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Indian Wells Valley, showing Ridgecrest, California and the China Lake area. China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [ 1] It is located 2.5 miles (4 km) north-northeast of Ridgecrest, [ 2] at an elevation of 2,264 feet (690 m). [ 1] The place is on China Lake, a dry lake on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. / 35.68556°N 117.69194°W / 35.68556; -117.69194. Naval Air Weapons Station ( NAWS) China Lake[ 2] is a large military installation in California that supports the research, testing and evaluation programs of the United States Navy. It is part of Navy Region Southwest [ 3] under Commander, Navy ...
1652783, 2410944. Website. www .ridgecrest-ca .gov. Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake). It was incorporated as a city in 1963.
State Route 178 Map of eastern California with SR 178 highlighted in red Route information Maintained by Caltrans Length 166.81 mi (268.45 km) Section 1 West end SR 99 in Bakersfield Major intersections SR 204 / SR 99 Bus. in Bakersfield SR 184 near Bakersfield SR 155 near Lake Isabella SR 14 at Freeman Junction US 395 near Ridgecrest East end Trona Road near Trona Section 2 West end Death ...
Owens Lake from the Horseshoe Meadows Road. The lake is a large salt flat whose surface is made of a mixture of clay, sand, and a variety of minerals including halite, burkeite, mirabilite, thenardite, and trona. In wet years, these minerals form a chemical soup in the form of a small brine pond within the dry lake.
October 8, 1999 [1] Designated NHLD. July 8, 2001 [2] Coso Rock Art District is a rock art site containing over 100,000 Petroglyphs by Paleo-Indians and/or Native Americans. [1] The district is located near the towns of China Lake and Ridgecrest, California. Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons were declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.
Little Lake was established largely as a traveler's stop along what eventually became US 395, after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dammed the site's eponymous landmark – once known as Owens Little Lake – as part of its work on the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1905. While early on the town had a store, auto repair shop and gas ...
U.S. Route 395 ( US 395) is a United States Numbered Highway, stretching from Hesperia, California to the Canadian border in Laurier, Washington. The California portion of US 395 is a 557-mile (896 km) route which traverses from Interstate 15 (I-15) in Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake.