Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An aircraft must maintain an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons.
Covering an area of 163,696 sq mi (423,970 km 2), California is the third-largest state in the United States in area, after Alaska and Texas. [126] California is one of the most geographically diverse states in the union and is often geographically bisected into two regions, Southern California , comprising the ten southernmost counties, [ 127 ...
The West Montalvo Oil Field is a large and productive oil field on the coast of Ventura County, California, in the United States, in and adjacent to the city of Oxnard, California. Discovered in 1947, [ 93 ] it has produced approximately 50 million barrels (7,900,000 m 3 ) of oil, and originally contained up to 650 million barrels of oil in ...
Los Angeles, [a] often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.With an estimated 3,820,914 residents within the city limits as of 2023, [8] it is the second-most populous city in the United States, behind only New York City; it is also the commercial, financial and cultural center of Southern California.
With a 2022 population of 971,233, [9] it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively [14] [15] —the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most ...
Rancho Mirage is a city in Riverside County, California, United States. The city is a low-density desert community with resorts, golf courses, and country clubs within the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert. [5] [6] Nestled along the foothills of the Santa Rosa Mountains in the south, it is located several minutes east of Palm Springs.
The area was once a dense oak woodland and the city is trying to maintain a healthy urban forest partly through preserving Mooney Grove Park, one of the largest valley oak groves in California. Also, just outside the city limits is the Kaweah Oaks Preserve, which is a 322-acre (1.3 km 2) nature preserve.
Route 15 is defined as follows in section 315 of the California Streets and Highways Code: [3] Route 15 is from: (a) Route 5 in San Diego to Route 8. (b) Route 8 to the Nevada state line near Stateline, Nevada via the vicinity of Temecula, Corona, Ontario, Victorville, and Barstow.