- Cadiz, California
Cadiz is a small unincorporated community in the
Mojave Desert inCalifornia . It is located just south of the Marble Mountains near National Trails Highway inSan Bernardino County . Cadiz is home to a former railroad stop, and is situated at 34° 31' 12" North latitude and 115° 30' 43" West longitude, at an elevation of convert|791|ft|m.The town was named in 1883 by Lewis Kingman, a locating engineer for the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad . It is the third in a string of alphabetically named railroad stations in theMojave Desert .cite book|first=Erwin|last=Gudde| coauthors =William Bright |title=California Place Names|year=2004|edition=Fourth ed.|publisher=University of California Press|pages=p. 11|id=ISBN 0-520-24217-3]Cadiz, Inc., a Los Angeles-based land- and water-resource-management company, owns more than convert|35000|acre|km2 around Cadiz. The area overlies a large aquifer and is located approximately convert|30|mi|km north of the
Colorado River Aqueduct .The
ZIP Code is 92319 and the community is insidearea code 760 .Railroads
Cadiz is served by the
BNSF Railway mainline that runs from Los Angeles to Chicago. It was previously theAtchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line. Also at Cadiz, theArizona & California Railroad runs over a former ATSF line to Phoenix viaParker, Arizona and a branch toBlythe, California .References
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