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| 1 | Cupertino, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 86 Lat/Lng : 37.3175 / -122.0419 | Cupertino is a U.S. city in Santa Clara County, California, directly west of San Jose on the western edge of the Santa Clara Valley with portions extending into the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. The population was 58,302 as of the 2010 census.census (...) | |
| 2 | Milpitas, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 8 Lat/Lng : 37.4347 / -121.895 | Milpitas is a city in Santa Clara County, California. It is located with San Jose to its south and Fremont to its north, at the eastern end of State Route 237 and generally between Interstates 680 and 880 which run roughly north/south through the city (...) | |
| 3 | Carson City, Nevada ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1416 Lat/Lng : 39.1608 / -119.7539 | Carson City is an independent city in and the capital of the US state of Nevada, named after the mountain man Kit Carson. As of the 2010 census, the population was 55,274. The majority of the town's population lives in Eagle Valley, on the eastern edge of the Carson Range, a branch of the Sierra (...) | |
| 4 | Santa Clara County, California ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 17 Lat/Lng : 37.3597 / -121.9697 | Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is California's 6th most populous county, with a population was 1,781,642, as of the 2010 census. The county seat and largest city is San Jose, the 10th most populous city in the United States and California's 3rd most populous city (...) | |
| 5 | Martinez, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 48 Lat/Lng : 38.0006 / -122.12 | Martinez is a city in and the county seat of Contra Costa County, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 35,824 at the 2010 census. The downtown is notable for its large number of preserved old buildings and antique shops (...) | |
| 6 | Cedar City, Utah ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 1784 Lat/Lng : 37.6775 / -113.0619 | Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah, United States. It is located south of Salt Lake City, and north of Las Vegas on Interstate 15. It is the home of Southern Utah University, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Utah Summer Games, the Neil Simon Theatre Festival, and other events (...) | |
| 7 | Omaha, Nebraska ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 351 Lat/Lng : 41.2667 / -96.0167 | Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. Omaha is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha is the anchor of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area, which includes Council (...) | |
| 8 | Modesto, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 30 Lat/Lng : 37.6614 / -120.9944 | Modesto (Spanish for "modest"), officially the City of Modesto, is the county seat and largest city of Stanislaus County, California, United States. With a population of approximately 201,165 at the 2010 census, it is the 18th largest city in the state of California and forms part of the (...) | |
| 9 | San Luis Obispo, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 84 Lat/Lng : 35.2853 / -120.6625 | San Luis Obispo (; , ; Obispeño: tiłhini, "Place of the full moon"), or SLO for short, is a city in the U.S. state of California, located roughly midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco on the Central Coast of Southern California. The population was 45,119 at the 2010 census (...) | |
| 10 | Salt Lake City ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1294 Lat/Lng : 40.7547 / -111.8925 | Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah. With an estimated population of 190,884 in 2014, the city is the core of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a population of 1,153,340 (2014 (...) | |
| 11 | Richmond, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 12 Lat/Lng : 37.9358 / -122.3478 | Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. , El Cerrito Historical Society, June 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007. Located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Richmond borders the cities of San Pablo, (...) | |
| 12 | Royal Gorge Bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1972 Lat/Lng : 38.4614 / -105.3252 | The Royal Gorge Bridge is a tourist attraction near Cañon City, Colorado within Royal Gorge Bridge & Park, a 360-acre (150 ha) amusement park located along the edge of the Royal Gorge around both ends of the bridge (...) | |
| 13 | Tesla, Inc. ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 60 Lat/Lng : 37.3947 / -122.1503 | Tesla, Inc. (formerly Tesla Motors, Inc.) is an American automotive and energy company based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in electric car manufacturing and, through its SolarCity subsidiary, solar panel manufacturing (...) | |
| 14 | Oakland, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 24 Lat/Lng : 37.8044 / -122.2708 | Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast port city, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth most populated city (...) | |
| 15 | Arch bridge ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 155 Lat/Lng : 29.5889 / 106.5775 | An arch bridge is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. Arch bridges work by transferring the weight of the bridge and its loads partially into a horizontal thrust restrained by the abutments at either side (...) | |
| 16 | Kern County, California ![]() FeatureType : adm2nd Elevation : 296 Lat/Lng : 35.34 / -118.72 | Kern County is a county in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 839,631. Its county seat is Bakersfield. Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley (...) | |
| 17 | Stockton, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.9756 / -121.3008 | Stockton is a city in and the county seat of San Joaquin County in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Stockton was founded by Captain Charles Maria Weber in 1849 after he acquired Rancho Campo de los Franceses. The city is named after Robert F (...) | |
