Unsourced image removed Image PlantazeWineyards.jpg thumb right Wineyards in Zeta plain Zeta Plain IPA sh z ta pron is a fertile lowland in Montenegro . It stretches from Podgorica in the north to the Skadar Lake in the south. It is the biggest plains area in Montenegro, with an average elevation around convert 40 m abbr on above sea level. Citation needed date May 2010 The name Zeta derives from an early root meaning harvest or grain modern words etva and ito . Citation needed date March 2011 Confusingly, Zeta River flows not through Zeta plain but through another significant valley in Montenegro, Bjelopavli i plain Bjelopavli i . Zeta Plain is one of the most densely populated areas in Montenegro. Golubovci , the capital of Golubovci urban municipality , which encompasses most of the Plain, is the largest settlement. The vineyards of Planta e , a Montenegrin quality wine producer, are situated in the plain, which is ideal for growing Mediterranean fruits and vegetables. Zeta Plain is the site of the Podgorica Airport and the Podgorica Aluminium Plant , which is considered to be the worst pollutant of the Plain. Citation needed date May 2010 References Reflist Geographical regions of Montenegro coord 42 20 N 19 16 E source frwiki display title Category Plains of Montenegro es Llanura de Zeta fr Zeta plaine lt Zetos lyguma no Zetasletten nn Zetasletta ro C mpia Zeta sr sh Zetska ravnica ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A till plain is an extensive flat plain of glacial till that forms when a sheet of ice becomes detached from the main body of a glacier and melts in place depositing the sediment s it carried. A till plain with irregular topography is referred to as a Moraine Ground moraines ground moraine . See also Glacial till plains Ohio See plain article for other types of plains. DEFAULTSORT Till Plain Category Glaciology Category Geomorphology Glaciology stub Geo term stub it Pianoro di till ... more details
Coord 50.908 1.670 display title region GB scale 10000 unreferenced date May 2008 File Ocknell Plain, New Forest geograph.org.uk 123666.jpg thumb right Ocknell Plain Ocknell Plain can be found in the New Forest near Southampton , England . The area was used in World War II for the RAF Stoney Cross Stoney Cross air base and it is now very popular with campers and daytrippers. Campsites in the area include Ocknell and Longbeech. The Rufus Stone can be found about a mile east of Ocknell Plain. The nearest settlements are Minstead and Fritham . External links Commons category Ocknell Plain Category Campsites in the United Kingdom Category New Forest Hampshire geo stub ... more details
Mugan plain Azerbaijani language Azeri Mu an d z , Persian language Persian is a plain in northwestern Iran and the southern part of the Azerbaijan Republic of Azerbaijan . The highest density of irrigation canals is in the section of the Mugan plain which lies in the Republic of Azerbaijan. It is located on the bank of the Aras river extending to Iran. It contains highest density of irrigation canals is in the Mugan plain. ref http www.azembajada.es browse.php?lang eng&page 0101 The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Spain Bot generated title ref See also Arran Caucasus References reflist DEFAULTSORT Mughan Plain Category Geography of Azerbaijan Category Geography of Iran az Mu an d z de Mugansteppe es Mug n fa fr Mughan r gion ka pl Nizina Muga ska ru ... more details
Image Taiwan LanYang River 2.JPG thumb 250px Yilan Plain, a view from the Lanyang River. Yilan Plain zh t , also called as the Lanyang Plain , is a plain area located at Yilan County, Taiwan Yilan County of northeastern Taiwan . The Plain has an alluvial fan which formed by Lanyang River . It was resided by the Kavalan people Kavalan s, an aboriginal group which mostly had migrated to southern places such as Hualien County Hualien and Taitung County Taitung . Topography of Taiwan coord missing Taiwan Category Landforms of Taiwan Category Plains of Taiwan Taiwan geo stub vi ng b ng Nghi Lan zh ... more details
merge Northeastern Plain date November 2011 Songliao Plain zh s t p S ngli o P ngyu n is the part of the Northeastern Plain , located in Manchuria , China . External links http www.unu.edu unupress unupbooks 80349e 80349E02.htm Major land type categories of China Coord missing China Category Plains of China PRC geo stub ... more details
