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.- Type: Hamlet with 2,450 residents
- Description: ghost town in Riverside County, California
- Also known as: “Eagle Mountain, CA” and “Eagle Mountain, California”
Eagle Mountain
- Categories: ghost town and locality
- Location: Riverside County, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.85751° or 33° 51′ 27″ north
Longitude
-115.48721° or 115° 29′ 14″ west
Population
2,450
Elevation
1,365 feet (416 metres)
Open location code
8556VG57+24
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From German to Urdu—“Eagle Mountain” goes by many names.
- German: “Eagle Mountain”
- Turkish: “Eagle Mountain”
- Urdu: “ایگل ماؤنٹین، کیلیفورنیا”
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