Observatory Hill
Observatory Hill is a peak in Alameda, California and has an elevation of 312 feet. Observatory Hill is situated nearby to the neighborhood Northside, as well as near the locality Circle of Freedom.Places of Interest
Highlights include C. V. Starr East Asian Library and Transportation Library, UC Berkeley.
Transportation Library, UC Berkeley
Library
The Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library —also known as the Institute of Transportation Studies Library, the Berkeley Transportation Library, or simply as the Transportation Library— is a transportation library at the University of California, Berkeley, devoted to transportation studies.
Bancroft Library
Library
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The Bancroft Library is the main special collections library of the University of California, Berkeley. The original collection, acquired in 1905 from its founder Hubert Howe Bancroft, is the largest collection of materials on Californian history and Western North America in the world.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northside and Downtown Berkeley.
Northside
Neighborhood
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Northside is a principally residential neighborhood in Berkeley, California, located north of the University of California, Berkeley campus, east of Oxford Street, and south of Cedar Street.
Downtown Berkeley
Neighborhood
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Downtown Berkeley is the central business district of the city of Berkeley, California, United States, around the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street, and extending north to Hearst Avenue, south to Dwight Way, west to Martin Luther King Jr.
Southside
Neighborhood
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Southside, also known by the older names South of Campus or South Campus, is a neighborhood in Berkeley, California. Southside is located directly south of and adjacent to the University of California, Berkeley campus.
Observatory Hill
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 312 feet
- Description: Hill in Alameda County, California
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Alameda, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.87422° or 37° 52′ 27″ northLongitude
-122.26057° or 122° 15′ 38″ westElevation
312 feet (95 metres)Open location code
849VVPFQ+MQOpenStreetMap ID
node 2427751996OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Observatory Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Observatory Hill”
- Dutch: “Observatory Hill”
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