FSKC (Former Settlement Kern County) Reefer City
Reefer City (no, not "that" kind of reefer) is a ghost town in Kern County, California. It was located 3.25 miles (5.2 km) south-southwest of Mojave at an elevation of 2762 feet (842 m). Reefer City still appeared on maps as late as 1947. (See 1947 map in log photos.) The cache is at the actual location of the settlement.
Reefer City was established in June 1936 by Consolidated Gold Fields of South Africa, formerly Gold Fields of South Africa Limited, a company founded and based in London, after a gold lode was discovered on Soledad Mountain near Mojave. The company purchased refrigerator cars, known colloquially as "reefers", from the Southern Pacific Railroad to house the miners. After the mine closed in 1942, the community housed military personnel from Edwards Air Force Base until the 1960s. In 1971, Reefer City was purchased and demolished by a salvage company.