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Slab City is located on roughly 640 acres (260 hectares) of public land, [9] near the east shore of the Salton Sea.It is 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Diego, 169 mi (272 km) southeast of Los Angeles and about 50 mi (80 km) from Mexico. [10]
Salvation Mountain is a hillside visionary environment created by local resident Leonard Knight (1931–2014) in the California Desert area of Imperial County, north of Calipatria, northeast of Niland, near the Slab City squatter/art commune, [ 1] and several miles from the Salton Sea . The artwork is made of adobe bricks, discarded tires and ...
Map of the Salton Sea drainage area. The Salton Sea is a shallow, landlocked, highly saline endorheic lake in Riverside and Imperial counties at the southern end of the U.S. state of California. It lies on the San Andreas Fault within the Salton Trough, which stretches to the Gulf of California in Mexico .
Niland (formerly Old Beach, [ 2] Imperial Junction, [ 2] and Hobgood[ 3]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Imperial County, California, United States. The town is located 8 miles (13 km) north of Calipatria, [ 3] 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the Salton Sea. The population was 1,006 at the 2010 census, down from 1,143 in 2000.
Calipatria, California. Location of Calipatria in Imperial County, California. / 33.12556°N 115.51417°W / 33.12556; -115.51417. Calipatria Post Office. Calipatria ( portmanteau of California and Patria, Spanish for "homeland") is a city in Imperial County, California. Calipatria is located 23 miles (37 km) north of El Centro. [4]
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. ... City and County of San Francisco: 1956: ... Slab and buttress: 16 4.9: 10,300 [c] 12,700
Congressional district. 25th. Website. www .co .imperial .ca .us. Imperial County ( Spanish: Condado de Imperial) is a county located on the southeast border of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 179,702, making it the least populous county in Southern California. [9] The county seat and largest city is El ...
Area codes. 442/760. GNIS feature ID. 252884 [1] El Mirage (corruption of El Miraje, Spanish for "The Mirage") is an unincorporated community in the western Victor Valley of the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California . El Mirage is next to the El Mirage Lake, a dry lake bed, and 12.5 miles (20.1 km) northwest of Adelanto .