Neighboring towns include Montara and Moss Beach to the north and Half Moon Bay to the south.

The Midcoast Community Council is an elected advisory body to the Board of Supervisors, is chosen by residents of Montara, Moss Beach, and El Granada.

Montara State Marine Reserve & Pillar Point State Marine Conservation Area extend offshore from Moss Beach.

Coastsiders is a community along the coast of San Mateo County, California, and includes the towns of Montara, Moss Beach, Princeton-by-the-Sea, El Granada, Pacifica, Half Moon Bay, Pescadero, Loma Mar, La Honda and San Gregorio.

The town is surrounded by open space ( Rancho Corral del Tierra ) and a popular recreation area includes Montara State Beach.

* Montara Beach Coalition

** Montara State Beach

In 2003, Montara Water and Sanitary District purchased its water system from the German industrial firm RWE.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

There are numerous species of wildlife present, especially along the San Francisco Bay estuarine shoreline, San Bruno Mountain, Fitzgerald Marine Reserve and the forests on the Montara Mountain block.

Montara is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in San Mateo County, California, United States.

Montara is located at ( 37. 539639 ,-122. 506426 ), approximately south of San Francisco and north of Santa Cruz, California.

Nearby Montara Mountain, part of the Santa Cruz Mountains, rises to an elevation of 1, 898 feet ( 578 m ) above sea level.

Montara State Marine Reserve & Pillar Point State Marine Conservation Area extend offshore from Montara.

Montara enjoys exceptionally mild weather throughout the year.

Recently, an automated weather station was set up in Montara, providing regular observations on the National Weather Service's website, weather. gov.

The 2010 United States Census reported that Montara had a population of 2, 909.

The racial makeup of Montara was 2, 491 ( 85. 6 %) White, 16 ( 0. 6 %) African American, 21 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 142 ( 4. 9 %) Asian, 1 ( 0. 0 %) Pacific Islander, 97 ( 3. 3 %) from other races, and 141 ( 4. 8 %) from two or more races.

In the state legislature Montara is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat Leland Yee, and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill.

Federally, Montara is located in California's 12th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 22 and is currently represented by Jackie Speier.

Moss and Virginia Beach, Virginia in the United States are sister cities.

One was presented as a gift to Virginia Beach, and an exact duplicate was erected in Moss to unite the two sister cities.

The ship's figurehead, which washed up on the beach several days later, was erected as a modest monument to the victims and rescuers along the oceanfront for more than 50 years, and later became the inspiration for the current matching Norwegian Lady Monuments in Virginia Beach and Moss, Norway, sculpted by Ørnulf Bast.

Moss Landing provides access to state and federal protected lands, including surfing destination Moss Landing State Beach, Salinas River State Beach, Zmudowski State Beach, Moss Landing Wildlife Area, and the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve.

Nearby communities include Moss Beach and Princeton-by-the-Sea.

Neighboring towns include Pacifica to the north, Moss Beach, El Granada, and Half Moon Bay to the south.

A panorama of Moss Beach

Moss Beach is a coastal census-designated place in San Mateo County, California, with a year 2010 census population of 3, 103.

Located in Moss Beach are the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve, a marine sanctuary ; the Half Moon Bay Airport, the historic Moss Beach Distillery and the Seal Cove Inn, a destination lodging property.

Moss Beach is naturally a foggy, drippy microclimate that gives one a sense of isolation from nearby cosmopolitan regions, and assures that summer temperatures are generally mild.

Moss Beach is situated at 37 ° 31 ' 31 " North latitude, 122 ° 30 ' 46 " West ( 37. 525240 ,-122. 512811 ), approximately south of San Francisco and north of Santa Cruz, California.

Most Elkhorn residents work in the surrounding areas of Castroville, Prunedale, Moss Landing, and the nearby larger towns of Watsonville, Salinas, and Monterey.

According to the 2001 census, there are 2003 properties, with a total of 4381 residents ( this covers the ONS areas of 005A ( Oakwood West, near Birchwood ), 005C ( Oakwood East, near Risely Moss ) and 005D ( Oakwood Central )).

In the aftermath of the Battle of Solway Moss in 1542 he served as Warden of the Scottish Marches, and in the 1544 campaign the English force under Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford was supported by a fleet which Dudley commanded.

As navigator, Jenkinson supported Moss with pace notes in the form of a Roller Map, which listed all the details of the long road trip, then an innovative technique.

One of the few highlights for Essendon supporters during this time was when Graham Moss won the 1976 Brownlow Medal ; he was the only Bomber to do so in a 40-year span from 1953 – 1993.

Later in the year Brabham, again driving the Bobtail, tussled with Stirling Moss for third place in a non-championship Formula One race at Snetterton.

He won from the front at the Dutch, French and Belgian Grands Prix, where title rival Moss was badly injured in a practice accident that put him out for two months.

Early in the 1970s, Thelma Moss and Kendall Johnson at the Center for Health Sciences at the UCLA conducted extensive research into Kirlian photography.

Parliament ordered the regiments of Col. Morley and Col. Moss to march to Westminster for their security, and sent for the rest of the troops that were about the London to draw down to them also with all speed.

While some preserved human remains may contain DNA, peat bogs such as Lindow Moss are generally poor for such a purpose, and it is unlikely that DNA could be recovered from Lindow Man.

On March 2, 2005, Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders ' first round draft pick.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

Burton appeared on Broadway, receiving a Tony Award nomination for Time Remembered ( 1958 ) and winning the award for playing King Arthur in the musical Camelot ( 1960 ), directed by Moss Hart and written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe.

By 1700, Moss had become a hub for both ship and land traffic between Copenhagen and Christiania, and in 1704 Moss Jernverk ( Moss Ironworks ) was established just north of the city center.

In 1814, Moss became the site for the signing of the Convention of Moss, which effectively put an end to the Dano-Norwegian kingdom.

The Østfold Line runs through Moss, stopping at Moss Station, which is the southern terminus of one service of the Oslo Commuter Rail and an intermediate stop for regional trains.

After graduating in 1937 he worked for the Federal Housing Administration and in 1939 he was a partner with Hunter Moss at a mortgage banking firm called the Moss-Rouse Company, which would eventually become the Rouse Company.

* Moss piglet, an alternative name for a tardigrade, a microscopic, water-dwelling, segmented animal with eight legs

* National radio is broadcast from Belmont in the south-east, Bilsdale for North Yorkshire, and Holme Moss for South and West Yorkshire.

Moss Hart ( October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961 ) was an American playwright and theatre director, best known for his interpretations of musical theater on Broadway.

In 1903, Moss became an engineer for General Electric's Steam Turbine Department in Lynn, Massachusetts.