page_title: Mojave, California
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Mojave, California / History
caption_attribution_description: English: 20 Mule Team Terminus: Sign in Mojave,CA
context_page_description: Mojave is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States. Mojave is located 50 miles east of Bakersfield, and 2.5 miles south of California City, at an elevation of 2,762 feet. The town is located in the southwestern region of the Mojave Desert, below and east of Oak Creek Pass and the Tehachapi Mountains.
  The population was 4,238 at the 2010 census, up from 3,836 at the 2000 census. Telephone numbers in Mojave follow the format 824-xxxx and the area includes three postal ZIP Codes.
context_section_description: The town of Mojave began in 1876 as a construction camp on the Southern Pacific Railroad. From 1884 to 1889, the town was the western terminus of the 165-mile (266 km), twenty-mule team at Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley. It later served as headquarters for construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
caption: 20 Mule Team Terminus: Sign in Mojave, CA
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