Eagle Mountain
Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.- Hamlet with about 2,450 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,360 feet (420 metres)
- Description: ghost town in Riverside County, California
- Also known as“Eagle Mountain, CA”“Eagle Mountain, California”
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Latitude
33.85751° or 33° 51′ 27″ north
Longitude
-115.48721° or 115° 29′ 14″ west
Open location code
8556VG57+24
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In Other Languages
From German to Urdu—“Eagle Mountain” goes by many names.
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