Emerald Lake, Ooty | Emerald Lake near Ooty

* Emerald Lake: This lake is near the town of the same name.

* Avalanche Lake: Adjacent to Emerald Lake, this picturesque lake is mainly situated in a reserved forest and is largely off-limits to visitors

Emerald Lake Hills is a census-designated place and neighborhood in unincorporated San Mateo County, in the state of California, USA.

Residents refer to the area by either Emerald Hills or by Emerald Lake Hills.

While Upper Emerald Lake on Jefferson Avenue is privately held by the owners of its surrounding shoreline, Lower Emerald Lake is owned and operated by the Emerald Lake Country Club.

The name Emerald Hills is now more commonly adopted due to mailing designation rules, as the U. S. Post Office would allow only a two-word name.

Renowned throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for its spectacular display of spring wildflowers, Edgewood Park occupies of grasslands, chaparral, and wooded foothills between Highway 280 and the homes of Emerald Hills.

Named for the distinctive emerald green water that fills them, the two lakes created by the original developers of Emerald Hills still exist to enhance the beauty of the area.

Located on Handley Trail Way in the center of Emerald Hills, Handley Rock Park features a monolith of sandstone of, the largest formation of its kind in San Mateo County Situated on a lot of, this County-approved private park is operated by the Handley Rock Association, a group of local residents and rock-climbing enthusiasts.

Emerald Lake Hills is located in what was once the Rancho de las Pulgas (" Flea Ranch ").

The name Emerald Hills was first used in a 1920 brochure distributed by George Irvine, who had big plans but inadequate cash.

Holt brought in builder George Leonard, and Emerald Lake Hills became the prime property of the Leonard & Holt Real Estate & Mortgage Co. ( Another of their projects was Ingleside Terraces, on Junipero Serra Boulevard and Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.

The developers aimed their marketing at San Francisco families, emphasizing the proximity of Emerald Lake Hills as a weekend or vacation retreat and especially singing the praises of its largely fog-free climate.

In the previous Oz book, The Emerald City of Oz, magic was used to isolate Oz from all outside worlds.

The book was a popular success, selling just over 17, 000 copies — though this was somewhat lower than the total for the previous book, The Emerald City of Oz, and marked the start of a trend in declining sales for the Oz books that would not reverse until The Tin Woodman of Oz in 1918.

The first European settlement on the island was established at Emerald River in 1921, in the form of a Christian mission by the Church Missionary Society.

Nicknamed " Ol ' Stubblebeard ", Grimes was born in Emerald, Wisconsin.

In the Green Lantern Corps issue # 48, John Stewart was introduced as Kyle Rayner's new partner in the Honor Guard, with Guy Gardner leaving to a new comic book called Emerald Warriors.

It was at this time that four sections of Emerald Township were transferred to Auglaize Township.

Sir Samuel was the grandfather-in-law of the society hostess Emerald, Lady Cunard ( wife of the third baronet ), and the great-grandfather of Nancy Cunard.

It was to be the centerpiece of the 3, 000-resident community the Highlands of Emerald Lake.

Within a few years of the end of World War II, Emerald Hills was making the transition from a vacation resort to a residential area, albeit a rustic one.

The Emerald Lake Homeowners Association was established in the ' 50s to contest the planned routing of an interstate highway through the neighborhood.

Emerald Hills used septic tanks until early 1980s, a factor that limited building: In 1982, the year the sewer system was installed, the neighborhood had 900 homes.

The racial makeup of Emerald Lake Hills was 3, 655 ( 85. 4 %) White, 39 ( 0. 9 %) African American, 5 ( 0. 1 %) Native American, 322 ( 7. 5 %) Asian, 15 ( 0. 4 %) Pacific Islander, 56 ( 1. 3 %) from other races, and 186 ( 4. 3 %) from two or more races.

From about 1 AD to colonial times, Emerald Isle was home to Native Americans.

Emerald Isle was sliced into 54 blocks of 1, 000 feet, each going from ocean to sound.

In 1971 the Cameron Langston Bridge was opened to provide access from Cedar Point to the western end of Bogue Banks and Emerald Isle.

Emerald was the birthplace of former MLB player Burleigh Grimes.

Vikingsholm was the original settlement on Emerald Bay and included an island teahouse and a 38 room home.

The hotel was originally built and owned by Japan-based Tokyu Group, and opened in 1984 as the Emerald of Anaheim.

In the 1920s Henry Fort, who owned the Emerald Isle beaches and land surrounding them, hoped to open a large summer tourist attraction and ocean resort.

* Emerald Bay is dubbed a " hotel within a hotel ," as it has of dedicated meeting space and the most luxurious accommodations in the resort, with 26 luxury suites.

The unincorporated community of Emerald is located partially in the town.

The community contains or is bordered by a number of jewels of the Emerald Necklace park system designed in the 19th century by Frederick Law Olmsted:

The small community of Gindie exists approximately 23 km south of Emerald on the Gregory Highway.

* Emerald ( CDP ), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

* Emerald Grove, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

A Crystal Coast community, it lies on Bogue Banks between the towns of Emerald Isle and Indian Beach.

It created a community of interest by working with the London Development Agency ( LDA ) to establish both an undergraduate degree in social enterprise at the University of East London ( led by Jon Griffith ) and a Social Enterprise Journal ( now managed by Liverpool John Moores University and published by Emerald Publishing ).