Earp, California

Earp, California

Earp, California is an unincorporated townsite in San Bernardino County in the Sonoran Desert close to the California/Arizona state line at the Colorado River.

It is named for famed western lawman Wyatt Earp who settled in the area with his second wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus. Earp was living in Vidal in 1906 and staked claims for both copper and gold mines near the base of the Whipple Mountains that same year.

Earp spent the winters of his last years working the claims, passing away in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.

Though there was never an actual town on the site of Earp, there is a post office near Earp's mining claims at the eastern terminus of Highway 62 near Vidal Junction signed as "Earp, California" with a ZIP code of 92242. In regards to telephone communications, the entire region on the California side falls under area code 760.

Its location in relationship to the county seat makes Earp the farthest point from the county seat at more than convert|220|mi|km away.

Unofficial alternate names of the area are listed as Drenna and Drennan.

External links and references

* [http://www.thenaturalamerican.com/wyatt.htm Wyatt Earp biography at Thenaturalamerican.com]
* [http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/mar/papr/du_earp.html Wyatt Earp biography at Desertusa.com]
* [http://california.hometownlocator.com/CA/San-Bernardino/Earp.cfm Map and GPS coordinates]


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