| LC control no. | n 95006019 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Ocean Beach (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Variant(s) | San Diego (Calif.). Ocean Beach Mussel Beach (San Diego, Calif.) Mussel Beds (San Diego, Calif.) O.B. (San Diego, Calif.) |
| Located | San Diego (Calif.) |
| Special note | SUBJECT USAGE: This heading is not valid for use as a geographic subdivision. |
| Found in | There goes the neighborhood! c1993: p. 37, etc. (Ocean Beach, community of San Diego) Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1987: (under Calif - Ocean Beach, part of San Diego) Wikipedia, July 10, 2018 (Ocean Beach, San Diego; Ocean Beach (also known as O.B.) is a beachfront neighborhood of San Diego, California. Ocean Beach lies on the Pacific Ocean at the estuary of the San Diego River, at the western terminus of Interstate 8. Located about 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Downtown San Diego, it sits south of Mission Bay and Mission Beach and directly north of Point Loma. The O.B. community planning area comprises about 1 square mile (742 acres), bounded on the north by the San Diego River, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, on the east by Froude St., Seaside St. and West Point Loma Boulevard, and on the south by Adair Street. The beach's initial name was Mussel Beach, for the mussels available there. Its current name, Ocean Beach, was given in 1887 by developers Billy Carlson and Albert E. Higgins; coordinates: 32°45ʹ3.18ʺN, 117°15ʹ6.13ʺW) GNIS, July 10, 2018 (Ocean Beach; PPL; San Diego County, California; variant name: Mussel Beds; sequence 1 coordinates: 32.7444942 -117.2551100, 324440N 1171518W; sequence 2 coordinates: 32.7508830 -117.2517036, 324503N 1171506W; sequence 3 coordinates: 32.7517164 -117.2475369, 324506N 1171451W) |
| Geographic area code | n-us-ca |
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