Today Cedar Key's clam-based aquaculture is a multi-million dollar industry.

The Cedar of Lebanon and to a lesser extent the Deodar have local cultural importance.

* 2003 – The Cedar Fire, the second-largest fire in California history, kills 15 people, consumes, and destroys 2, 200 homes around San Diego.

Harbison Canyon was twice devastated by wildfires, first by the Laguna Fire in 1970 then again by the Cedar Fire on October 26, 2003, the worst firestorm in California history.

The Cedar Fire is the largest fire in California history.

The Cedar Fire is the largest fire in Southern California history and was part of the 2003 Firestorm.

The Witch Creek fire was initially feared to be larger than the Cedar Fire but instead resulted in becoming the second largest fire in California history.

The Cedar Key Museum State Park depicts the town's 19th century history and displays sea shells and Indian artifacts from the collection of Saint Clair Whitman.

* Cedar City history

It is tied with Millennium Force for being the two largest investments in Cedar Point history.

Driven by Santa Ana Winds, the Cedar Fire burned 2, 820 buildings ( including 2, 232 homes ) and had killed 15 people including one firefighter before being contained on November 3, making it the largest fire in recorded California history, and the deadliest single wildfire event in the U. S. since the 1991 Oakland firestorm.

The Laguna Fire was surpassed as the second largest fire in California history by the 280, 278 acre ( 1, 134 km² ) Cedar Fire in October 2003.

Horton taught history, government and English at Cedar Crest College and Muhlenberg College, both located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

Two late novels show Powell's interest in the New York art world of the 1950s: The Wicked Pavilion ( 1954 ), an ensemble portrait of the characters orbiting around the Cafe Julien ( a fictionalized Hotel Brevoort ) and a vanished or deceased painter named Marius ; and The Golden Spur ( 1962 ), set in a fictionalized Cedar Tavern, in which a young man's search for the identity and history of his dead father brings him to New York, where he becomes involved with the circle around the charismatic painter Hugow.

The Cleveland National Forest was the site of both of the largest wildfires in California history, the 2003 Cedar Fire, and the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889.

This included the huge Cedar Fire, the second largest fire in California's history after the Santiago Canyon Fire of 1889.

According to The History of Jefferson County, Iowa ( 1879 ), " This was a strip of land on the west bank of the Mississippi River, the western boundary of which commenced at the southeast corner of the present county of Davis ; thence to a point on Cedar River, near the northeast corner of Johnson County ; thence northwest to the neutral grounds of the Winnebagoes ; thence to the Mississippi to a point above Prairie du Chien ..." Still another history describes it as extending from the Yellow River in the north to the Des Moines River in the south.

There is also a tale about a tunnel in the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona near Cedar Creek which is said to lead inside the earth to a land inhabited by a mysterious tribe.

The area is largely residential in nature ( south of Mount Hope Road near the northern edge ), and is served by numerous commercial strips along Cedar Street, Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, Pennsylvania Avenue, and Waverly Road, which run north / south.

Xerox PARC developed Cedar, which was based on Mesa, with a number of additions including garbage collection, better string support, called Ropes, and a native compiler for Sun SPARC workstations.

An Early Dynastic II king ( Ensi ) of Uruk in Sumer, Gilgamesh ( c. 2, 600 BCE ), was commended for military exploits against Humbaba guardian of the Cedar Mountain, and was later celebrated in many later poems and songs in which he was claimed to be two-thirds god and only one-third human.

It was soon discovered that Incense cedar, when dyed and perfumed to resemble Red Cedar, was a suitable alternative and most pencils today are made from this timber which is grown in managed forests.

In August 2001, rains over Cedar Rapids, Iowa led to a 10. 5C ( 18. 9F ) rise in the nearby stream within one hour, which led to a fish kill.

First he ran up the stock of his M & M Railroad while secretly buying stock in the depressed Cedar Rapids and Missouri Railroad ( CR & M ), then running up CR & M stock with new plans to connect the Union Pacific to it at which point he began buying back the M & M stock at depressed prices.

A nearby example of amphitheaters with hoodoos in the same formation but at a higher elevation, is in Cedar Breaks National Monument, which is to the west on the Markagunt Plateau.

Cedar wood and cedar oil are known to be a natural repellent to moths, hence cedar is a popular lining for modern-day cedar chests and closets in which woolens are stored.

On October 27, 2003, the Monday Night Football game between the San Diego Chargers and Miami Dolphins was moved to Sun Devil Stadium because the Cedar Fire in the San Diego area forced the teams to vacate Qualcomm Stadium, which was being used as an evacuation site.

Paul Knight of the Houston Press said in a 2009 article that some people blamed the development of the artificial Cedar Creek Lake, which opened in 1965, and development of the area surrounding the lake for the initial influx of crime and recreational drugs into the county and the East Texas region.

The county was founded February 14, 1845, and named after Cedar Creek, a tributary of the Sac River, which in turn is named from the Eastern red cedar, a common tree of the area.

