Limekiln Canyon

Limekiln Canyon is a valley in Santa Clara County, California and has an elevation of 630 feet. Limekiln Canyon is situated nearby to the locality Rinconada, as well as near the hamlet Lexington Hills.

Places of Interest

Highlights include New Museum Los Gatos and Forbes Mill.

New Museum Los Gatos

Museum

Photo: Victoriaahalll, CC BY-SA 4.0.

New Museum Los Gatos, formerly the Museums of Los Gatos founded in 1965, is a public non-profit art and history museum located in the Civic Center Plaza in downtown Los Gatos, California. NUMU has over 4000 visitors a year. New Museum Los Gatos is situated 1½ miles north of Limekiln Canyon.

Forbes Mill

Museum

Photo: David Sawyer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Forbes Mill is a now-defunct flour mill originally built in 1854 located in Los Gatos, California, which served as the History Museum of Los Gatos after having been saved from destruction in 1982. Forbes Mill is situated 1½ miles north of Limekiln Canyon.

Los Gatos Public Library

Library

Photo: Ramkmeno, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Los Gatos Public Library is situated 1½ miles north of Limekiln Canyon.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Los Gatos and Chemeketa Park.

Los Gatos

Photo: Alexey Komarov, CC BY 3.0.

Los Gatos is a town of 30,000 people in Santa Clara County, near San Jose, California in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. Downtown Los Gatos has retained and restored many of its Victorian-era homes and commercial buildings.

Chemeketa Park

Hamlet

Chemeketa Park is an unincorporated community of approximately 150 homes located in Lexington Hills, in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, that is now effectively a rural neighborhood of Los Gatos, California. Chemeketa Park is situated 2½ miles south of Limekiln Canyon.

Monte Sereno

Village

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Monte Sereno is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The population was 3,479 at the 2020 census. The city is located in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 10 miles southwest of San Jose, and is bordered by the town of Los Gatos to the north, east, and south, the Santa Cruz Mountains to the southwest, and the city of Saratoga to the northwest. Monte Sereno is situated 2½ miles north of Limekiln Canyon.

Limekiln Canyon

Type: Valley with an elevation of 630 feet
Description: valley in Santa Clara County, United States of America - Geonames ID = 5366357
Category: landform
Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.19772° or 37° 11′ 52″ north

Longitude

-121.98357° or 121° 59′ 1″ west

Elevation

630 feet (192 metres)

Open location code

849W52X8+3H

GeoNames ID

5366357

Wikidata ID

Q49933902

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In Other Languages

“Limekiln Canyon” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Limekiln Canyon (walog sa Estados Unidos, California, Santa Clara County, lat 37,20, long -121,98)”
Cebuano: “Limekiln Canyon”

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Localities in the Area

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