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Chester (formerly Big Meadows) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Plumas County, California, United States. [2] Chester is located on Lake Almanor , 30 miles (48.3 km) north-northwest of Quincy . [ 3 ]
Westchester began the 20th century as an agricultural area, growing a wide variety of crops in the dry, farming-friendly climate. The rapid development of the aerospace industry near Mines Field (as the Los Angeles Airport was then known), the move of then Loyola University to the area in 1928, and population growth in Los Angeles as a whole created a demand for housing in the area.
The dam is 130 feet (40 m) tall and composed of hydraulic fill.. Lake Almanor Dam, spillway, and release point for the North Fork Feather River. The first dam was completed by Great Western Power in 1914 [2] as part of the Upper North Fork Feather River Project, damming the North Fork of the Feather River and flooding the meadow-filled valley generally known as Nakam Koyo/Big Meadows/Big ...
Kern County Courthouse, Bakersfield, California (completed 1912) A new court house was approved by voters on September 14, 1909, and construction began in July 1910; the construction contract was awarded to Frederick J. Amweg for $340,827.
The California Field Atlas is a 2017 book written and illustrated by Obi Kaufmann.It was published by Heyday Books, a Berkeley-based nonprofit small press.Through passages of nature writing and hundreds of watercolor paintings, the book details California's ecology and geography.
Rogers Field (FAA LID: O05) is a public airport bordering the southwest of the town of Chester, serving Plumas County, California, United States.It has two runways (only one of which is still opened and maintained, however) and is mostly used for general aviation and USFS/CDF access.
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The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.