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  2. California Birth Index - Wikipedia

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    The index contains birth records of all registered births in California between 1905 and 1995. Each record is an abstract of a person's birth certificate, including date of birth, full name, [1] county of birth, gender, and mother's maiden name. The index is available online from a number of sources. See below.

  3. Salton Sea - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Salton Sea drainage area. The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties in Southern California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico. The lake is about 15 by 35 miles (24 by 56 km) at its widest and ...

  4. History of the mapping of California - Wikipedia

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    Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.

  5. Birth certificate - Wikipedia

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    The state or territory issued birth certificate is a secure A4 paper document, generally listing: Full name at birth, sex at birth, parent(s) and occupation(s), older sibling(s), address(es), date and place of birth, name of the registrar, date of registration, date of issue of certificate, a registration number, with the signature of the ...

  6. List of counties in California - Wikipedia

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    The counties of California are local arms of the State of California, described by the Supreme Court of California as agents ("the county is merely a political subdivision of state government, exercising only the powers of the state, granted by the state…'") and the property they hold is held on behalf of all the people of the state.

  7. Bombay Beach, California - Wikipedia

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    It is located on the Salton Sea, 4 miles (6.4 km) west-southwest of Frink [3] and is the lowest community in the United States, located 223 feet (68 m) below sea level. [4] The population was 231 at the 2020 census, down from 295 in 2010, down from 366 in 2000. [5] It is part of the El Centro, California, metropolitan statistical area.

  8. Geography of California - Wikipedia

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    The sea off California is remarkably fertile, a murky green filled with a massive variety of fish, rather than the clear dead blue of most tropical seas. Before 1930, there was an extremely valuable sardine ( herring ) fishery off Monterey , but this was depleted, an event later famous as the background to John Steinbeck 's Cannery Row .

  9. Gulf of California - Wikipedia

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    The Gulf of California: Biodiversity and Conservation. University of Arizona Press. pp. 354 pages. Studies by researchers, on both sides of the border, on the threats to the diversity of species in the gulf's waters. MacDonald, Gregory (2019). Isle of the Amazons In the Vermilion Sea. Kansas City, MO: 39 West Press. ISBN 978-1-946358-14-1.