Image European plain.png thumb right 300px The European Plain Image Europe geographique grande.jpg thumb right 300px Topography of Europe The European Plain or Great European Plain is a plain in Europe . It is the largest mountain free landform in Europe, although a number of Highland geography highlands are identified within. It stretches from the Pyrenees Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. ref name Britannica cite web url http www.britannica.com EBchecked topic 196332 European Plain title European Plain date 10 January 2010 work Encyclop dia Britannica publisher britannica.com accessdate 10 January 2010 ref It consists of the North European Plain and the East European Plain . The subdivision is a historical one, rather than geomorphological the East European Plain was part of the European Plain within the Russian Empire and therefore was formerly known as the Russian Plain. In Western Europe, the plain is relatively narrow mostly within 200 miles in the northern part of Europe, but it broadens significantly toward its eastern part in Western Russia. ref name Britannica The plains are cut by many important rivers like the Loire river Loire , Rhine and Vistula in the west the Northern Dvina and Daugava flowing northwards in Eastern Europe and Russia and the Volga , the Don River Russia Don and the Dnieper flowing southwards of the European Russia . See also Geography of Europe References reflist Geography topics Physical geography topics Category Landforms of Europe Category Plains of Europe Category Physiographic divisions ar ca Gran plan ria europea cs Epihercynsk n iny es Gran llanura europea eu Europar ordoki handia fr Grande plaine europ enne ko hi nl Europese Vlakte no Den europeiske slette nn Den europeiske sletta pt Grande plan cie europeia ro C mpia European ru sr sv Stora europeiska sl tten ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2010 Manbij plain lang ar IPA ar s hl m nbid is a vast plain on the eastern Aleppo plateau in northern Syria and southeastern Turkey . The plain runs along the western bank of river Euphrates for approximately 140 km from Nizip to Maskanah , with an average width of 15 30 km. It is located within the Manbij District Manbij and Jarabulus District Jar bulus districts of Aleppo Governorate in Syria, and the Nizip and Karkam districts of Gaziantep Province in Turkey. Borders and description The average elevation of the plain is around 400 m. It gradually slopes up from east to west. The plain can be divded into a northern and southern parts. The northern part extends from Nizip to Manbij . This part is surrounded by the Aintab plateau from north and west. It is traversed from west to east by the Nizip, Merzimen Bozatl , and Sajur rivers. It is inhabited by a Turkmen people Turkmen density in addition to Arab s and other ethnic minorities. The Turkmen call this plain Barak plain after the name of a Turkmen tribe. In Syria it is called the northern Manbij plain. The southern plain extends from Manbij to Maskanah. It is bounded from west by the Dhahab valley and Lake Jabboul . In the south it is joined by the arid steppe of the northern Syrian Desert . Irrigation based agriculture has been practiced in the plain since ancient times. Archeological remains from the paleolithic have been discovered in the Sajur valley. The ancient Zeugma, Commagene Zeugma on the Euphrates is found in the northern end of the plain. See also Aleppo Governorate DEFAULTSORT Manbij Plain Category Aleppo Category Gaziantep Category Geography of Syria Category Geography of Turkey Category Southeastern Anatolia Region Category Physiographic provinces ... more details
File Plain Street Junction geograph.org.uk 390317.jpg thumb Plain Street Plain Street is a road junction near Trelights in Cornwall , England , UK. ref name GM cite map title Maps publisher Google Maps accessdate 19 September 2011 ref References Reflist Cornwall state collapsed coord missing Cornwall Cornwall geo stub Category Transport in Cornwall ... more details
Beebe Plain is a small unincorporated village divided by the Quebec Vermont border, colonized circa 1789 by Zeeba Beebe of Connecticut. A saw mill was established as the town s first business in 1863. By 1869, Beebe Plain had a church, two stores, a post office, a customs post and some houses. The granite industry is the major force in the area s economic history. The Canadian portion of this divided village held the status of incorporated municipality in Quebec prior to 1995. See Stanstead, Quebec Beebe Plain Beebe Plain as part of the municipality of Stanstead, Quebec , Canada Beebe Plain, Vermont Beebe Plain as an unincorporated part of the town of Derby, Vermont , United States of America Canusa Street Quebec Route 247 , the border between the two countries, runs through the middle of the village. coord 45 0.4 N 72 8.47 W type city display title disambiguation ... more details
