Black Mountains (California)

Black Mountains
A hiker walks up Dante's View, in the Black Mountains
Highest point
Peak	Funeral Peak (Black Mountains (California))
Elevation	6,384 ft (1,946 m)
Geography
Show map of California Show map of the US Black Mountains[1]
Country	United States
State	California
District	Inyo County
Range coordinates	36°08′56″N 116°39′31″W / 36.1488°N 116.6587°W / 36.1488; -116.6587Coordinates: 36°08′56″N 116°39′31″W / 36.1488°N 116.6587°W / 36.1488; -116.6587
Topo map	USGS Dantes View

The Black Mountains are a mountain range located in the southeastern part of Inyo County, California, within southeastern Death Valley National Park.

Geography

The Black Mountains are a southern range of the Amargosa Range System, and lie in a generally north-south direction at their southwestern end. Their formation has been classified as the Amargosa Chaos.

Lower Death Valley lies to the west & southwest of the Black Mountains section, with Greenwater Valley and the Greenwater Range to the northeast. The Black Mountains and Greenwater Range abut the Funeral Mountains on the north, also at the southern terminus of the Amargosa Range. The Amargosa River turns south-southwest, around the three sub-ranges, then northwest into Death Valley. The Owlshead Mountains are to the south across the Amargosa River and its steep descent into Death Valley.

Features

The range reaches an elevation of 6,384 feet (1,946 m) above sea level at Funeral Peak. Dante's View and Coffin Peak lie at the northern end of the range. The Amargosa Desert is

History

The Lila C Mine, of "The Borax King" Francis Marion Smith and his Pacific Coast Borax Company, was developed to mine borax just east of the range. Around 1914 he built the Death Valley Railroad to primarily serve the newer Ryan C. Mine above it within the Black Mountains, with a spur to the Lila C. tracks

See also

• Gower Gulch (Death Valley)
• Death Valley
• Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert

References

• Allan, Stuart (2005). California Road and Recreation Atlas. Benchmark Maps. p. 88. ISBN 0-929591-80-1. 

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Death Valley Railroad from the Black Mountains to Amargosa Desert.

Geography of Death Valley National Park area.

Municipalities and communities of Inyo County, California, United States
County seat: Independence
City	Bishop
CDPs	Big Pine Cartago Darwin Dixon Lane-Meadow Creek Furnace Creek Homewood Canyon Independence Keeler Lone Pine Mesa Olancha Pearsonville Round Valley Shoshone Tecopa Trona Valley Wells 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 Coso Coso Junction Crater Death Valley Junction Deep Springs Dolomite Dunmovin Evelyn Fish Springs Grant Haiwee Harrisburg Homewood Canyon-Valley Wells Indian Village Junction Ranch Kearsarge Keough Hot Springs Laws Linnie Little Lake Millspaugh Mock Monola Oteys Sierra Village Owenyo Panamint Springs Park Village Peterson Mill Poleta Reward Rocking K Rovana Ryan Scranton Seven Pines Stovepipe Wells Sykes Talus Teakettle Junction Whitney Portal Zurich
Indian reservations	Big Pine Reservation Lone Pine Reservation
Ghost towns	Ashford Mill Avena Bend City Bradford Siding Burnt Wagons Carthage Cerro Gordo Landing Cerro Gordo Chloride City Chrysopolis Clark Copperfield Coso Dunmovin Echo Elna Furnace Furnace Creek Inn Greenwater Gerstley Horton Intake Jay Kasson Kearsarge Lane Mill Leadfield Lee Lila C Lone Pine Station Lookout City Manzanar Narka Newburyport 9 Mile Station Noonday Camp Owensville Panamint City Reilly Roachville San Carlos Scheelite Schwaub Skidoo Skyes Sodan Stewarts Sunland Swansea Tule Station White Mountain City