| 18 | First Transcontinental Railroad ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 2065 Lat/Lng : 39.301 / -120.3003 | The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S (...) | |
| 19 | California Gold Rush ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 250 Lat/Lng : 38.8025 / -120.8947 | The California Gold Rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California."vents from January 1848 through December 1855 generally acknowledged as the 'Gold Rush' (...) | |
| 20 | Toledo, Ohio ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 186 Lat/Lng : 41.6656 / -83.5753 | Toledo is a city in and the county seat of Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, at the western end of Lake Erie bordering the state of Michigan. The city was founded in 1833 on the west bank of the Maumee River, and originally incorporated as part of Monroe County, (...) | |
| 21 | Nebraska ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 916 Lat/Lng : 41.5 / -100.0 | Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States. It is bordered by South Dakota to the north, Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River, Kansas to the south, Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west (...) | |
| 22 | Ohio ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 260 Lat/Lng : 41.122 / -80.684 | Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States. Of the fifty states, is the 34th largest by area, the seventh most populous, and the tenth most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus (...) | |
| 23 | Deutsche Bank ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 103 Lat/Lng : 50.114 / 8.6693 | Deutsche Bank AG is a German investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. The bank is operational in 58 countries with a large presence in Europe, the Americas and Asia (...) | |
| 24 | San Francisco Bay Area ![]() FeatureType : null Lat/Lng : 37.75 / -122.2833 | The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California. Although the exact boundaries of the region vary depending on the source, the Bay Area is (...) | |
| 25 | Utah ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 2119 Lat/Lng : 40.69 / -111.4426 | Utah (help=no) is a state in the western United States. It became the 45th state admitted to the U.S. on January 4, 1896. Utah is the 13th-largest by area, 31st-most-populous, and 10th-least-densely populated of the 50 United States (...) | |
| 26 | Fukaya, Saitama ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 36.1975 / 139.2815 | is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 144,696, and a population density of 1040 persons per km². Its total area is . It is famous for a variety of welsh onions or . (...) | |
| 27 | California ![]() FeatureType : adm1st Elevation : 96 Lat/Lng : 37.0 / -120.0 | California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States. With 39.5 million residents, California is the most populous U.S. state and the third-largest by area. The state capital is Sacramento. The Greater Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second- and (...) | |
| 28 | Baltimore ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 15 Lat/Lng : 39.2864 / -76.615 | Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States. Baltimore was established by the Constitution of MarylandThe form and type of government of the city is described by Article XI of the State Constitution (...) | |
| 29 | Boeing B-52 Stratofortress ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 712 Lat/Lng : 34.9931 / -117.8836 | The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s (...) | |
| 30 | Chinatown, San Francisco ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 40 Lat/Lng : 37.7947 / -122.4072 | The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia. It is the oldest of the four notable Chinatowns in the city.Hoiberg, Dale: The New Encyclopædia Britannica MicroPaedia vol (...) | |
| 31 | Karst ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 532 Lat/Lng : 46.0128 / 10.9796 | Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant rocks, such as quartzite, given the right conditions (...) | |
| 32 | Gigafactory 1 ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 1430 Lat/Lng : 39.5394 / -119.439 | The Tesla Gigafactory 1 is a lithium-ion battery factory near Clark, Nevada. The facility is owned and operated by Tesla, Inc. to supply the battery packs for its electric vehicles and stationary storage systems (...) | |
| 33 | Owens River ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 1093 Lat/Lng : 36.5419 / -117.9792 | The Owens River is a river in eastern California in the United States, approximately long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. , accessed March 17, 2011 It drains into and through the Owens Valley, an arid basin between the eastern slope of the Sierra (...) | |
| 34 | Qualcomm ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 106 Lat/Lng : 32.8952 / -117.1957 | Qualcomm Incorporated is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services. It derives most of its revenue from chipmaking and the bulk of its profit from patent licensing businesses (...) | |
| 35 | Heinz ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 223 Lat/Lng : 40.4545 / -79.9909 | The H. J. Heinz Company, better known simply as Heinz, is an American food processing company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally, the company was founded by Henry John Heinz in 1869. Heinz manufactures thousands of food products in plants on six continents, and markets these products in (...) | |
| 36 | Las Vegas Valley ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 732 Lat/Lng : 36.3167 / -115.2333 | The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada. The state's largest urban agglomeration, it is the heart of the Las Vegas–Paradise-Henderson, NV MSA. The Valley is largely defined by the Las Vegas Valley landform, a basin area surrounded by (...) | |
