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Chloride City
— Unincorporated community —
Chloride City Location in California
Coordinates: 36°42′24″N 116°52′56″W / 36.70667°N 116.88222°W / 36.70667; -116.88222Coordinates: 36°42′24″N 116°52′56″W / 36.70667°N 116.88222°W / 36.70667; -116.88222
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation ^[1]	4,770 ft (1,454 m)

Chloride City is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.^[1] It is located 8.5 miles (14 km) north-northeast of Beatty Junction,^[2] at an elevation of 4770 feet (1454 m).^[1]

Chloride City, California is a virtual ghost town in Death Valley. The town was established in 1905 when the Bullfrog, Nevada, gold discovery brought people into the area. The ghost town contains numerous adits and dumps and the grave of James McKay, of whom nothing is known. The town also holds the remains of three stamp mills.^[3]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographical Names Information System: Chloride City, California
^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Quill Driver Books. p. 1154. ISBN 9781884995149.
^ Death Valley Ghost Towns: National Park Service.

Death Valley and Death Valley National Park

Fauna, flora and minerals	Borax · Chuckwalla · Death Valley monkeyflower · Death Valley pupfish · Devils Hole pupfish · Salt Creek Pupfish

History	Badwater · Death Valley Railroad · Greenwater · Lake Manly (Badwater Basin) · Skidoo · Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad · Twenty-mule team

Places	Amargosa Range / River / Valley · Ash Meadows NWR · Badwater Basin · Ballarat · Beatty · Black Mountains · Chloride City · Cottonwood Mountains · Death Valley Junction · Eureka Dunes · Funeral Mountains · Furnace Creek · Panamint City / Range / Springs / Valley · Racetrack · Rhyolite · Scotty's Castle · Stovepipe Wells · Telescope Peak · Trona · Ubehebe Crater · Zabriskie Point

Transportation	California: SR 127 · SR 178 · SR 190 · Trona Railway · Nevada: US 95 · SR 267 · SR 373 · SR 374

Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California

County seat: Independence

City	Bishop

CDPs	Big Pine \| Cartago \| Darwin \| Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek \| Furnace Creek \| Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells \| Independence \| Keeler \| Lone Pine \| Mesa \| Olancha \| Pearsonville \| Round Valley \| Shoshone \| Tecopa \| West Bishop \| Wilkerson

Unincorporated communities	Aberdeen \| Alabama Hills \| Alico \| Alta Vista \| Ashford Junction \| Aspendell \| Badwater \| Ballarat \| Bartlett \| Beatty Junction \| Beveridge \| Blackrock \| Brockmans Corner \| Calvada Springs \| Chloride City \| Coso \| Coso Junction \| Crater \| Death Valley Junction \| Deep Springs \| Dolomite \| Dunmovin \| Evelyn \| Fish Springs \| Grant \| Greenwater \| Haiwee \| Harrisburg \| Indian Village \| Junction Ranch \| Kearsarge \| Keough Hot Springs \| Laws \| Leadfield \| Linnie \| Little Lake \| Manzanar \| Millspaugh \| Mock \| Monola \| Oteys Sierra Village \| Owenyo \| Panamint \| Panamint Springs \| Park Village \| Peterson Mill \| Poleta \| Reward \| Rocking K \| Rovana \| Ryan \| Scheelite \| Scranton \| Seven Pines \| Stovepipe Wells \| Swansea \| Sykes \| Talus \| Teakettle Junction \| Whitney Portal \| Zurich

Ghost towns	Ashford Mill \| Avena \| Bend City \| Bradford Siding \| Burnt Wagons \| Carthage \| Cerro Gordo Landing \| Chrysopolis \| Clark \| Copperfield \| Coso \| Echo \| Elna \| Furnace \| Furnace Creek Inn \| Grestley \| Horton \| Intake \| Jay \| Kasson \| Lane Mill \| Lee \| Lila C \| Lone Pine Station \| Lookout City \| Narka \| Nine Mile Station \| Owensville \| Reilly \| San Carlos \| Schwaub \| Skidoo \| Skyes \| Sodan \| Stewarts \| Sunland \| Tule Station

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