Red Mountain, California

Unincorporated community in California, United States

35°21′30″N 117°37′00″W / 35.35833°N 117.61667°W / 35.35833; -117.61667CountryUnited StatesStateCaliforniaCounty San BernardinoElevation

^[1]

3,401 ft (1,037 m)Population

(2010^[1])

• Total131^[1]Time zoneUTC-8 (Pacific (PST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-7 (PDT)ZIP code

93558

Area codes442/760GNIS feature ID1661291^[2]

Red Mountain, formerly known as Osdick, is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Red Mountain was established in 1919 as Osdick, a silver mine boom town^[3] Red Mountain is 32 miles (51 km) south-southwest of Trona, part of the mining district of Randsburg, California and Johannesburg, California.

Red Mountain has a post office with ZIP code 93558.^[4] The post office opened under the name Osdick in 1922 and changed its name to Red Mountain in 1929.^[5]

In 2022, the community received a $1.5 million grant to clean sediment of arsenic from historic gold and silver mining from the kelly mine complex^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Red Mountain Mining Town".
^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ "29_North_Desert_CAG_2020.pdf" (PDF). San Bernardino County.
^ "Free ZIP Code Lookup with area code, county, geocode, MSA/PMSA, population".
^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 1460. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
^ "Historic mining town plagued by arsenic gets federal funds for cleanup effort". San Bernardino Sun. November 27, 2022. Retrieved November 29, 2022.