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Cima (Spanish for "Summit") is a small unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert of San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It lies in a mountain pass on the divide between the Ivanpah Valley and the Mojave River basin, at an elevation of 4,175 feet (1,273 m).
Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada. [3] [4] The volcanic field covers a surface area of 600 km 2 (230 sq mi) within the Mojave National Preserve west of the Cima Dome and consists of about 40 volcanic cones with about 60 lava flows. The volcanic cones range from simple ...
The valley is between the New York Mountains and the Ivanpah Mountains in San Bernardino County on the California side, and in Clark County on the Nevada side. [1] The communities of Cima, California; Nipton, California; Jean, Nevada; and Primm, Nevada are in the valley. [2]
The forest covering Cima Dome and the adjacent Shadow Valley is the largest and densest in the world. [4] In August 2020, a wildfire destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees around Cima Dome. [5] The ghost town of Kelso is found in the preserve, with the defunct railroad depot serving as the visitor center.
Cima, California, U.S. Erected in Memory of The Dead Of All Wars The Mojave Memorial Cross , officially known as the White Cross World War I Memorial , is a cross formerly on public land in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California that was at the center of the Salazar v.
Kelso is a ghost town and defunct railroad depot in the Mojave National Preserve in San Bernardino County, California, USA.It was named after railroad worker John H. Kelso, whose name was placed into a hat along with two other workers to decide the name of the town.
The Kelso Depot, Restaurant and Employees Hotel or Kelso Depot, now also the Mojave National Preserve Visitors Center, is located in the Mojave Desert within the National Park Service Mojave National Preserve, on Kelso Cima Road at the junction of Kelbaker Road in Kelso, California, between Baker and Interstate 15 to the north and Interstate 40 to the south. [3]
Cajon Pass was the site of a major accident on December 14, 1994, when a westbound Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe intermodal train lost control and crashed into the rear of a westbound Union Pacific coal train just below California Highway 138, between Alray and Cajon. [17]