Trona, California | unincorporated area / community

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Trona is an unincorporated community in San Bernardino County, California. In 2000 it had a population of 2,742. The town takes its name from the mineral trona, which is abundant in the lakebed.

Trona is known for its isolation and desolation, as well as the nearby Trona Pinnacles. The high school football team plays on the only dirt field in the United States (other than the arctic circle in Alaska.); the extreme heat and highly saline soil kills grass.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trona,_San_Bernardino_County,_California
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Coordinates:   35°46'1"N   117°22'19"W

Comments

  • The one possibly positive aspect of Trona is their fairly unique high school mascot, the Tornadoes.
  • I placed the following comment in the Searles Lake by error, it should have been in this spot about Trona: I hope things have changed for the better over the past 25 years. I drove through this area on the way to Death Valley. Dreary and stinking smell are the best ways I can describe it back then. Dreary in that everything looked down-troddened and covered with dust. Stink, the smell of rotten eggs permeated the region.
  • Trona is one of the most economically depressed places I've seen in the United States. The poverty in this town is staggering. It is shocking to see such a place in the U.S.
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