Independence (California)

Independence
Independence Location in California
Basic data
State :	United States
State :	California
County :	Inyo County
Coordinates :	36 ° 48 ′  N , 118 ° 12 ′  W Coordinates: 36 ° 48 ′  N , 118 ° 12 ′  W
Time zone :	Pacific ( UTC − 8 / −7 )
Residents :	574 (status: 2000)
Population density :	55.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	10.4 km 2  (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 10.4 km 2  (about 4 mi 2 ) is land
Height :	1198 m
Postal code :	93526
Area code :	+1 760
FIPS :	06-36350
GNIS ID :	1658811

Independence is a census-designated place in Inyo County in the US state of California with 574 residents. The area of ​​the place amounts to 10.4 km². The population density is 55.4 / km². Independence is located in the Owens Valley on Independence Creek , a tributary of the Owens River .

history

Since the beginning of the 1860s, many prospectors stayed on the way to the gold fields of California in the Owens Valley, so on July 4, 1862 , an outpost of the US Army was set up on Oak Creek , 4 km north of today's Independence, the camp Independence . Independence was named after this. When Inyo Country was established in 1866, Independence was designated as its administrative seat.

In the 1940s, the Manzanar War Relocation Center , an internment camp for Japanese and Japanese Americans , was set up 10 km south of the town center as part of the internment of Japanese Americans from a restricted zone on the west coast. In mid-1943, over 10,000 people were held there behind barbed wire. Both the Manzanar National Historic Site and the Eastern California Museum in Independence provide information about their fate .

Web links

Commons : Independence, California  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the Chamber of Commerce of Independence ( English )