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On April 5, 1776, the de Anza Expedition called the area El Cañada de San Vicente. [4] The 1956 Thomas Brothers map spells it San Antone. This spelling mimics the way it is pronounced in common, modern usage by locals. It was spelled San Antone on the 1924 "Mount Boardman, California" U.S. Geological Survey 15-minute quadrangle. [5] [6]: 1–2
Giant California Bay Laurel near Permanente Creek in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The State's tallest and third largest California bay laurel tree (Umbellularia californica), estimated to be over 200 years old, grows in Rancho San Antonio County Park. The tree was protected in 2004 with the addition of fencing and by the removal of a nearby ...
County Route S1 (CR S1), also known as Sunrise Highway for a portion of its length, is a 34.08 mi (54.85 km) long county highway located entirely in San Diego County, California, United States. It begins at State Route 94 near Barrett and moves northward across Interstate 8, just west of the Laguna Summit.
The proposed freeway's path west of San Antonio Valley Road would have bypassed Mount Hamilton either to the north toward State Route 237 or to the south toward San Jose's Evergreen district. The feasibility of the project came into question, however, as constructing a freeway over the Diablo Range near three of its highest peaks (Mount ...
The San Antonio Dam was built between 1952 and 1956 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide flood control. In recent years, the lower watershed has become much more urbanized, and the headwaters region is mainly used for recreation, summer hiking and camping, and winter skiing at the Mount Baldy Ski Lifts area.
The creek originates about 10 miles (16 km) east of Los Alamos in the Solomon Hills.It flows westerly from the hills, through the Los Alamos Valley, the Barka Slough, and the San Antonio Valley, to its river mouth north of Purisima Point on the Pacific coast.
County Route E2 (CR E2) is a county highway in Sacramento and Placer counties in the U.S. state of California. It is a major north–south arterial thoroughfare running from State Route 99 in Elk Grove to Interstate 80 in Roseville. The route is known as Grant Line Road, Sunrise Boulevard, Sunrise Avenue and a small portion of Douglas Boulevard.
A notable accident in 2003 involved a pickup truck driven by an unlicensed driver leaving the roadway and plunging into the California Aqueduct, killing four occupants of the vehicle and leaving the sole survivor quadriplegic. [2] The State of California paid a $10 million settlement to the victims' family. [3]