A terrible wildfire, which has come to be known as the Baudette Fire of 1910, broke out in October of that year, burning and destroying the towns of Spooner, Baudette, Graceton, Pitt, Williams, and Cedar Spur.

It is named for the Cedar River, which runs through the county, the county is also in the crossroads of Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and Quad Cities metropolitan areas, also is the only Iowa county which shares the name of a tree.

Shortly before leaving Cedar Grove, Route 23 crosses County Route 604 ( Lindsley Road ), which also heads to the west as County Route 527.

* The Bicentennial National Trail for walking and horse riding passes from Cedar Creek on the edge of Werrikimbe National Park past Youdales Hut via East Kunderang to Georges Junction on the Armidale to Kempsey road, which is a distance of some 75 kilometres through the National Park.

It intersects County Route 608 ( Carmel Road ) and County Route 698 ( Beech Street ), County Route 667 ( Sharp Street ), and County Route 610 ( Brandriff Avenue ) before meeting County Route 555 ( Cedar Street ), which it forms a concurrency with.

One of the most delightful walks in the whole Tamborine area is the Cedar Creek Circuit ( 3. 2 km ) which explores the creek's various cascades, rock pools and plant communities, such as open and dry rainforest and hoop pines.

Outside of Lake Arrowhead Village there are several residential communities, which include Cedar Glen, Blue Jay, Rimforest, Skyforest, Crest Park, Deer Lodge Park, and Agua Fria.

James Fitch, minister of Norwich, adjacent to Maj. Mason's land which was now known as Cedar Swamp.

The lighthouse, which overlooked the Mispillion River and Cedar Creek, was established in 1831 with a 65 foot tower.

He recorded his impressions of Cedar Key in his memoir, A thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, which was published in 1916, after his death.

Resettlement began around 1868 when a Cincinnati syndicate purchased a tract at the mouth of Cedar Creek and named it Port Lawrence, creating the modern downtown area.

It began at Santa Fe, thence to Durango, Colorado, crossed the Colorado River where Moab is now located, then to the Green River-crossing where Green River is now located, thence westerly to Cedar Mountain.

In 1854, the new railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Key bypassed Newnansville, and Gainesville, a new town that was located on the railroad, began to draw business and residents away from Newnansville.

The Cedar Fire began in Ramona approximately east of the San Diego Country Estates area, on 25 October 2003.

On October 23, 2003, the Cedar Fire began approximately 3 miles east of the Estates in Cleveland National Forest.

When Henry Plant's railroad to Tampa began service in 1886, Tampa took shipping away from Cedar Key, causing an economic decline in the area.

The Stockton tornado began in Vernon County, near Nevada, Missouri and moved eastward through Cedar and Polk counties before dissipating east of the Dallas County line.

It was centered around the Euclid Golf Course and began at the Cleveland city line, covering the area between Mayfield Road and Cedar Road as far east as Coventry Road.

The town began as an unincorporated community known as the " Old Bethel Community " in the 1960s after completion of Cedar Creek Reservoir.

In 1870, he began to ferry locals to the Cedar Point peninsula, which was regaining popularity as a summer picnic destination.

In 1915 Hormel began selling dry sausages under the names of Cedar Cervelat, Holsteiner and Noxall Salami.

Cedar Park changed little until the 1950s and 1960s when housing subdivisions began to be built, spurred by the growth of nearby Austin.

Starting with two Digital Tandem Switch ( DTS ) voice-switching systems designed specifically for them by the Collins Radio Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa ( later a division of Rockwell International ), MCI began offering competitive circuit-switched direct-dial services using a combination of their own microwave circuits and leased circuits from AT & T made available to them from the landmark Carterfone decision.

In 1928 Rutherford began to teach that the Cedar Point convention and the events resulting from it fulfilled the prophecy of the 1290 days at Daniel 12: 11.

At the 1922 Cedar Point convention Rutherford began teaching that Christ's reign had begun in 1914, and not 1878 as Russell had taught.

Shortly following the transfer of ownership, Cedar Fair began the process of integrating the two companies by eliminating the Paramount Parks corporate office in Charlotte, North Carolina and transferring all decision-making to Cedar Fair's offices in Sandusky, Ohio.

The individual parks continued to operate under their Paramount names during the 2006 season, however Cedar Fair began removing the Paramount name and logo from the parks in January 2007.

As a result, in early January 2007, Cedar Fair began to drop the name " Paramount " from all of the former Paramount parks, and the park is currently called by its original name: Canada's Wonderland.

Beginning in Spring of 2004, Cedar Valley College began operating the Cedar Valley College Center at Cedar Hill.

For the 2008-09 school year, Cedar Valley began a joint dual credit enrollment project with the Dallas Independent School District and the Cedar Hill Independent School District by opening two early college high school campuses, one in Dallas and one in Cedar Hill.