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Post-colonial: Spanish place names that have no history of being used during the colonial period for the place in question or for nearby related places. (Ex: Lake Buena Vista, Florida, named in 1969 after a street in Burbank, California) Non-Spanish: Place names originating from non-Spaniards or in non-historically Spanish areas.
Cahuenga, the Spanish name for the Tongva village of Kawengna, meaning place of the mountain [1] César E. Chávez Avenue: César Chávez Mexican-American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist [1] Crenshaw neighborhood Crenshaw Boulevard: George Crenshaw, banker and real estate developer Figueroa Avenue Figueroa Street
Jane Davies Gunther, in her book Riverside County, California Place Names; Their Origins and Their Stories, casts doubt on whether Colonel Washington actually named the canyon. None of his survey records, or the subsequent survey records by John La Croze in 1856, or by Carl R. and Marvin Caudle in 1903, mention the canyon by name.
The oak and other trees, once abundant in the region; alameda is Spanish for "avenue shaded by trees" or "cottonwood grove". Charter 1,622,188: 738 sq mi (1,911 km 2) Alpine County: 003: Markleeville: 1864: Amador, El Dorado, Calaveras, Mono and Tuolumne: Location high in the Sierra Nevada; alpine refers to the Alps or other mountains. General ...
"California in 1846" map shows geographic distribution of Spanish and Mexican land grants Mexican land grants of Tehama County, California (Bureau of Land Management map, 1997) These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals ...
Yerba buena ("good herb" in Spanish) was the name the Spanish missionaries gave to the local wild mint species Clinopodium douglasii. It was the name of the anchorage at Yerba Buena Cove and San Francisco's first civilian town, which grew into the modern city, located at the cove. Yorba Street: José Antonio Yorba: Zampa Lane: Al Zampa
This list of current: cities; towns, unincorporated communities; counties, and other recognized places in the U.S. state of California. Information on the number and names of counties in which the place lies, and its lower and upper ZIP code bounds, if applicable are also included.
For the purposes of this list, place means any named location that is smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts. Also included are country homes, castles, palaces, and similar institutions.