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Private auto camp for cotton pickers in Buckeye, 1940. Buckeye / ˈ b ʌ k aɪ / is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.It is Arizona's second-largest city by area, and it is the westernmost suburb in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.
Karst regions overlying limestone bedrock tend to have fewer visible above-ground sources (ponds and streams), as surface water easily drains downward through joints in the limestone. While draining, water and organic acid from the soil slowly (over thousands or millions of years) enlarges these cracks, dissolving the calcium carbonate and ...
A village is usually, but not always, within a single town. A village may be coterminous with, and have a consolidated government with, a town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes.
A village is a type of incorporated urban municipality in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. [1] A village is created from an organized hamlet by the Minister of Municipal Affairs by ministerial order via section 51 of The Municipalities Act if the community has: been an organized hamlet for three or more years; a population of 100 or more;
1:18 scale is a traditional scale (ratio) for models and miniatures, in which 18 units (such as inches or centimeters) on the original is represented by one unit on the model.
The Financial District of Lower Manhattan, also known as FiDi, [4] is a neighborhood located on the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.It is bounded by the West Side Highway on the west, Chambers Street and City Hall Park on the north, Brooklyn Bridge on the northeast, the East River to the southeast, and South Ferry and the Battery on the south.
Gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, but there are other factors affecting slope stability that produce specific conditions that make a slope prone to failure. In many cases, the landslide is triggered by a specific event (such as a heavy rainfall , an earthquake , a slope cut to build a road, and many others ...
Bergen County is the most populous county in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [8] Located in the northeastern corner of New Jersey, Bergen County and its many inner suburbs constitute a highly developed part of the New York City metropolitan area, bordering the Hudson River; the George Washington Bridge, which crosses the Hudson, connects Bergen County with Manhattan.