Ivanpah ( Chemehuevi: "Clean Water") is in the

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. There are several residences in the area, but no real village. Ivanpah is located on the bajada below the northeast side of the

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overlooking the broad

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. The Ivanpah Mountains lie across the valley to the northwest.''Ivanpah, California—Nevada,'' 30x60 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985 Ivanpah is located at the crossing of Ivanpah Road and the Union Pacific Railroad, which was the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad until 1921 when it was bought out by Union Pacific. There was once a general store located here. The original name for this crossing was Leastalk. The California Eastern Railway crossed the LA&SL railroad at this location. The California Eastern Railway became part of California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway, which abandoned operations in 1918, with the tracks being pulled up in 1921. Ivanpah is also the home of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the largest thermal solar power facility in the world, which opened officially on February 13, 2014.

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Unincorporated communities in San Bernardino County, California Populated places in the Mojave Desert Unincorporated communities in California {{SanBernardinoCountyCA-geo-stub