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Whitney organized the first comprehensive survey of California, and the first complete topographic maps of the state were completed under him. Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in California is named after him. The State Mining Bureau was established in 1880, and the position of State Geologist was changed to State Mineralogist.
Ellice Swamp is a large woodlot in Perth County, Ontario. [2] The swamp covers approximately 856 hectares (2,120 acres). It is located between Stratford and Milverton in the northeastern portion of the Thames River Watershed, between the North Branch of the Thames and the Nith River .
Lake Corcoran (also known as Lake Clyde, after Clyde Wahrhaftig, an American geologist [1]) was an ancient lake that covered the Central Valley of California. Central Valley map. The lake existed in the valleys of the Sacramento River and the San Joaquin River, [2] at least as far north as the Sutter Buttes. [3]
A large cedar swamp was located in the townships of Ellice, Logan, McKillop, terminating in Hullett. The largest area is known as the Ellice Swamp and the Gads Hill Swamp. Both are located between Milverton and Stratford Ontario. Ellice Swamp is 2,504 acres (1,013 ha). Gad Hill Swamp is 1,741 acres (705 ha).
Before 1768: An enlargeable territorial map of California tribal groups and languages prior to European contact within the modern day borders. Before 1768: An enlargeable map of the world showing the dividing lines for; Pope Alexander VI's Inter caetera papal bull (1493), the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494), and the Treaty of Saragossa (1529).
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California.
[7]: 139 The Swamp Land Act of 1850 gave states the ability to purchase federally-owned "swamp and overflowed public lands" on the condition that they be reclaimed and put to productive use; [7]: 185 in 1855, California's state legislature passed an act allowing citizens to purchase tracts of swampland for $1 per acre (equivalent to $25.00 in ...
Ellice (electoral district), a former provincial electoral division in the province of Manitoba; Ellice River, former name of Kuunajuk, Nunavut, Canada; Ellice Swamp, Ontario, Canada; Fort Ellice, a Hudson's Bay Company post; Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands (named so after British merchant and politician Edward Ellice the Elder)