of large forest fires, which in more recent decades seems to have peaked in the 1960s, when a number of large fires burned a significant proportion of the forests in the area. The largest Spryfield fire of the 21st-century began on 29 April 2009, [ 6 ] when a forest fire erupted in the afternoon in the Green Acres area ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in California on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008, [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
The death toll from the earthquake and resulting fire is the greatest loss of life from a natural disaster in California's history. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude (M w) or Richter magnitude (M L) of 7.8; [7] however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25. [8]
A house once owned by a popular jazz musician has landed on the real estate market in sunny Palm Springs and is known for its unusual, rocky lure.
Warner's Ranch, near Warner Springs, California, was notable as a way station for large numbers of emigrants on the Southern Emigrant Trail from 1849 to 1861, as it was a stop on both the Gila River Trail and the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line (1859-1861).
A plaque commemorating the Black family who owned a patch of California beach that was seized in 1924 by segregationist government officials has been stolen, authorities in Manhattan Beach said ...