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List table of the properties and districts — listed on the California Historical Landmarks — within Imperial County, Southern California. Note: Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Imperial County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a Google map. [1]
English: Locator map of Imperial County — in Southern California. David Benbennick made this map. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps .
15.04 [N 1] SR 78 east / Main Street – Holtville, Blythe: South end of SR 78 overlap; Main Street was former SR 78 east / SR 111 north: 23.67: SR 78 west / Old Highway 111: Interchange; north end of SR 78 overlap; Old Highway 111 was former SR 111 south CR S26 (Rutherford Road) – Wiest Lake 29.40: Two Rivers Rest Area
Imperial is located in the Imperial Valley (considered locally as synonymous with Imperial County). The city is 59.5 feet (18.14 m) below sea level. The Imperial Valley is in the Colorado Desert, an extension of the larger Sonoran Desert. The agriculture industry's demand for water is supplied by canals diverting water from the nearby Colorado ...
The Old Plank Road is a plank road in Imperial County, California, that was built in 1915 as an east–west route over the Algodones Dunes.It effectively connected the extreme lower section of Southern California to Arizona and provided the last link in a commercial route between San Diego and Yuma.
The city was founded in the 1880s by Swiss-German settlers, many of whom entered from Mexico.The construction of railroads in the 1890s, the All-American Canal in the late 1940s, and U.S. Route 80 in the 1920s (later converted to Interstate 8 in the 1970s) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) economic boom in the 1990s brought more people to Holtville and the Imperial Valley.
Heber was founded in 1903 by the Imperial Land Company. [5] The first post office at Heber opened in 1904, having been established first as Bradtmoore a half mile north. [ 4 ] The name honors A.H. Heber, president of the California Development Company .