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Los Banos (/ l oʊ s ˈ b æ n oʊ s / lohss BAN-ohss), alternatively Los Baños (/ l oʊ s ˈ b æ n j oʊ s / lohss BAN-yohss), is a city in Merced County, California, United States. It is located in the San Joaquin Valley in Central California , near the junction of State Route 152 and Interstate 5 .
I-5 (West Side Freeway) – Sacramento, Los Angeles: Interchange; south end of SR 165; I-5 exit 391: Los Banos: 8.79: SR 152 / SR 33 (Pacheco Boulevard) to I-5 north – Gilroy, Fresno 26.87: SR 140 – Merced, Gustine 30.18: CR J18 east (West Side Boulevard) South end of CR J18 overlap 30.18: CR J18 west (River Road) North end of CR J18 ...
Pacheco Pass is named after Don Francisco Pérez Pacheco, a noted Californio ranchero whose lands were situated on the pass. 1939 map of Route 152 alignments between Bell Station and Pacheco Pass. [11] 1963 map of Route 152 alignments at San Luis Reservoir. [12] The road became popular as a route east during the California Gold Rush.
Los Banos — a small city in the eastern San Joaquin Valley, within Merced County, California. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Los Banos, California"
The Randall Fawcett House is a Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Usonian home in Los Banos, California.The home was designed in 1955 and completed in 1961. The original owners, Randall "Buck" and Harriet Fawcett, met Wright while taking an architecture course at Stanford University.
Los Baños Creek or Los Banos Creek, originally El Arroyo de los Baños, [3] is a 40 miles (64 km) long [4] tributary stream of the San Joaquin River in Merced County, California. From its source in the central Diablo Range it flows east into the Central Valley where it turns northeast to the west edge of Los Banos .
The "Rancho Sanjon de Santa Rita" Mexican land grant cites "Los Dos Palos" or "The Two Trees" as a boundary marker. In 1891, former school superintendent Bernhard Marks convinced cattle ranch king Henry Miller to develop a small town nearby. They gave it the name "Dos Palos Colony" but pronounced it with their ethnic accents (Marks a Polish Jew ...
San Lorenzo is named after Rancho San Lorenzo, a vast estate granted in 1841 to Don Guillermo Castro, a noted Californio ranchero.. San Lorenzo is located on the route of El Camino Viejo on land of the former Rancho San Lorenzo, a Mexican land grant given to Guillermo Castro in 1841, and the former Rancho San Leandro, granted to José Joaquin Estudillo in 1842.