Eagle Mountain | |
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  Eagle Mountain Location within the state of California | |
| Coordinates: 33°51′27″N 115°29′14″W / 33.85750°N 115.48722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Riverside |
| Elevation | 1,365 ft (416 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-7 (PDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1660573[1] |
Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park. The town's fully integrated medical care system, similar to other Kaiser operations in California, was the genesis of the modern-day Kaiser Permanente health maintenance organization.[2] Eagle Mountain is accessible by Kaiser Road (Riverside County Route R2) from California State Route 177, twelve miles (19 km) north of Desert Center, midway between Indio and the California/Arizona state line along Interstate 10.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Eagle Mountain, California
- ^ Rickey Hendricks, A Model for National Health Care: The History of Kaiser Permanente (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993), ISBN 0-8135-1929-2, 13-26