Enderby Plain also known as Enderby Abyssal Plain or East Abyssal Plain coord 60 S 40 E source GNIS display inline,title is an undersea plain or abyssal plain , located off the coast of Enderby Land and Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica . The name was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names Advisory Committee on Undersea Features in June 1988. ref name gnis This submarine terrain feature is named after the Samuel Enderby & Sons Enderby Brothers , owners of a 19th century whaling company based in London, England . The company sponsored several expeditions to Antarctica in the mid 19th century. See also Enderby Land References Reflist refs ref name gnis cite gnis type antarid id 17159 name Enderby Plain accessdate 2012 03 01 ref usgs gazetteer id 17159 physical oceanography expanded other Category Abyssal plains of the Southern Ocean Category Landforms of Enderby Land Category Landforms of Queen Maud Land marine geo stub ... more details
Image AlluvialPlain.JPG thumb A small, incised alluvial plain from Red Rock Canyon State Park California An alluvial plain is a largely flat landform created by the deposition of sediment over a long period of time by one or more rivers coming from highland regions, from which Alluvium alluvial soil forms. A floodplain is part of the process, being the smaller area over which the rivers flood at a particular period of time, whereas the alluvial plain is the larger area representing the region over which the floodplains have shifted over geological time. As the highlands erosion erode due to weathering and water flow, the sediment from the hills is sediment transport transported to the lower plain . Various stream creek s will carry the water further to a river, lake , bay , or ocean . As the sediments are deposited during flood conditions in the floodplain of a creek, the elevation of the floodplain will be raised. As this reduces the channel floodwater capacity, the creek will, over time, seek new, lower paths, forming a meander a curving sinuous path . The leftover higher locations ... not support soil holding grasses. These processes, over geologic time, will form the plain, a region ... , maintained by the National Cooperative Soil Survey, which states that an alluvial plain is a large ... of North America Use of alluvial plain as a general, informal term for a broad flood plain or a low gradient delta is explicitly discouraged. The NCSS glossary instead suggests flood plain . ref ftp ... Alluvial Plain Mississippi River alluvial plain ref http tapestry.usgs.gov features 45mississippi.html Mississippi River alluvial plain ref Oxnard Plain , Ventura County, California Po valley Padan plain , Italy . Punjab region Punjab alluvial plain ref http www.britannica.com eb article 9061915 Punjab Plain Punjab Plain , Encyclop dia Britannica ref Laguna de Santa Rosa Christchurch , New Zealand ... References reflist Commons category Alluvial plain Category Fluvial landforms Category Plains Category ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Infobox UK place country England latitude 50.89714 longitude 1.02876 official name Hart Plain population 9,462 population ref 2001 Census shire district Havant borough Havant shire county Hampshire region South East England constituency westminster Meon Valley UK Parliament constituency Meon Valley post town postcode district postcode area dial code os grid reference SU684113 hide services true Hart Plain is part of Waterlooville and is the north western most ward politics ward in the Havant borough borough of Havant . The population of Hart Plain is 8755 and makes up 7.3 of Havant borough s population . The ward takes its name from the old Hart Plain House which formerly stood on the site now occupied by Waterlooville Health Centre. The ward consists mainly of post 1950 s housing and includes Portsmouth City Council s Wecock Estate. There is one school in the hart plain village, Hart Plain junior School, located next to the cowplain community school down hart plain avenue. Category Villages in Hampshire Category Havant Hampshire geo stub Havant pl Hart Plain ... more details
