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Map of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range. The range is a 459,000 acres (1,860 km 2) [1] open-area, approximately 20 miles wide, east to west, and 50 miles long, northwest to southeast, with a special-use airspace of 700 square miles (1,800 km 2) [1] which is used for aerial bombing and live fire aerial gunnery practice.
Rancho Nipomo Dana Adobe and re-enactor, 2012. Rancho Nipomo was a 37,888-acre (153.33 km 2) Mexican land grant in present day San Luis Obispo County, California given in 1837 by Governor Juan B. Alvarado to William Goodwin Dana. [2] The grant encompassed present day Nipomo. [3] [4] [5] The ranch is designated as a California Historical ...
In December 1940, [4] Camp Davis was built by the United States Army as an anti-aircraft artillery training facility. Camp Davis was attached to the First Army, Fourth Corps Area and held a complement of about 20,000 officers and soldiers.
The Vasquez Rocks, situated in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, in northern Los Angeles County, California, have been used as a setting for key scenes in many motion pictures, television shows, music videos, and video games. The following is a partial list of such multimedia in which the rock formations are included:
Nipomo (/ n ə ˈ p oʊ m oʊ /; Chumash: Nipumuʔ) [4] is an unincorporated town in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 16,714 for the 2010 census [5] and grew to 18,176 for the 2020 census. [6] For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Nipomo as a census-designated place (CDP).
The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge is a 2,553-acre (10.33 km 2) protected area located along the Central Coast of California, in southern San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara Counties. [2]
California Fish Grill is a chain of restaurants located in the Greater Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento metropolitan areas, Nevada and Arizona which claim to serve only responsibly sourced seafood. The chain was founded in 1998 in Gardena, California [1] [2] by Victor Topete [3] and is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.
The Dana Adobe & Cultural Center or "Casa de Dana" is a historic landmark in Nipomo, California.It was the home of Boston sea captain William Goodwin Dana, who in 1837 was granted the 37,888-acre (153.33 km 2) Rancho Nipomo in Southern California.