Shady Rest Trailer and Recreational Vehicle Park
District of Bishop
California - United States

Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek, California

Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 2,645 at the 2010 census, down from 2,702 at the 2000 census.

Located at 37.3833, -118.417 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Census-designated places in Inyo County, California

Mesa, California

Mesa is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 251 at the 2010 census, up from 214 at the 2000 census.

Located at 37.4217, -118.544 (Lat. / Lng.), about 9 miles away.
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Census-designated places in Inyo County, California

Wilkerson, California

Wilkerson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States. The population was 563 at the 2010 census, up from 562 at the 2000 census.

Located at 37.2794, -118.388 (Lat. / Lng.), about 6 miles away.
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Census-designated places in Inyo County, California

Edwards Air Force Base

Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located approximately 22 miles northeast of Lancaster, California. It is the home of the Air Force Flight Test Center and is the Air Force Materiel Command center of excellence for conducting and supporting research and developmental flight test and evaluation of aerospace systems from concept to combat. It operates the U.S.

Located at 37.3731, -118.364 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Bishop Tuff

The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff that formed 767,100 ± 900 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the eruption that created the Long Valley Caldera. Large outcrops of the tuff are located in Inyo and Mono Counties, California, United States.

Located at 37.5, -118.5 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory

Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (USA) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra Nevada approximately 350 kilometers north of Los Angeles and 20 kilometers southeast of Bishop. It was established in 1958, and is owned and operated by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). One of the ten dish antennas of the Very Long Baseline Array is immediately adjacent to, but not part of, the observatory.

Located at 37.2339, -118.282 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Fish Slough Area of Critical Environmental Concern

The Fish Slough Area of Critical Environmental Concern is a Slough located near Bishop, California on the western side of the Chalfant Valley. Its 36,000 acres were designated as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) in 1982. The ACEC is an oasis in the middle of the otherwise arid volcanic tableland.

Located at 37.4691, -118.401 (Lat. / Lng.), about 7 miles away.
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Laws, California

Laws (formerly, Station and Bishop Depot) is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. Laws is located 4 miles northeast of Bishop on U.S. Route 6, towards the Nevada state line.

Located at 37.4008, -118.346 (Lat. / Lng.), about 4 miles away.
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Eastern Sierra Regional Airport

Eastern Sierra Regional Airport is a public-use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) east of the central business district of Bishop, in Inyo County, California, United States. It is owned by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Public Works and operated by Inyo County.

Located at 37.3731, -118.364 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Bishop Union High School

Bishop Union High School (BUHS) is a secondary school in Bishop, California. It is part of the Bishop Unified School District. The school is located at 301 North Fowler Street. The current principal is Allen Van Velzen and the vice principal is David Kalk. The superintendent is Barry Simpson. There are currently thirty-nine teachers at the high school. Classes at the school run from 7:59 am to 2:15 pm on Mondays and 7:59 am to 3:00 pm Tuesdays through Fridays.

Located at 37.3633, -118.4 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Owens Valley Solar Array

The Owens Valley Solar Array (OVSA) is an astronomical radio telescope array with main interests in studying the physics of the Sun. The instruments of the observatory are designed and employed specifically for studying the activities and phenomena of our solar system's sun. Other solar dedicated instruments operated on the site include the Solar Radio Burst Locator (SRBL), the FASR Subsystem Testbed (FST), and the Korean SRBL (KSRBL).

Located at 37.2317, -118.293 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Astronomical observatories in California, Buildings and structures in Inyo County, California

KBOV

KBOV is a radio station broadcasting a classic hits format to the Bishop, California, USA area. The station is currently owned by Great Country Broadcasting, Inc. and features programing from ABC Radio. Signed on in 1953 as KIBS. Was only radio station in Bishop until it launched KIBS-FM in 1967. FM failed and went dark in 1969. Resurrected under the ownership of former KIBS DJ Roy Mayhugh in 1974 as KIOQ.

Located at 37.3456, -118.395 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Bishop Paiute Tribe

The Bishop Paiute Tribe, formerly known as the Paiute-Shoshone Indians of the Bishop Community of the Bishop Colony is a federally recognized tribe of Northern Paiute and Timbisha Indians of the Owens Valley, in Inyo County of eastern California.

Located at 37.3661, -118.423 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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1986 Chalfant Valley earthquake

The 1986 Chalfant Valley earthquake struck the southern Mono County and surrounding incorporated and unincorporated of the Bishop - Chalfant Valley, California areas at 7:42 a.m.. The magnitude 6.2 earthquake was felt as far distant as Salt Lake City, Utah. The earthquake was felt in some counties in southern California. Its epicenter was in Chalfant Valley at a depth of 0.8 kilometers . Many small landslides and spectacular rockfalls occurred in the epicentral area.

Located at 37.53, -118.44 (Lat. / Lng.), about 12 miles away.
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OVRO 40 meter Telescope

The OVRO 40 meter Telescope is part of the Owens Valley Radio Observatory located near Big Pine, California, USA. The telescope was dedicated in 1968 and since then it has been used to conduct interferometric observations along with the other telescopes in the observatory, as a Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) station and as a single dish instrument. Its main focus today is on the monitoring of blazars.

Located at 37.2333, -118.284 (Lat. / Lng.), about 11 miles away.
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Radio telescopes, Astronomical observatories in California, Buildings and structures in Inyo County, California