Ridgecrest
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 28,000 residents
- Description: city in Kern County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Ridgecrest, CA” and “Ridgecrest, California”
- Postal codes: 93555 and 93556
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maturango Museum and Ridgecrest Regional Hospital.
Maturango Museum
Museum
Photo: Qfl247, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Maturango Museum is located in Ridgecrest, California. The museum is best known for the guided tours of the Coso Rock Art District located on China Lake Naval Weapons Station.
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital
Hospital
Ridgecrest Regional Hospital is a hospital located in Ridgecrest, California which is just east of the Southern Sierra Mountains in the Indian Wells Valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include China Lake.
China Lake
Hamlet
China Lake is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located 2.5 miles north-northeast of Ridgecrest, at an elevation of 2,264 feet. China Lake is situated 3 miles northeast of Ridgecrest.
Ridgecrest
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.6207° or 35° 37′ 15″ northLongitude
-117.6721° or 117° 40′ 20″ westPopulation
28,000Elevation
2,290 feet (698 metres)United Nations Location Code
US IGDOpen location code
8574J8CH+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 150966872OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Ridgecrest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريدجكريست”
- Basque: “Ridgecrest”
- Bulgarian: “Риджкрест”
- Catalan: “Ridgecrest”
- Cebuano: “Ridgecrest”
- Chechen: “Риджкрест”
- Chinese: “Ridgecrest”
- Chinese: “里奇克莱斯特”
- Chinese: “里奇克萊斯特”
- Croatian: “Ridgecrest”
- Czech: “Ridgecrest”
- Danish: “Ridgecrest”
- Dutch: “Ridgecrest”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ريدجكريست”
- French: “Crumville”
- French: “Ridgecrest”
- German: “Ridgecrest”
- Gilaki: “ریجکرست”
- Haitian: “Ridgecrest, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Ridgecrest”
- Hebrew: “רידג’קרסט”
- Hungarian: “Ridgecrest”
- Irish: “Ridgecrest”
- Italian: “Ridgecrest”
- Japanese: “リッジクレスト”
- Korean: “리지크레스트”
- Ladin: “Ridgecrest”
- Malagasy: “Ridgecrest”
- Malayalam: “റിഡ്ജ്ക്രെസ്റ്റ്”
- Mazanderani: “ریجکرست (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “ریجکرست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ridgecrest”
- Navajo: “Tséndeelkʼidí”
- Newari: “रिजक्रेस्ट, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “रिजक्रेस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ridgecrest”
- Norwegian: “Ridgecrest”
- Persian: “ریجکرست”
- Persian: “ریجی کرست، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “ریجی کرست”
- Polish: “Ridgecrest”
- Portuguese: “Ridgecrest”
- Russian: “Риджкрест”
- Serbian: “Ridgecrest”
- Serbian: “Ridžkrest”
- Serbian: “Риџкрест”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ridgecrest, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ridgecrest”
- Slovenian: “Ridgecrest”
- South Azerbaijani: “ریدجکرزت، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Ridgecrest (California)”
- Spanish: “Ridgecrest”
- Swedish: “Ridgecrest, Kalifornien”
- Swedish: “Ridgecrest”
- Tagalog: “Ridgecrest, California”
- Tagalog: “Ridgecrest”
- Tatar: “Риджкрест”
- Turkish: “Ridgecrest, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Ridgecrest”
- Ukrainian: “Риджкрест”
- Urdu: “ریج کرسٹ، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Ridgecrest”
- Uzbek: “Ридгеcрест”
- Volapük: “Ridgecrest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ridgecrest, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ridgecrest”
- Wu Chinese: “里奇克莱斯特 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Wu Chinese: “里奇克莱斯特（加利福尼亚州）”
- Wu Chinese: “里奇克莱斯特”
- Yue Chinese: “里奇克萊斯特”
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