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Volcano House, also known as the Cinder Cone House, [1] Vulcania [2] and Volcania, [3] near Newberry Springs in San Bernardino County, Southern California, United States, is a mid-century modern house designed by architect Harold James Bissner Jr. and built in 1968–1969 on top of a 150 ft (46 m)-high extinct volcanic cinder cone.
Volcanoville is an unincorporated community in El Dorado County, California. [1] It is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north-northeast of Georgetown, [2] at an elevation of 2992 feet (912 m). [1] A post office operated at Volcanoville from 1930 to 1953. [2] The name is due to early miners' mistaken belief that a nearby mountain was an extinct volcano. [2]
Pisgah Crater, or Pisgah Volcano, is a young volcanic cinder cone rising above a lava plain in the Mojave Desert, between Barstow and Needles, California in San Bernardino County, California. The volcanic peak is around 2.5 miles (4.0 km) south of historic U.S. Route 66 - National Old Trails Highway and of Interstate 40 , and west of the town ...
An aerial view of utility vehicles parked near beachfront homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire as wildfires cause damage and loss through the L.A. region on Jan. 13, 2025 in Malibu, California.
Volcano (formerly Soldier's Gulch and The Volcano) is a census-designated place [4] in Amador County, California. It lies at an elevation of 2,070 feet (631 m). It lies at an elevation of 2,070 feet (631 m).
Sea water, in theory, could be used to help a fire. But, its salty components can do more harm than good, which is why firefighters typically avoid using it unless absolutely necessary.
As part of the California Water Wars, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power purchased large tracts of land in the 1930s within Mono Basin and Owens Valley in order to control water rights. [ 8 ] : 296 Excavation of an 11.5-mile (18.5 km) water tunnel under the southern part of the Mono Craters dome complex started in 1934 and was ...
And it could contaminate water supplies to much of the state (California’s largest reservoirs are close to the Shasta and Lassen volcanoes). Mt. Shasta, California's largest volcano, had many ...