Cadiz, California

The town was named in 1883 by Lewis Kingman, a locating engineer for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. It is the third in a string of alphabetically named railroad stations in the Mojave Desert.{{cite book|first=Erwin|last=Gudde|author2=William Bright |title=California Place Names|year=2004|edition=Fourth|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=0-520-24217-3|page=11}}

This area has a large amount of sunshine year round due to its stable descending air and high pressure.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}

The Cadiz Valley area overlies a large aquifer.

Cadiz, Inc., a Los Angeles–based land and water-resource-management company, owns more than {{convert|35000|acre|km2}} around Cadiz.{{Cite web |last1=Stringfellow |first1=Kim |last2=Sizek |first2=Julia |date=2018-02-05 |title=A 'Chinatown'-Worthy Water Conspiracy Unfolds in the Mojave |url=https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/the-trouble-with-cadiz |access-date=2022-09-22 |website=KCET |language=en}} It has plans to sell water from the aquifer.

{{Citation

| last =Swift

| first = Jim

| title =Riders on the Storm

| newspaper = The Weekly Standard

| date =November 9, 2015

| url =http://www.weeklystandard.com/riders-on-the-storm/article/1060864

| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160831045004/http://www.weeklystandard.com/riders-on-the-storm/article/1060864

| url-status =dead

| archive-date =August 31, 2016

| access-date =May 28, 2017 }}

{{Citation

| last =Finley

| first = Allysia

| title =Trying to Get Water to California but Torpedoed by Regulators

| newspaper = The Wall Street Journal

| date =April 8, 2016

| url =https://www.wsj.com/articles/trying-to-get-water-to-california-but-torpedoed-by-regulators-1460154453

| access-date =May 26, 2017 }}{{Citation

| title =The Pipeline and the Short Seller

| newspaper=The Wall Street Journal

| date =August 16, 2016

| url =https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-pipeline-and-the-short-seller-1471388783

| access-date = May 26, 2017}} Under the first Trump administration's change of policy, the project would not have to undergo federal review.{{Cite news|

last =Boxall

| first = Bettina

| title =Trump eases the way for a controversial water pumping project in a California desert

| newspaper =Los Angeles Times

| date =April 4, 2017

| url =http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-trump-cadiz-20170404-story.html}} In 2022, officials at Biden’s Interior Department petitioned a federal judge to throw out project approvals issued in 2020.{{Cite news |last=Hiltzik |first=Michael |date=2021-12-06 |title=Column: Has Biden moved to finally kill California's most farcical water project? |url=https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-12-06/biden-kills-cadiz-water-project-in-california |access-date=2022-09-22 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Cadiz is on the BNSF Railway's Southern Transcon line that runs from Los Angeles to Chicago. It was previously the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line. From Cadiz, the Arizona & California Railroad runs over a former ATSF line to Phoenix via Parker, Arizona.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

In September 2013, Cadiz, Inc. negotiated the Arizona & California Railroad for trackage rights for a tourist train operation between Cadiz and Parker. The train was projected to be powered by a steam locomotive, listing Santa Fe 3751 as the potential engine. The plans also required a new station and museum in Cadiz.{{cite news|title=Cadiz Inc. Announces Agreement to Operate Steam Powered Excursion Train on the Arizona & California Railroad|url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130919006157/en/Cadiz-Announces-Agreement-Operate-Steam-Powered-Excursion|access-date=2016-04-10|work=Business Wire|date=2013-09-19}}

Cadiz Airstrip (CA90) is situated south of the railroad tracks and has one paved runway 8/26 with a length of {{convert|5280|ft|m}}. The airstrip is accessible via a dirt road and has no buildings.{{Cite web|url=http://www.airnav.com/airport/CA90|title = AirNav: CA90 - Cadiz Airstrip}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in San Bernardino County, California

Category:Populated places in the Mojave Desert

Category:Unincorporated communities in California

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