Calico | |
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 Calico in the Mojave Desert | |
  Calico Location within Southern California | |
| Coordinates: 34°56′56″N 116°51′51″W / 34.94889°N 116.86417°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Bernardino |
| Elevation | 2,283 ft (696 m) |
| Time zone | UTC−8 (Pacific) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−7 (PDT) |
| ZIP code | 92398 |
| Area codes | 760/442 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1660414 |
| Website | parks |
| Reference no. | 782 |
Calico is a ghost town and former mining town in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Located in the Calico Mountains of the Mojave Desert region of Southern California, it was founded in 1881 as a silver mining town, and was later converted into a county park named Calico Ghost Town. Located off Interstate 15, it lies 3 miles (4.8 km) equidistant from Barstow and Yermo. Giant letters spelling CALICO are visible, from the highway, on the Calico Peaks behind it. Walter Knott purchased Calico in the 1950s, and rebuilt all but the five remaining original buildings to look as they did in the 1880s. Calico received California Historical Landmark #782,[2] and in 2005 was proclaimed by then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to be California's Silver Rush Ghost Town.[3]
- ^ "Calico". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved April 12, 2015.
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