Image MolongloRiver1920.jpg thumb right Molonglo River circa 1920s The Molonglo Plain generally refers to the flood plain of the Molonglo River and specifically the one located in the Australian Capital Territory that was inundated during the mid 1960s in order to create Lake Burley Griffin . This plain was one of fours plains the Ginninderra Ginninderra Plain , the Limestone Plain, and the Tuggeranong Tuggeranong Plain Isabella s Plain are the others, upon which the city of Canberra, Australia Canberra is situated. The term Molonglo Plains refers collectively to the flood plains along the entire length of the Molonglo River , including the flood plain located north east of Queanbeyan on the Molonglo River. The upper Molonglo Plain sometimes referred to as the Hoskinstown Plain is bordered to the east by the low ridges of the Turallo Range, Forbes Creek Ridge and Thurralilly Hill before the steep rise up to the top of the Great Dividing Range. Upper Molonglo Plain Some of the Queanbeyan district s most successful rural stations specifically Gidleigh , Foxlow , Carwoola and Primrose Valley were located on the Molonglo flood plain. Foxlow was established by HC Antill who relinquished the grant to J Hoskins after whom the village of Hoskinstown is named. Lower Molonglo Plain Prior to Lake Burley Griffin s inception the fertile soils of the Molonglo plain were some of most productive in the Canberra region. John Joshua Moore was the first pastoralist to occupy land on the present site of Canberra, preceding Robert Campbell by about a year. It was, however, only an outstation formed ..., of Civic Centre and of the Australian National University and the portions of the Molonglo Plain ... buildings situated on the former Molonglo Plain, only Blundell s Cottage Blundells cottage remains ... River. A number of others building situated near to or on the Molonglo Plain have been ... soil and other water borne nutrients onto the plain. The Googong Dam was constructed in 1979 on the Queanbeyan ... more details
Mil plain is a plain in Azerbaijan . It is located on the bank of the Aras river and extends to Iran . ref http www.azembajada.es browse.php?lang eng&page 0101 The Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Spain Bot generated title ref See also Arran Republic of Azerbaijan Arran References reflist Category Geography of Azerbaijan ... more details
Amundsen Plain Coord 65 0 S 125 0 W display inline,title is an undersea abyssal plain named in association with Amundsen Coast . The name was approved by the Advisory Committee on Undersea Features in June 1988. References usgs gazetteer id 17184 Category Abyssal plains of the Southern Ocean marine geo stub ru ... more details
Mary Plain is a bear character in British children s literature who features in a series of novels based ... appeared in the book Mostly Mary in 1930. The last original book, Mary Plain s Whodunnit , was published ... and All Mary were published in the 1990s. Characters and story Mary Plain and her bear family feature ... and 1970s. Radio and television adaptations Mary Plain stories were read on the BBC Radio Children ... with actor Richard Wattis reading the books. ref http www.imdb.com name nm2208170 Mary Plain at the Internet ... col E ref 1935 Mary Plain in Town ref Mary Plain on Holiday, told by Uncle Mac Mac was broadcast on BBC ... , Monday, Feb 17, 1936 pg. 23 Issue 47300 col C ref 1937 Mary Plain on Holiday ref Mary Plain ... Mary Plain in Trouble 1942 Mary Plain in War Time ref Mary Plain in War Time was re issued in the early 1950s as Mary Plain Lends a Paw . ref 1944 Mary Plain s Big Adventure 1949 Mary Plain Home Again 1950 Mary Plain to the Rescue 1951 Mary Plain, V.I.P. 1952 Mary Plain and the Twins 1954 Mary Plain Goes Bob a Jobbing 1957 Mary Plain Goes to America 1965 Mary Plain s Whodunit too much detail for encyclopaedia entry Mary Plain books held by the British Library, in alphabetical order All Mary ... Owl Man, 1995. ISBN 1900186004 Mary Plain and the Twins ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. Routledge & Kegan Paul London, 1952. Mary Plain and the twins, illustrated by Janina Ede. Leicester Knight Books, 1970. Series A red knight book . ISBN 0340039981 pbk Mary Plain goes bob a jobbing ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. Routledge & Kegan Paul London, 1954. Mary Plain goes to America ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. Routledge & Kegan Paul London, 1957. Mary Plain goes ... 