Dryer repair in San Diego County.

Also covered in San Diego County

• 4S RanchAfter 1915 the Santa Fe Railway's water subsidiary planted thousands of eucalyptus trees on 4S Ranch, wrongly expecting them to make good railroad ties.
• Black Mountain RanchBlack Mountain Ranch took more than 17 years to develop, a project led by local businessman Fred Maas.
• BonitaBonita's Central Avenue crossing of the Sweetwater River has never had a bridge, so it takes the worst of the valley's floods.
• CarlsbadCarlsbad's northeast quadrant, east of El Camino Real, is mostly single-family homes, with larger lots in the older Chestnut Hills area.
• Carmel Mountain RanchBy 1999 Carmel Mountain Ranch had nearly 5,000 homes, short of the roughly 7,185 its 1981 plan allowed.
• Chula VistaChula Vista began as a 5,000-acre development whose first house went up in 1887.
• Del Mar MesaEucalyptus groves on Del Mar Mesa were planted around farmsteads in the 1800s, and much of its eastern land is conserved under the city's Multiple Species Conservation Program.
• EastlakeEastlake lies in east Chula Vista, where thousands of Tijuana's well-off families bought houses in the years around 2008.
• EscondidoNOAA's Escondido station averages a June-through-August high of 86 degrees F and 14.52 inches of precipitation a year.
• KensingtonMuch of Kensington was built out in the late 1920s, leaving a large collection of Spanish Revival homes, some designed by Richard Requa and Cliff May.
• La MesaRenters outnumbered owners in La Mesa at the 2010 census, occupying 54.2% of its occupied housing units.
• Mission HillsAlong its canyon rims, Mission Hills gained modernist infill houses in the 1950s and 1960s by architects such as Lloyd Ruocco and Homer Delawie.
• North CoastalCoastal North County is mostly flat land with low rolling hills, though in places such as Encinitas a coastal foothill ridge splits a whole city.
• North InlandHeading inland, North County climbs into rocky foothills and peaks such as Black Mountain, San Marcos Mountain and Palomar Mountain.
• Otay RanchOtay Ranch is one of the east Chula Vista areas, along with Lomas Verdes and Rancho Del Rey, where thousands of new homes have been built.
• PowayThe first subdivision homes in Poway were built and sold in 1959 as Poway Valley Homes.
• Rancho BernardoThe 2007 Witch Creek Fire destroyed whole neighborhoods in Rancho Bernardo, with the Trails, Montelena and Westwood hit hardest.
• Rancho PeñasquitosThe old rancho operated until 1962, when developer Irvin Kahn bought the 14,000-acre parcel to build a planned community for 150,000 residents.
• San DiegoSan Diegans have traditionally built their homes and businesses on the mesas and left the canyons between them largely wild.
• San MarcosIn 1903 San Marcos residents picked up their homes and moved them a couple of miles east along the railroad to today's Mission Road and Pico Avenue.
• Scripps RanchE.W. Scripps built a home he named Miramar on land here in the 1890s, and by 1900 the ranch had become his family's California base.
• South / CentralThe South Bay includes San Ysidro, Nestor, Palm City and Otay Mesa, communities the City of San Diego annexed in 1957.