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  2. Beale Air Force Base - Wikipedia

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    The base is named for Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1822–1893), an American Navy Lieutenant and a Brigadier General in the California Militia who was an explorer and frontiersman in California. Beale Air Force Base covers nearly 23,000 acres (93 km 2) of rolling hills in northern California. It is a large base in terms of land and has five gates ...

  3. Roseville, California - Wikipedia

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    Roseville is the most populous city in Placer County, California, located within the Sacramento metropolitan area.As of 2019, the US Census Bureau estimated the city's population to be 141,500, making it the third-largest city in the Sacramento area. [7]

  4. Mad River (California) - Wikipedia

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    The Mad River (Wiyot: Baduwa't [4]) is a river in upper Northern California.It flows for 113 miles (182 km) [3] in a roughly northwest direction through Trinity County and then Humboldt County, draining a 497-square-mile (1,290 km 2) watershed into the Pacific Ocean north of the town of Arcata near [California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport [5]] in McKinleyville.

  5. Sierra City, California - Wikipedia

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    Historic buildings that remain in Sierra City, all on the town's main street, which is Highway 49, include the two-story brick Busch Building, which the Wells Fargo Company occupied in the 19th century, the Masonic Lodge #164, and the Old Sierra City Hotel, built in 1886 by John G. Rose, which was known as the Capitol Hotel and housed local miners and offered meals and lodging for 25 cents each.

  6. Three Rivers, California - Wikipedia

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    Three Rivers is an unincorporated community in Tulare County, California, United States.Located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at the edge of the San Joaquin Valley, the town is near the entrance to the national parks of Sequoia and Kings Canyon.

  7. Apple Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    The commercial area is split currently between State Route 18 and Bear Valley Road (the two roads are near parallel until they intersect in the east, outside of town). The Mojave River that borders the west side of Apple Valley flows south-to-north. [13] The town is bounded on its southern edge by the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains.

  8. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California - Wikipedia

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    Carmel-by-the-Sea (/ k ɑːr ˈ m ɛ l /), [8] commonly known simply as Carmel, is a town in Monterey County, California, located on the Central Coast of California.As of the 2020 census, the town had a total population of 3,220, down from 3,722 at the 2010 census.

  9. List of cities and towns in the San Francisco Bay Area

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    The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a metropolitan region surrounding the San Francisco Bay estuaries in Northern California. According to the 2010 United States Census , the region has over 7.1 million inhabitants and approximately 6,900 square miles (18,000 km 2 ) of land. [ 1 ]