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06-62364. GNIS feature ID. 0277586. Website. www .rocklin .ca .us. Rocklin is a city in Placer County, California, about 22 miles (35 km) from Sacramento, and about 6.1 miles (9.8 km) northeast of Roseville in the Sacramento metropolitan area. Besides Roseville, it shares borders with Granite Bay, Loomis and Lincoln.
06-14498. GNIS feature ID. 1655912. Website. www .colfax-ca .gov. Colfax (formerly Alden Grove, Alder Grove, Illinoistown, and Upper Corral) is a city in Placer County, California, [4] at the crossroads of Interstate 80 and State Route 174. The population was 1,963 at the 2010 census.
Height above mean sea level. Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance ( height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. In geodesy, it is formalized as orthometric height. The zero level varies in different countries due to different reference points and ...
Kingman Reef high point – less than 7 feet (2 m) [92] Midway Atoll, Sand Island high point – 50 feet (15 m) [92] – The highest point of the U.S. minor outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean. Navassa Island high point – 280 feet (85 m) [91] – The highest point of all the U.S. minor outlying islands.
The Central Valley is a broad, elongated, flat valley that dominates the interior of California. It is 40–60 mi (60–100 km) wide and runs approximately 450 mi (720 km) from north-northwest to south-southeast, inland from and parallel to the Pacific coast of the state. It covers approximately 18,000 sq mi (47,000 km 2 ), [1] about 11% of ...
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 50 highest major summits of California by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) [5] is a city in California, United States. It is the largest populated place and only incorporated city in Inyo County. Bishop is located near the northern end of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert, at an elevation of 4,150 feet (1,260 m). [4] The city was named after Bishop Creek, flowing out of the Sierra ...
Yosemite Valley ( / joʊˈsɛməti / yoh-SEM-ə-tee; Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States. The valley is about 7.5 mi (12.1 km) long and 3,000–3,500 ft (910–1,070 m) deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome ...