Cantil (
Spanish
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**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
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for "Stone Cliff") is an
unincorporated community
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in
Kern County
Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield.
Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county sp ...
,
California
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.
It is in the
Fremont Valley The Fremont Valley is a valley located in the western Mojave Desert of California.
It stretches from the town of Mojave approximately 70 km northeast to the foothills of the Lava Mountains and Summit Range.
The valley is home to Koehn Dry ...
of the western
Mojave Desert
The Mojave Desert ( ; mov, Hayikwiir Mat'aar; es, Desierto de Mojave) is a desert in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Southwestern United States. It is named for the indigenous Mojave people. It is located primarily ...
.
Geography
It is located on
California State Route 14, between
Mojave and
Red Rock Canyon. It is at an elevation of ,
southwest of
Saltdale.
Its
zip code is 93519, and it uses
area codes 442 and 760.
The Red Rock Elementary School and Red Rock Community Day School are in Cantil. Both help students who were not successful in the regular school system.
History
Cantil was founded as a station on the
Nevada and California Railroad in 1908 or 1909 when the line was extended from
Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California. It is about south of Lone Pine, California. Unlike most dry lakes in the Basin and Range Province that have been dry for ...
to Mojave.
The name is
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
for "stone cliff" or "steep rock", and is one of a series of "C" names chosen for this section of the line including Cambio,
Cinco, and Ceneda. The first post office opened in 1916.
Parts of scenes of
Universal
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's 1932 horror film ''
The Mummy'' were filmed here.
Cantil is near the home of the
Honda Proving Center of California (HPCC), a test track used for testing new car models and motorcycles. Honda closed the test facility in April 2010 and put it up for sale; on December 8, 2015, the company announced that they would renovate and expand the HPCC, with some new vehicle test road enhancements and reopen the facility in April 2016.
On October 31, 2014, the
Virgin Galactic
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SpaceShipTwo ''
VSS Enterprise
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''
crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, killing one of the two pilots.
Climate
According to the
Köppen Climate Classification
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system, Cantil has a
cold desert climates, abbreviated "BWk" on climate maps.
Climate Summary for Cantil, California
/ref> Average rainfall is just . The highest temperature ever recorded in Cantil was in 1972. The lowest temperature on record was , recorded in 1963. The average daily high for January is , with average lows of . High temperatures average in July with average lows of .
References
Unincorporated communities in Kern County, California
Populated places in the Mojave Desert
Populated places established in 1908
1908 establishments in California
Unincorporated communities in California
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