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Hedges, later renamed Tumco, is a locale, a ghost town, site of a former mining town, in Imperial County, California. It lies at an elevation of 617 feet / 188 meters along the Tumco Wash in the Cargo Muchacho Mountains. Nearby is the Hedges Cemetery at an elevation of 643 feet, at 32°53′04″N114°49′52″W.
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dos Palmas Spring
- ↑ Delmer Ross, Gold Road to La Paz, An Interpretive Guide to the Bradshaw Trail, Tales of the Mojave Road Pub. Co; 1992, pp.53-76
- ↑ Ornish, Natalie, "Ehrenberg, Herman", Handbook of Texas, Texas State Historical Association, Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Accessed April 10, 2015
- ↑ Frickstad, Walter N., A Century of California Post Offices 1848-1954, Philatelic Research Society, Oakland, CA. 1955.
- ↑ "Dos Palmas Preserve; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT website accessed April 12, 2015". Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
- Gary L. Shumway, Larry Vredenburgh, Russell Hartill, Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining History of the California Desert Conservation Area; February, 1980, complete pdf version
- Gary L. Shumway, Larry Vredenburgh, Russell Hartill, Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining History of the California Desert Conservation Area; Riverside County, February, 1980
- Randall Henderson, Waterhole on the Old Bradshaw Trail, Desert Magazine, January 1947