034014906X pbk Mary Plain Home Again ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. Routledge & Kegan Paul London, 1949 1948. Mary Plain in Town ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. Cobden Sanderson London, 1935. Mary Plain in Trouble ... With illustrations by Irene Williamson. G. Routledge & Sons ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 Songnen Plain Zh c p S ngn n P ngyu n is a plain in Manchuria . Named after the Songhua River Songhua and Nenjiang River s, it is connected to the Sanjiang Plain through the Songhua River Valley a small plain lies north of Xingkai Lake in the east. Coord missing China Category Plains of China PRC geo stub de Songnen Ebene ja pl Songnen Pingyuan vi ng b ng T ng N n zh ... more details
The Sentinel Plain is an extensive northwest southeast trending plain south of the Gila River Valley in southwestern Arizona , USA. It is centered on the community of Sentinel, Arizona located on Interstate 8 in Arizona Interstate 8 , approximately convert 35 mi km 0 west of Gila Bend, Arizona Gila Bend . The Sentinel Plain is about convert 40 mi km 0 long and on the north northwest, it borders the Hyder Valley and the farming community of Hyder, Arizona Hyder on the Gila River . To the northeast is Painted Rock Reservoir and the Painted Rock Mountains . The south and southwest of the Sentinel Plain is bordered by the Crater Range the east and southeast is bordered by the White Hills, Arizona White Hills , and the Saucedo Mountains . Midway Wash drains into the center of the plain southeast northwesterly, but disappears into the ground about 10 miles southeast from the Gila River. The west and southwestern border of the plain contains the northwest flowing Tenmile Wash which also succumbs to ground disappearance, but adjacent to the Gila , and the northwest trending Crater Range. See also Sentinel Plain volcanic field Coord 32.9458808 113.2579621 display title Arizona geo stub Category Plains of Arizona Category Landforms of Maricopa County, Arizona Category Landforms of Yuma County, Arizona ... more details
Plain English sometimes referred to more broadly as plain language is a generic term for communication ... smartboard shop gowerse complete chap1.htm Prologue . The Complete Plain Words . ref Gowers guide was published as a slim paperback The Complete Plain Words Plain Words, a guide to the use of English in 1948, followed by a sequel The Complete Plain Words The ABC of Plain Words in 1951 and, in 1954, a hardback book combining the best of both, The Complete Plain Words which has never ... A digression on legal English . The Complete Plain Words . ref However, there is a trend toward ... 1999 Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts regulations mandate plain and intelligible language ..., Plain English Campaign has been campaigning since 1979, against gobbledygook , jargon and misleading ... London bombings 2005 London bombings recommended that emergency services should always use plain ... title 7 7 inquests emergency services should use plain English first Duncan last Gardham url http www.telegraph.co.uk ... plain English.html newspaper The Telegraph date 10 March 2011 accessdate 6 August 2011 ref United States In the US the plain language movement in government communication started in the 1970s. The Paperwork ... http www.plain writing association.org plain writing background legislative history.htm Background Plain Writing Legislative History, 2007 2010 , 2010, Irwin Berent, Plain Writing Association ref and in 1978 ... . http www.plainlanguage.gov whatisPL history locke.cfm A history of plain language in the United States Government . PlainLanguage.gov . Plain Language Action and Information Network. ref ref name plainwriting Many agencies now have long standing policies mandating plain language, ref name plain http www.plainlanguage.gov plLaw fedGovt index.cfm Plain Writing Act of 2010 Plain Language in Federal Agencies , plainlanguage.gov ref and in 2010 this was made a federal requirement with the Plain Writing Act . ref http abcnews.go.com WN obama signs law understand story?id 11902841 Obama Signs Plain ... more details
