Yermo, CA

Yermo is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. The 2020 census counted 623 residents. Yermo is 13 miles east of Barstow on Interstate 15, just south of the Calico Mountains. A post office was established three years later with William J. When Interstate 15 opened in 1968, Yermo was immediately bypassed by traffic traveling to and from Las Vegas, Nevada. Yermo relocated in 2018 to just north of Mountain Pass, between Yates Well Road and Nipton Road. At the time, Yermo and Barstow were campaigning to establish a state park at Calico, which was an active silver mining town from the early 1880s until the turn of the 20th century.

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Yermo operates K-12 schools in the communities of Yermo, Daggett and Newberry Springs, and at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Yermo makes sense once you see how its past, landscape, and current gathering spots overlap. The useful thing to know about Yermo is that its older landmarks and current settings belong to one connected place.