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Bishop, California. Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) [5] is a city in California, United States. It is the most populous place and the only incorporated city in Inyo County. It is located near the northern end of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert, at an elevation of 4,150 feet (1,260 m). [4] The city was named after Bishop Creek, flowing out ...
The Bishop Paiute Tribe, formerly known as the Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony[2] is a federally recognized tribe of Mono and Timbisha Indians of the Owens Valley, in Inyo County of eastern California. [1] As of 2022, the United States census showed the Bishop Paiute Tribe's population at 1,914.
The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff which formed 764,800 ± 600 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the approximately six-day eruption that formed the Long Valley Caldera. [1][2][3] Large outcrops of the tuff are located in Inyo and Mono Counties, California, United States. Approximately 200 cubic kilometers of ash and tuff erupted ...
Website. www.inyocounty.us. Inyo County (/ ˈɪnjoʊ / ⓘ) is a county in the eastern central part of the U.S. state of California, located between the Sierra Nevada and the state of Nevada. In the 2020 census, the population was 19,016. [9] The county seat is Independence. [10]
Cortes Bank near San Diego. Location. Coordinates. 32°28′41″N 119°12′54″W / 32.478°N 119.215°W / 32.478; -119.215. Cortes Bank is a shallow seamount (a barely submerged island) in the North Pacific Ocean off California. It is 96 miles (83 nmi; 154 km) southwest of San Pedro in Los Angeles, 111 miles (96 nmi; 179 km) west ...
U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Hesperia, California to the Canadian border in Laurier, Washington. The California portion of US 395 is a 557-mile (896 km) route which traverses from Interstate 15 (I-15) in Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake.
The Buttermilks, or Buttermilk Country, is a well-known bouldering destination near Bishop, California. It comprises the western edge of the Owens Valley, in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada. [2] Buttermilk Country is renowned for its large "highball" boulders, made of quartz monzonite. [3] The boulders in the Buttermilks are glacial ...
Each color on the map represents an ecclesiastical province. The divisions in each province show the archdiocese and its individual dioceses. The following is a list of bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States, including Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.