File Okeechobee Plain location map.png right 200px thumb Depiction of location of Okeechobee Plain according to the FL EPA The Okeechobee Plain is a major geologic feature of Florida formed during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs and named for Okeechobee County, Florida , United States . Description The Okeechobee Plain is a dry prairie or grassland ref http crocdoc.ifas.ufl.edu publications msrpmap dryprairie University of Florida, The Croc Docs, Dry Prairie. ref located directly north of Lake Okeechobee and is present in the counties of Highlands County, Florida Highlands eastern , Glades County, Florida Glades northeastern , Indian River County, Florida Indian River western and Okeechobee where it is present along the western bank of the Kissimmee River . ref http tlhdwf2.dep.state.fl.us basin411 lake o status Fig2 2.pdf Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Basin Status Report Lake Okeechobee, Hydrologic Setting. ref The Okeechobee Plain is within the Kissimmee Okeechobee Lowland established by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection s Lake Bioassessment Regionalization Initiative. ref http www.epa.gov wed pages ecoregions fl eco.htm US Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division. ref Origin The Okeechobee Plain was created during the Pliocene and Pleistocene s wild climatic times through continuous depositing of sediment s from rivers as the peninsula grew southward. During the Piacenzian 3.6 2.5 Ma stage of the Pliocene the plain, was for the most part, submerged and is referred to as part of the Kissimmee Embayment . ref Petuch, Edward J., Cenozoic seas the view from eastern North America, CRC Press, 2005 ref Bounding geographic features The two major geographic features bounding the Okeechobee Plain are the Osceola Plain to the north and Caloosahatchee Incline to the southwest. small Florida EPA Basin Status small Also see DeSoto Plain References reflist Category Natural history of Florida ... more details
File Plain bread.JPG thumb right Slices of plain bread A plain loaf , slices of which are known in Scots Language Scots as plain breid pronounced IPA sco plen brid , is a traditional style of loaf made chiefly in Scotland . It has a dark, well fired crust on the top and bottom of the bread. ref name CSD cite book last Robinson first Mairi title The Concise Scots Dictionary year 1985 publisher Aberdeen University Press isbn 0080284922 pages 500 ref There is no crust on the sides due to the unbaked loaves being stuck together in batches, ref name CSD baked together then torn into individual loaves afterwards. This style of bread does not fit well in most modern toasters due to the greater height of the loaf. This was once the more widely available style of loaf in comparison to the now more common pan loaf . ref name CSD References Reflist External links British bread bread stub Category Scottish cuisine Category British breads Category Yeast breads sco Plain laif ... more details
Moldavian Plateau Moldavian Plain lang ro C mpia Moldovei is a geographic area in the north west of Moldova and north east of Romania , one of the six compenents of the Moldavian Plateau . Despite the name, Moldavian Plain is not flat, but a region dotted with hills, part of the Moldavian Plateau. Moldavian Plain is situate in the center north part of the Moldavian Plateau. It has elevations of cca. 200 m, and is composed of Jijia Plain , west of the river Prut, Middle Prut Valley , or Middle Prut Plain, east of the river Prut, creeks tributary to the Prut, 2,930 km sup 2 sup B l i Steppe , or R ut Plain, east of the river Prut, creeks tributary to the Dniester, 1,920 km sup 2 sup In Moldova, B l i steppe, 1,920 km sup 2 sup , and Middle Prut Valley , 2,930 km sup 2 sup are sometimes together referred to as Moldavian Plain, however one should be warned that in Romania the term Moldavian Plain is used as a synonym for the Jijia Plain . Before 1940 the term used to mean Jijia Plain plus Middle Prut Valley, plus B l i steppe, because the three regions have an identical relief and natural vegetation. To make the things even more complicated, in Moldova sometimes B l i steppe and Middle Prut Valley are lumped together into one term, B l i steppe. Moldavian Plain is surrounded from all sides by hills Suceava Plateau to the west, NW, and SW, Niester Hills to the north and east, Ciuluc Solone Hills and Corne ti Hills to the south and south est. These hills are characterized by deep gorges, and the term plain is employed to denote the fact that the area in between the hill formations is visibly narrower and less jagged. The Plain is traversed from north to south by the Prut River , which splits them roughly in half. In the south of the western part lies the valley of the Jijia River , a tributary of the Prut. The eastern end of the plains, the B l i Plain, contains ..., the Moldavian Plain since the beginning of the 20th century has specialized in livestock cows, sheep ... more details
