Zzyzx, formerly Soda Springs, is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States, within the boundaries of the Mojave National Preserve, managed by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Interior, as public land. It is the former site of the Zzyzx Mineral Springs and Health Spa and now the site of the Desert Studies Center. The site is also the location of Lake Tuendae, originally part of the spa, and now a refuge habitat of the endangered Mohave tui chub.
Caliente is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located 22 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 1,312 feet (400 m).
Cantil is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is in the Fremont Valley of the western Mojave Desert.
Silverwood Lake is a large reservoir in San Bernardino County, California, United States, located on the West Fork Mojave River, a tributary of the Mojave River in the San Bernardino Mountains. It was created in 1971 as part of the State Water Project by the construction of the Cedar Springs Dam as a forebay on the 444 mi (715 km) long California Aqueduct, and has a capacity of 73,000 acre⋅ft (90,000,000 m3).
Pacheco Creek is a 3.4-mile-long (5.5 km) waterway in central Contra Costa County, California. It empties into Suisun Bay. It is formed by the intersection of Walnut Creek, Grayson Creek and Pine Creek.
Norden is a small unincorporated community in Nevada County, California, United States, about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee. The community is located on a former portion of U.S. Route 40 near Interstate 80 and lies along the historical First transcontinental railroad, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Donner Pass.
Leggett is a census-designated place in Mendocino County, California, United States. It is located on the South Fork of the Eel River, 21 miles (34 km) by road northwest of Laytonville, at an elevation of 984 ft (300 m). It is home to some of the largest trees in the world. The nearby Smithe Redwoods State Natural Reserve and Standish-Hickey State Recreation Area are noted for their forests of coastal redwoods. The population of Leggett was 77 at the 2020 census, down from 122 at the 2010 census.
Helltown is an unincorporated community in Butte County, California. It lies 4 miles (6.4 km) north-northwest of Paradise, at an elevation of 873 feet inside Butte Creek Canyon.
Bracut is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Arcata, at an elevation of 16 feet. The name originated as a contraction of the railway cut through Brainard hill in the Humboldt Bay salt marsh. Railway trestle work originally connected the hill south to Eureka and north to Arcata. Much of the hill was subsequently excavated to provide fill to replace the original trestle work; and the railway fill prism became a dike encouraging conversion of the inland salt marsh to pasture land. The leveled hill is now the site of several large structures remaining from previous lumber operations, a District 1 CalTrans yard, and a KOA campground.
Port Kenyon is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) northwest of Ferndale, at an elevation of 13 feet.
Leliter is a former settlement in Kern County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-northwest of Inyokern, at an elevation of 2303 feet. Leliter still appeared on maps as of 1943.
Muroc is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Mojave Desert.
Pentland was an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located on the Sunset Railroad 2.5 miles (4 km) east of Maricopa, at an elevation of 646 feet (197 m).
Newport is an unincorporated community in Mendocino County, California. It is located on California State Route 1 near the Pacific Ocean 4.25 miles (6.8 km) south of Westport, at an elevation of 135 feet.
Cahto is a former settlement in Mendocino County, California. It was located 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Laytonville.
Gabilan was a former settlement in Monterey County, California. It was located on the Southern Pacific Railroad 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Gonzales, at an elevation of 112 feet, and was situated in the foothills of the Gabilan Range. In Spanish, gavilán means "sparrow hawk". Hawks, especially the red-tailed hawk, are common in the area.
Coyote Creek is a stream in the Richardson Bay watershed, draining Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, California eastward into Richardson Bay, Marin County, California, United States. The stream originates on Coyote Ridge and flows 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the bay at the south end of Bothin Marsh.
Rignot Glacier is a glacier about 4 nautical miles long draining north from the King Peninsula into Abbot Ice Shelf. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Eric Rignot, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, geophysicist; uses field and remotely sensed data to study Antarctic glacier mechanics from the 1990s to the present.
Crucero, California is a ghost town in San Bernardino County, California. It was located at the junction of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. Originally named Epsom, it was renamed in 1910 for the Spanish word for crossing. A post office existed at Crucero from 1911 to 1917 and from 1922 to 1943. Following the abandonment of the T&T, the settlement was also abandoned.
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