- Landers, California
Landers is an
unincorporated community inSan Bernardino County, California . The town lies in the Homestead Valley of theMojave Desert , northeast of Flamingo Heights. The closest large towns areYucca Valley and Joshua Tree. The town has its own small airport, Landers Airport.Near Landers is
Giant Rock , a large freestanding boulder. In the 1950s through the 1970s, it was a popular gathering point forUFO believers. UFO contacteeGeorge Van Tassel built hisIntegratron in the Giant Rock area.The area was also the
epicenter of theLanders Earthquake , a magnitude 7.3 earthquake onJune 28 1992 which caused considerable structural damage to the surrounding area, and one death, that of a six-year-old child. The image shown most frequently on the news was the complete collapse of the northern wall of the Yucca Lanes Bowling Center. It was later revealed that this wall was in fact a temporary one designed for easy removal should the building be expanded at a future date.The
ZIP Code is 92285 and the community is insidearea code 760 .External links
* [http://www.geocities.com/cargolax/Landers.html "Local Landers Home Page"]
* [http://virtualguidebooks.com/SouthCalif/SouthernDeserts/HighDesert/DowntownLanders_FS.html Downtown Landers, full screen panorama]
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