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It, along with Orwood Tract to the south, are managed by Reclamation District 2024 (Orwood and Palm Tracts). [22] Its coordinates are , and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 10 ft (3.0 m) in 1981. [1] It appears on 1913 and 1952 United States Geological Survey maps of the area. [2] [23]
Palms (originally "The Palms") is a community in the Westside region of Los Angeles, California, founded in 1886 and the oldest neighborhood annexed to the city, in 1915.. The 1886 tract was marketed as an agricultural and vacation community
That’s the question explored in a new documentary, “Racist Trees,” about a historically Black neighborhood called the Crossley tract in Palm Springs, Calif., whose residents suspected a ...
On the left it borders Stewart Tract, Coney Island, Widdows Island, Byron Tract, Orwood Tract, Palm Tract, Holland Tract, Little Mandeville Island, Quimby Island, and Webb Tract. The Old River also skirts the Franks Tract State Recreation Area, a former Delta island that is now submerged and forms a lake. [6]
United States Geological Survey map of Palm and Orwood Tracts in 1913. [2] The Orwood Tract is an island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. [3] [4] It is part of Contra Costa County, California. [5] [6] It, along with Palm Tract to the north, are managed by Reclamation District 2024 (Orwood and Palm Tracts). [7]
The area was part of Rancho La Ballona and later the Charnock Ranch (which grew lima beans, grain hay and walnuts). [4] [5] [6] Then, in 1939, the area was subdivided for the building of 1,200 single family homes by developer Fritz B. Burns, and it became one of the first examples of tract housing in the Los Angeles area. [5]
Palm Springs is the 144th largest TV market as defined by AC Nielsen. The Palm Springs DMA is unique among TV markets as it is entirely located within only a small portion of Riverside County. Also, while many cities launched local television stations during the 1950s, Palm Springs did not have a local TV station until October 1968, when ...
Glen Airy Place - Glen Airy Place was a residential subdivision advertised as "near the fashionable West Adams District". An official subdivision map gives the boundaries as Adams Street on the north, roughly Mansfield Avenue on the east, Roseland Street on the south and the rear line of properties fronting on Edgewater Street on the west. [50]