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Crater
Crater
Former mine
	Crater Location in California Crater Crater (the United States)
	Coordinates: 37°12′58″N 117°41′14″W / 37.21611°N 117.68722°W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation	5,305 ft (1,617 m)

Crater was an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.^[1] It is located in the Last Chance Range 19 miles (31 km) northwest of Ubehebe Crater,^[2] at an elevation of 5305 feet (1617 m).^[1]

Human activity at the site was primarily concerned with production of sulfur, which was discovered in 1917. Sulfur mining and ore milling operations occurred at Crater intermittently from 1917 through the late 1960s. The site is a privately owned inholding surrounded by Death Valley National Park.

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Description of Sulfur mining operations at Crater

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^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crater, California
^ Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1157. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crater, California

[CGN-2] Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 1157. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.

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Crater
Former mine
Crater Location in California Show map of California Crater Crater (the United States) Show map of the United States
Coordinates: 37°12′58″N 117°41′14″W / 37.21611°N 117.68722°W / 37.21611; -117.68722
Country	United States
State	California
County	Inyo County
Elevation ^[1]	5,305 ft (1,617 m)

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