Mountain Pass
Mountain Pass is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States. It is situated on Interstate 15 in the southeast mountainous desert region of the state approximately 15 miles from the Nevada border at an elevation of 4,730 feet —the highest point along I-15 between California and Nevada.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in California, USA
- Also known as: “Mountain Pass, CA” and “Mountain Pass, California”
- Postal code: 92366
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mountain Pass Mine.
Mountain Pass Mine
Quarry
Photo: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility, owned by MP Materials Corp., is an open-pit mine of rare-earth elements on the south flank of the Clark Mountain Range in California, 53 miles southwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Mountain Pass
Latitude
35.47026° or 35° 28′ 13″ northLongitude
-115.545° or 115° 32′ 42″ westElevation
4,728 feet (1,441 metres)United Nations Location Code
US MTSOpen location code
8576FFC4+42OpenStreetMap ID
node 150956153OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
5375435Wikidata ID
Q1950856
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to South Azerbaijani—“Mountain Pass” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “芒廷帕斯”
- Dutch: “Mountain Pass”
- German: “Mountain Pass”
- Irish: “Mountain Pass”
- Navajo: “Dziłgiizh”
- Persian: “ماونتین پس، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “ماونتین پس”
- South Azerbaijani: “ماونتین پس، کالیفورنیا”
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Notable Places Nearby
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mountain Pass”. Photo: Plazak, CC BY-SA 3.0.