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During World War II, the U.S. Army constructed the Mariposa Auxiliary Field (1942–1945) to train pilots; post-war, the site was redeveloped as today’s Mariposa-Yosemite Airport. [ 18 ] On July 18, 2017, the town was evacuated due to the rapidly spreading Detwiler Fire , which threatened Mariposa and its surroundings.
Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Mariposa County, California" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Douglas is a city in Coffee County, Georgia, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city had a population of 11,722. Douglas is the county seat of Coffee County [ 4 ] and the core city of the Douglas micropolitan statistical area , which had a population of 50,731 as of the 2010 census.
Coffee County was created by an act of the Georgia General Assembly on February 9, 1854, from portions of Clinch, Irwin, Telfair, and Ware counties. These lands were originally ceded by the Creek in the Treaty of Fort Jackson in (1814) and the Treaty of the Creek Agency (1818) and apportioned to the above counties before becoming Coffee County.
The county was created during Reconstruction after the American Civil War.The Georgia General Assembly named it after abolitionist Frederick Douglass but later changed the spelling to instead credit former Illinois senator Stephen A. Douglas as its namesake, [3] an Illinois senator and the Democratic opponent of Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election of 1860.
The Summit Inn was a historic U.S. Route 66 roadside diner built in 1952, located at the summit of Cajon Pass in San Bernardino County, California. The building was destroyed by the Blue Cut Fire on August 16, 2016. [2] The building's current owners plan to rebuild the restaurant, as it appeared before the fire. [3]
Douglasville is served by the Douglas County Sentinel, [58] a three-day-a-week publication that covers local and state news and by All On Georgia - Douglas, [59] a hyperlocal digital news organization that covers local, state and national news, daily. Chapel Hill News & Views also serves Douglasville as a monthly magazine with 45,000 circulation.
The Telegraph Fire was a destructive wildfire in Mariposa County, Central California, in the summer of 2008.After it was unintentionally ignited by a target shooter on July 25, the fire burned 34,091 acres (13,796 hectares) in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada west of Yosemite National Park before it was declared fully contained on August 6.