Manhole Covers of Mojave, California
Created 3 June 2006
This page was last updated on 23 November 2008
All photos copyrighted by David L. Magney 2006
Manhole Covers of Mojave, California
Mojave is a small desert (unicorporated) town on State Route 14 and SR 58, in southeastern Kern County, at an elevation of 2,747 feet above sea level. Mojave occupies 58.4 square miles. Mining was the primary industry supporting Mojave, now home for families of Air Force personel stationed at Edwards Air Force Base to the southeast. Mojave has a major railroad yard on the west side of town, including Burlington Northern-Santa Fe. Mojave has a population of 3,836 in the 2000 census in 1,408 households of 940 families. The median family income in Mojave is $28,496 with per capita income at $12,477, a pretty poor town. Mojave is located in the northwestern Mojave Desert. The Mojave Airport, just outside the town, is the boneyard for commerical airplanes. Hundreds of passanger airplanes, including Boeing 747s, are retired here. One client of mine bought one of them (a 747) in 2005 to use as parts (wings, nose cone, tail) for her new home in the Ventura County portion of the Santa Monica Mountains. Mojave served as the western terminis for the 20-mule borax teams, bringing surface-mined borax from Death Valley, and Searless Dry Lake. The first 20-mule team wagon was built in Mojave.
The two covers below are at the Shell gas station, one providing access to a tank cleanout, the smaller one to a filling nossle for the underground fuel tanks.
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