| 37 | United States presidential election, 2012 ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 284 Lat/Lng : 35.2269 / -80.8433 | The United States presidential election of 2012 was the 57th quadrennial American presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 6, 2012. The Democratic nominee, President Barack Obama, and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, were elected to a second term (...) | |
| 38 | Owens Lake ![]() FeatureType : waterbody Elevation : 1082 Lat/Lng : 36.4434 / -117.952 | Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is about south of Lone Pine, California. Unlike most dry lakes in the Basin and Range Province that have been dry for thousands of years, Owens held significant water until (...) | |
| 39 | Ermington, New South Wales ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 39 Lat/Lng : -33.8148 / 151.0547 | Ermington (formerly "Field of Mars") is a suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ermington is located 19 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta. Ermington lies on the northern bank of the Parramatta River (...) | |
| 40 | Fremont Bridge (Portland, Oregon) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 45.5377 / -122.6825 | The Fremont Bridge is a steel tied-arch bridge over the Willamette River located in Portland, Oregon, United States. It carries Interstate 405 and US 30 traffic between downtown and North Portland where it intersects with Interstate 5 (...) | |
| 41 | Alcatraz Citadel ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 27 Lat/Lng : 37.8267 / -122.4233 | Alcatraz Citadel, also known as Fort Alcatraz, was the original military defense and prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The citadel was built in 1859 as a U.S. Army military defense, and began function as a war camp in 1861 and long-term military (...) | |
| 42 | Tied-arch bridge ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 295 Lat/Lng : 39.2842 / -80.2561 | A tied-arch bridge is an arch bridge in which the outward-directed horizontal forces of the arch(es) are borne as tension by a chord tying the arch ends, rather than by the ground or the bridge foundations. This strengthened chord may be the deck structure itself or consist of separate, (...) | |
| 43 | Queen Anne, Seattle ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 118 Lat/Lng : 47.6372 / -122.3569 | Queen Anne Hill is an affluent neighborhood and geographic feature in Seattle, northwest of downtown. The neighborhood sits on the highest named hill in the city, with a maximum elevation of . It covers an area of , and has a population of about 28,000 (...) | |
| 44 | Timeline of Seattle ![]() FeatureType : city Elevation : 56 Lat/Lng : 47.6097 / -122.3331 | The following is a of the history of the city of Seattle, Washington, USA. (...) | |
| 45 | Amargosa Valley ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 804 Lat/Lng : 36.6333 / -116.4 | The Amargosa Valley is the valley through which the Amargosa River flows south, in Nye County, southwestern Nevada and Inyo County in the state of California. The south end is alternately called the "Amargosa River Valley'" or the "Tecopa Valley (...) | |
| 46 | Demographics of California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 99 Lat/Lng : 35.4636 / -119.3254 | California is the most populated U.S. state, with an estimated population of 39.497 million as of 2017. It has people from a wide variety of ethnic, racial, national, and religious backgrounds. (...) | |
| 47 | Tiffin University ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 239 Lat/Lng : 41.118 / -83.185 | Tiffin University is a private coeducational university in Tiffin, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1888,Oliver Jr., J (2003). Cradles of Conscience. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. Tiffin University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) for the undergraduate and graduate (...) | |
| 48 | Pacific Commons ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 4 Lat/Lng : 37.5046 / -121.9664 | Pacific Commons is a master-planned, mixed-use development consisting of 840 acres in Fremont, California currently in development by Catellus Development Corporation. It sits on part of the site of what was once the Fremont Dragstrip/Baylands Raceway Park and the Skyways Airport, a glider field (...) | |
| 49 | Shinn, Fremont, California ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 23 Lat/Lng : 37.5667 / -121.9833 | Shinn (formerly, Shinn Station) is a former unincorporated community, now incorporated into Fremont in Alameda County, California. It lies at an elevation of . The Shinn area is bounded approximately by Peralta Blvd to the south and Niles to the north and forms the northern part of the Parkmont (...) | |
| 50 | Montgomery Park (Portland, Oregon) ![]() FeatureType : landmark Elevation : 38 Lat/Lng : 45.5375 / -122.7079 | Montgomery Park is an office building and former Montgomery Ward mail-order catalog warehouse and department store located in Portland, Oregon, United States, built in 1920. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name Montgomery Ward & Company Building (...) | |
| 51 | Bromine production in the United States ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 537 Lat/Lng : 35.7653 / -117.3828 | __NOTOC__ Bromine production in the United States of 225,000 tonnes in 2013 made that country the second-largest producer of bromine, after Israel. The US supplied 29 percent of world production. Since 2007, all US bromine has been produced by two companies in southern Arkansas, which extract (...) | |
| 52 | Pacific Locomotive Association ![]() FeatureType : null Elevation : 73 Lat/Lng : 37.5978 / -121.9179 | The Pacific Locomotive Association (PLA) is an organization dedicated to the preservation of the physical aspects and atmosphere of Pacific Coast railroading during the period from 1910 to 1960. The Pacific Locomotive Association operates the Niles Canyon Railway, and has railroad artifacts on (...) | |