Bodie
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ghost town in California, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- California
- County
- Mono
- Elevation
- 8,379 ft (2,554 m)
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Area codes
- 442/760
- Climate
- Dsc
- Website
- Bodie State Historic Park
- Location
- California
- Nearest city
- Bridgeport, California
- Architectural style
- Various; Southwestern U.S. frontier-style, late-19th to early-20th century.
- Added to nrhp
- October 15, 1966
- Designated nhld
- July 4, 1961
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ghost town
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Mono County
- Population
- 0
- Elevation
- 2554
- Time zone
- Pacific Time Zone
- Official website
- www.bodie.com
- Image
- Bodie ghost town.jpg
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- product or material produced
- gold
- Commons category
- Bodie, California
- heritage designation
- California Historical Landmark
- described at URL
- www.icmm.com/en-gb/research/data/2025/global-mining-dataset
- P12749
- Atriplex longipes
- Commons gallery
- Bodie, California
- inception
- 1876-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Bodie (/ˈboʊdiː/ BOH-dee) is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States. It is about 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe, and 12 mi (19 km) east-southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379 feet (2,554 m). Bodie became a boom town in 1876 (150 years ago) (1876) after the discovery of a profitable vein of gold; by 1879 it had established 2,000 structures with a population of roughly 8,000 people.
The town went into decline in the subsequent decades and came to be described as a ghost town by 1915 (111 years ago) (1915). The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bodie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.