Infobox settlement official name Plain, Wisconsin settlement type Village nickname motto Images image ... 250px map caption Location of Plain, Wisconsin image map1 mapsize1 map caption1 Location subdivision ... taken Sept 9, 2007 Image Barn and box.jpg thumb Tim Thering Octagon Barn Plain Wisconsin Octagon Barn and owner s mailbox near Plain, Wisconsin Image PlainCatholicChurch.jpg thumb right St. Luke s Catholic Church Image PlainWisconsinSign.jpg thumb right Looking south at Plain on Wisconsin Highway 23 Image PlainWisconsinDowntown1.jpg thumb right Looking south at downtown Plain on Highway 23 Image PlainWisconsinDowntown2.jpg thumb right Looking east at the residential area of PlainPlain is a village ... census. Geography Plain is located at coord 43 16 39 N 90 2 40 W type city 43.277580, 90.044563 ... miles 1.9 km , all of it land. History The village of Plain is located on Wisconsin Highway 23 in the Town of Franklin, Sauk County, Wisconsin Franklin . The area of Plain was originally known ... with the Kraemer Kr mer family from Irlach, Bavaria, Germany, who settled in Plain, Wisconsin, in 1867 ... at Plain in 1860, and Plain formally became a village in 1912. ref Hildegarde Thering, A History of Plain, Wisconsin Plain, Wisconsin privately published, 1982 ref The origin of the village s name ... Plain, in Salzburg, Austria . There are, however, no known documents, newspaper articles or books of the time ... Baraboo and Other Place Names in Sauk County, Wisconsin written in 1912, the same year that Plain was incorporated it says of Plain that it was called Plain because the inhabitants were plain people ... of his desire to have Plain re christened, as the town had expanded and improved so much over the past three years that it had outgrown the plain ness of its name. In the letter, the author wrote Within a few weeks very strong efforts will be made at proper headquarters to have the name of Plain changed ... to the word Plain, as it is an adjective we must have at least a noun and why not put a ville ... more details
The Cumberland Plain is a region in the Sydney Basin of New South Wales , Australia . The plain extends from 10 kilometres north of Windsor, New South Wales Windsor in the north, to Picton, New South Wales Picton in the south and from the Nepean Hawkesbury River in the west almost to Sydney City s Inner West Sydney Inner West in the east. Much of the Sydney metropolitan area is located on the Plain. The plain takes its name from Cumberland County, New South Wales Cumberland County , in which it is situated, one of the Cadastral divisions of Australia cadastral land divisions of New South Wales ... JPYbwptLTR Geographical Names Board of NSW ref Geography The Cumberland Plain is located within the local ..., Parramatta and Cooks River Cooks rivers run through parts of the plain. Geology The area lies on Triassic ... SydneyBasin Subregions.htm ref Ecology At the time of European settlement, the Cumberland Plain contained 1,070 km of woodlands and forests. The westward expansion of Sydney over the plain ..., most of the ecological communities that originally flourished on the plain are now considered endangered. They include Cumberland Plain woodland Shale sandstone transition forest Sydney coastal river ... forest Moist shale woodland Shale gravel transition forest Cumberland Plain Woodland, of which ... this status. Cumberland Plain communities are protected in a number of council reserves, plus ... http www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au npws.nsf Content Map of the Cumberland Plain New South Wales Government Department of Environment and Conservation Map of the Cumberland Plain http www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au npws.nsf Content Endangered ecological communities of the Cumberland Plain New South Wales ... Plain http www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au mount annan botanic garden Botanic Gardens Trust Mount Anna ... Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage Cumberland Plain Woodland Woodlands ... geo stub fr Plaine de Cumberland id Cumberland Plain no Cumberland Plain ... more details
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