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Adams, California
Adams is an unincorporated community in Lake County, California. It was formerly Adams Springs, a summer resort developed around a small group of mineral water springs. Springs The Adams Springs are beside Big Canyon Creek. They are south of Seigler Mountain. The springs are at an elevation of 2815 feet (858 m). They are in a deep ravine about east of Astorg Spring. Along the steep slopes of the ravine the exposed rocks are sandstone and shale. Higher up these sediments are covered by basaltic or andesitic lava. A 1914 description stated, "The main spring is at the hotel, and is an alkaline carbon-dioxated water very pleasant to drink. Its temperature is , and it has considerable free carbon-dioxide gas. There are also several other smaller springs. They have been bottling water from the main spring for the past twenty years. but only during the summer season. The spring water is alkaline, strongly carbonated, with a petroleum odor and taste. Community Adams Springs is n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Canyon Creek (Lake County)
Big Canyon Creek is a creek in Lake County, California. It is a tributary of Putah Creek. Hydrology Big Canyon Creek is an long tributary of Putah Creek. Its mouth is at an elevation of . Big Canyon Creek supplies rainfall to the Putah Creek drainage with very little snowmelt or base flow. It does not contain any reservoirs to provide surface storage and regulate flows. In 1912 Warden R. L. Sinkey wrote of Putah Creek, "Becomes dry anywhere below Winters during the summer months. Putah Creek is just a small stream in the summertime. St. Helena Creek, Anderson Creek, Dry Creek run just small streams. Big Canyon Creek runs more water, I think, than all the rest". Location The Köppen climate classification is Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Boggs Mountain is an elongated rolling highland. It forms a topographical divide separating Big Canyon Creek to the east from Kelsey Creek to the west. Adams Springs is beside the creek, near its head. William Robert Prather, who de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Canyon Creek, Lake County
Big Canyon Creek is a creek in Lake County, California. It is a tributary of Putah Creek. Hydrology Big Canyon Creek is an long tributary of Putah Creek. Its mouth is at an elevation of . Big Canyon Creek supplies rainfall to the Putah Creek drainage with very little snowmelt or base flow. It does not contain any reservoirs to provide surface storage and regulate flows. In 1912 Warden R. L. Sinkey wrote of Putah Creek, "Becomes dry anywhere below Winters during the summer months. Putah Creek is just a small stream in the summertime. St. Helena Creek, Anderson Creek, Dry Creek run just small streams. Big Canyon Creek runs more water, I think, than all the rest". Location The Köppen climate classification is Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Boggs Mountain is an elongated rolling highland. It forms a topographical divide separating Big Canyon Creek to the east from Kelsey Creek to the west. Adams Springs is beside the creek, near its head. William Robert Prather, who de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. He established the first industrial research laboratory. Edison was raised in the American Midwest. Early in his career he worked as a telegraph operator, which inspired some of his earliest inventions. In 1876, he established his first laboratory facility in Menlo Park, New Jersey, where many of his early inventions were developed. He later established a botanical laboratory in Fort Myers, Florida, in co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valley Fire
The Valley Fire was a wildfire during the 2015 California wildfire season that started on September 12 in Lake County, California. It began shortly after 1:00 pm near Cobb with multiple reports of a small brush fire near the intersection of High Valley and Bottlerock Roads. It quickly spread and by 6:30 PM PDT, it had burned more than . By Sunday, the thirteenth of September, the fire had reached and had destroyed much of Cobb, Middletown, Whispering Pines, and parts in the south end of Hidden Valley Lake. The fire ultimately spread to , killed four people and destroyed nearly 2,000 buildings, before it was fully contained on October 15, 2015, causing at least $921 million (2015 USD) in insured property damage. At the time, the fire was the third-most destructive fire in California history, based on the total structures burned, but the Camp Fire (2018) and the North Complex fire in 2020, exceeded that total. Fire progression The fire quickly spread into Middletown and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco
San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of California cities by population, fourth most populous in California and List of United States cities by population, 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the County statistics of the United States, fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adams Springs Resort Hotel 1921
Adams may refer to: * For persons, see Adams (surname) Places United States *Adams, California *Adams, California, former name of Corte Madera, California *Adams, Decatur County, Indiana *Adams, Kentucky *Adams, Massachusetts, a New England town **Adams (CDP), Massachusetts, the central village in the town *Adams, Minnesota * Adams, North Dakota *Adams, Nebraska *Adams, New Jersey * Adams (town), New York ** Adams (village), New York, within the town * Adams, Oklahoma *Adams, Oregon * Adams, Pennsylvania, a former community in Armstrong County *Adams, Tennessee *Adams, Wisconsin, city in Adams County *Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin, town *Adams, Green County, Wisconsin, town *Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin, town *Adams, Walworth County, Wisconsin, unincorporated community *Adams Center, Wisconsin, a ghost town Elsewhere *Adams (lunar crater) *Adams (Martian crater) *Adams Island, New Zealand, one of the Auckland Islands *Adams, Ilocos Norte Transportation ;Vehicles *Adams (190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pelton Wheel
The Pelton wheel or Pelton Turbine is an impulse-type water turbine invented by American inventor Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s. The Pelton wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel. Many earlier variations of impulse turbines existed, but they were less efficient than Pelton's design. Water leaving those wheels typically still had high speed, carrying away much of the dynamic energy brought to the wheels. Pelton's paddle geometry was designed so that when the rim ran at half the speed of the water jet, the water left the wheel with very little speed; thus his design extracted almost all of the water's impulse energywhich made for a very efficient turbine. History file:Pelton wheel (patent).png, Figure from Lester Allan Pelton's original October 1880 patent Lester Allan Pelton was born in Vermillion, Ohio in 1829. In 1850, he traveled overland to take part in the California Gold Rush. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loch Lomond, California
Loch Lomond is an unincorporated community in Lake County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2,818 feet (859 m). It is located on State Route 175 north of the village of Cobb; north of Whispering Pines. The ZIP code is 95461, which is shared with Middletown. Unofficially, and perhaps incorrectly, 95426, which belongs to neighboring Cobb, California is often used.Official Lake County Tourism Site Shows examples of Loch Lomond addresses. Retrieved May 26, 2014 The community is inside . Description Loch Lomond is a small mountain resort with a population of 420 and was called "Little Italy" many years ago. Private resorts such as ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest
Boggs Mountain Demonstration State Forest is a state forest in Lake County, California that covers the northwest of Boggs Mountain. It was founded in 1949, and came into operation in 1950 when most of the site had been clear cut. The purpose was to demonstrate good practices in restoring and managing a forest. The state forest was open for recreational use, including camping, hiking, mountain biking etc. The 2015 Valley Fire destroyed 80% of the trees. The state forest as of 2021 was replanting saplings. Location The forest is roughly half way between Clear Lake (California), Clear Lake and Calistoga, California, Calistoga. It is near the town of Cobb, California, Cobb, about north of Middletown, California, Middletown on California State Route 175, Highway 175. It is about from the Pacific Ocean to the west, and about as the crow flies from San Francisco to the south. Boggs Mountain is a prominent feature at the southeast end of the Clear Lake Volcanic Field. It is an elonga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
