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List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within Imperial County, Southern California.. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
Location of Imperial County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Imperial County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Imperial County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
The Imperial Valley (Spanish: Valle de Imperial or Valle Imperial) of Southern California lies in Imperial and Riverside counties, with an urban area centered on the city of El Centro. The Valley is bordered by the Colorado River to the east and, in part, the Salton Sea to the west.
Chuckwalla National Monument is a national monument in the Colorado Desert of Southern California that protects 624,270 acres (2,526.3 km 2) of desert habitat in Riverside and Imperial counties from development. [1] [2] The monument spans several mountain ranges between Joshua Tree National Park and the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range.
The Yuha Desert is a section of the Sonoran Desert located in the Imperial Valley of California; south of Interstate 8, west of El Centro, and north of the international border. Unique aspects of the Yuha Desert include the Oyster Shell Beds, De Anza Historical Monument, Crucifixion Thorn Natural Area (named after the Castela emoryi ), and the ...
Salvation Mountain at the LOVE IS UNIVERSAL area; 2008 photo. Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [1] and several miles from the Salton Sea.
The northwestern end is located at about 11 miles (18 km) east of Calipatria, California, and the southeastern end is located at near Los Algodones in Mexico, about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Yuma The dunes are also now separated at the southern end by agricultural land from the much more extensive Gran Desierto de Altar , to which they once were ...
This is a complete List of National Historic Landmarks in California.The United States National Historic Landmark (NHL) program is operated under the auspices of the National Park Service, and recognizes structures, districts, objects, and similar resources nationwide according to a list of criteria of national significance. [1]