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Point Arena, formerly known as Punta Arena (Spanish for "Sandy Point") [3] is a small coastal city in Mendocino County, California, United States. Point Arena is located 32 miles (51 km) west of Hopland, [5] at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m). [3] The population was 460 at the 2020 census, [4] making it one of the smallest incorporated cities ...
The first European to record Point Arena was Spaniard Bartolomé Ferrer in 1543, who named it Cabo de Fortunas ("cape of fortunes"). in 1775, lieutenant Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (commander of the schooner Sonora) renamed the cape Punta Delgado ("narrow point") during a royal expedition chartered by the Viceroyalty of New Spain to map the north coast of Alta California.
The Main Street Historic Commercial District in Point Arena, California is a 4-acre (1.6 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. It included 21 contributing buildings. [1] [2]
Point Arena Air Force Station (ADC ID: P-37, NORAD ID: Z-37) is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located 3.7 miles (6.0 km) east of Point Arena, California. It was closed in 1998 by the Air Force, and turned over to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Concretions on Bowling Ball Beach, south of Point Arena, California Bowling Ball Beach is a part of Schooner Gulch State Beach , in Mendocino County, California , in the United States. It is named for the spherical sandstone concretions found there at low tide.
Point Arena SMR and Point Arena SMCA are two of 22 marine protected areas adopted by the California Department of Fish and Game in August 2009, during the second phase of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative. The MLPAI is a collaborative public process to create a statewide network of protected areas along California’s coastline.
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The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City. By the ...