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Saltdale is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [1] It is located near Koehn Lake 21 miles (34 km) south-southwest of Ridgecrest near Garlock, California. [2] It is at an elevation of 1,923 feet (586 m). [1] The town was founded in 1914 for salt harvesting from Koehn Dry Lake. [2] A post office operated at Saltdale from 1916 ...
Chicago is traditionally divided into the three "sides" of the North Side, West Side, and South Side by the Chicago River. These three sides are represented by the white stripes on the Flag of Chicago. [12] The city is also divided into 50 wards for the purpose of electing one alderman each to the Chicago City Council. These wards have at times ...
Image of the Charles Pope Beet Sugar Works on the Calumet River in Riverdale (1910) The Village of Riverdale was incorporated in 1893. [3] In 1904 the Englishman and former Chicago glucose manufacturer Charles Pope (1843-1922) [4] purchased property in Riverdale at what is today the west side of Indiana Avenue [5] with the intention of establishing a beet sugar factory.
Riverdale is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois and is located on the city's far south side.. As originally designated by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago and officially adopted by the City of Chicago, the Riverdale community area extends from 115th Street south to the city boundary at 138th Street and from the Illinois Central ...
The valley is 19 km (12 mi) northeast of California City, and east of Red Rock Canyon State Park. The lake is approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) long and 3 miles (4.8 km) at its widest point. The nearby ghost town of Saltdale was founded in 1915, for salt harvesting from the dry lakebed. The ghost town of Garlock is on the north.
Judy Chicago gave up on finding a new spot for her Desert X smoke sculpture. Now she's worried the brouhaha will affect work planned in San Francisco. Judy Chicago's Desert X art got canceled.
Cantil was founded as a station on the Nevada and California Railroad in 1908 or 1909 when the line was extended from Owens Lake to Mojave. [2] The name is Spanish for "stone cliff" or "steep rock", and is one of a series of "C" names chosen for this section of the line including Cambio, Cinco, and Ceneda. [3]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the City of Chicago has a total area of 606.1 km 2 (234.0 sq mi). 588.3 km 2 (227.1 sq mi) of it is land and 17.8 square kilometres (6.9 sq mi) of it is water. The total area is 2.94% water.