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Alturas, California

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Alturas (formerly, Dorris Bridge, Dorris' Bridge, and Dorrisville) is a city in and the county seat of Modoc County, California, United States. [1]

70 relations: Achomawi, Adin, California, Alturas Indian Rancheria, Alturas Municipal Airport, Area code 530, Bureau of Land Management, California, California Highway Patrol, California State Legislature, California State Route 299, Cedarville, California, Census, Concurrency (road), County seat, Department of Motor Vehicles, Domestic partnership, Ernest S. Brown, Family (US Census), Federal Information Processing Standards, Fire balloon, General aviation, Geographic Names Information System, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Humid continental climate, John E. Raker, John Force Racing, Kayte Christensen, Köppen climate classification, Lake County Railroad, Lake County, Oregon, Lakeview, Oregon, List of cities and towns in California, List of counties in California, List of sovereign states, Local Agency Formation Commission, Marriage, Modoc County Historical Museum, Modoc County, California, Modoc National Forest, Modoc National Wildlife Refuge, Modoc Plateau, Municipal corporation, National Hot Rod Association, North American Numbering Plan, Pacific Time Zone, Per capita income, Pit River, Population density, POSSLQ, Poverty threshold, ..., Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Raker Act, Redding, California, Reno, Nevada, Robert Hight, Susanville, California, U.S. Route 395 in California, U.S. state, Union Pacific Railroad, United States, United States Census Bureau, United States House of Representatives, United States Postal Service, Warner Mountains, Western Regional Climate Center, Wetland, Wild rice, Women's National Basketball Association, ZIP Code, 2010 United States Census. Expand index (20 more) »

Achomawi

Achomawi (also Achumawi, Ajumawi and Ahjumawi), are the northerly nine (out of eleven) tribes of the Pit River tribe of Native Americans who live in what is now northeastern California in the United States.

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Adin, California

Adin (formerly, Adinville and Aidenville) is a census-designated place in Modoc County, California.

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Alturas Indian Rancheria

The Alturas Indian Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe of Achomawi Indians in California.

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Alturas Municipal Airport

Alturas Municipal Airport, is a city-owned public-use airport located one nautical mile (1.85 km) west of the central business district of Alturas, a city in Modoc County, California, United States.

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Area code 530

Area code 530 is a California telephone area code in northeastern and Northern California.

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Bureau of Land Management

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Highway Patrol

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is the highway patrol agency for the state of California and has jurisdiction anywhere in the state.

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California State Legislature

The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California.

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California State Route 299

State Route 299 (SR 299) is a state highway in the state of California that runs across the northern part of the state.

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Cedarville, California

Cedarville (formerly, Surprise Valley and Deep Creek) is a census-designated place located east of Alturas, at an elevation of, in Modoc County, California.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Concurrency (road)

A concurrency in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Department of Motor Vehicles

In the United States, a department of motor vehicles (DMV) is a state-level government agency that administers vehicle registration and driver licensing.

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Domestic partnership

A domestic partnership is an interpersonal relationship between two individuals who live together and share a common domestic life but are not married (to each other or to anyone else), but they receive a lot of benefits that guarantee rights of survivor ship, hospital visitation and others.

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Ernest S. Brown

Ernest S. Brown (September 25, 1903July 23, 1965) served briefly as a United States Senator from Nevada in 1954.

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Family (US Census)

A family is defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes as "a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such people (including related subfamily members) are considered as members of one family." A family household is more inclusive, consisting of "a household maintained by a householder who is in a family (as defined above), and includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may be residing there." In 2014 the US Census Bureau began including same-sex marriages in their counts of families and family households.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Fire balloon

A, or, was a weapon launched by Japan during World War II.

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General aviation

General aviation (GA) is all civil aviation operations other than scheduled air services and non-scheduled air transport operations for remuneration or hire.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, which is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

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John E. Raker

John Edward Raker (February 22, 1863 – January 22, 1926) was a Democratic Party Congressional representative for California.

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John Force Racing

John Force Racing is an NHRA drag racing team.

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Kayte Christensen

Kayte Lauren Christensen (born November 16, 1980) is an American color commentator and former professional Women's National Basketball Association player.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Lake County Railroad

The Lake County Railroad, based in Lakeview, Oregon, United States, is owned by the Lake County government and operated by Frontier Rail as the Lake County Railway (LCY).

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Lake County, Oregon

Lake County is a county in the south-central region of the U.S. state of Oregon.

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Lakeview, Oregon

Lakeview is a town in Lake County, Oregon, United States.

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List of cities and towns in California

California is a state located in the Western United States.

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List of counties in California

The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Local Agency Formation Commission

Local Agency Formation Commissions or LAFCOs are regional service planning agencies of the State of California.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Modoc County Historical Museum

The Modoc County Historical Museum is a history museum located in Alturas, California, in the United States.

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Modoc County, California

Modoc County is a county in the far northeast corner of the U.S. state of California.

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Modoc National Forest

The Modoc National Forest is a national forest in northeastern California.

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Modoc National Wildlife Refuge

Modoc National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in northeastern California.

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Modoc Plateau

The Modoc Plateau lies in the northeast corner of California as well as parts of Oregon and Nevada.

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Municipal corporation

A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs.

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National Hot Rod Association

The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) is a drag racing governing body, which sets rules in drag racing and hosts events all over the United States and Canada.

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North American Numbering Plan

The North American Numbering Plan (NANP) is a telephone numbering plan that encompasses 25 distinct regions in twenty countries primarily in North America, including the Caribbean and the U.S. territories.

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Pacific Time Zone

The Pacific Time Zone (PT) is a time zone encompassing parts of western Canada, the western United States, and western Mexico.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Pit River

The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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POSSLQ

POSSLQ (plural POSSLQs) is an abbreviation (or acronym) for "person of opposite sex sharing living quarters", a term coined in the late 1970s by the United States Census Bureau as part of an effort to more accurately gauge the prevalence of cohabitation in American households.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Raker Act

The Raker Act was an act of the United States Congress that permitted building of the O'Shaughnessy Dam and flooding of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, California.

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Redding, California

Redding, officially the City of Redding, is the county seat of Shasta County, California, in the northern part of the state.

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Reno, Nevada

Reno is a city in the U.S. state of Nevada, located in the western part of the state, approximately from Lake Tahoe.

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Robert Hight

Robert "Top Gun" Hight (born August 20, 1969) is an NHRA drag racer and president of John Force Racing, and driver of the Auto Club of Southern California Chevrolet Camaro SS Funny Car.

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Susanville, California

Susanville (formerly known as Rooptown) is the county seat of Lassen County, California, United States.

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U.S. Route 395 in California

In the U.S. state of California, U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a route which traverses from Interstate 15 near the southern city limits of Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Union Pacific Railroad

The Union Pacific Railroad (or Union Pacific Railroad Company and simply Union Pacific) is a freight hauling railroad that operates 8,500 locomotives over 32,100 route-miles in 23 states west of Chicago and New Orleans.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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Warner Mountains

The Warner Mountains are an -long mountain range running north–south through northeastern California and extending into southern Oregon in the United States.

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Western Regional Climate Center

The Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC) is a climate research center serving the Western United States.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Wild rice

Wild rice (Ojibwe: Manoomin, Sanskrit: 'नीवार', IAST:; also called Canada rice, Indian rice, and water oats) are four species of grasses forming the genus Zizania, and the grain that can be harvested from them.

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Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league in the United States.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alturas,_California

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