Ермо: Неприхотливый уголок Мохаве

Unincorporated community in California, United States

Yermo (Spanish for "wilderness" or "wasteland") is an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California. It is 13 mile (21 km) east of Barstow on Interstate 15, just south of the Calico Mountains. Its population was estimated at 1,750 in 2009. Founded in 1902 and originally named Otis, Yermo is situated at a division point of the Union Pacific Railroad line. Yermo once had a California agriculture inspection station for traffic heading south on Interstate 15. It relocated in 2018 to just north of Mountain Pass, between Yates Well Road and Nipton Road.

In the mid 20th century, the Yermo Chamber of Commerce styled the community as the "Gateway to the Calicos", referring to its location about 3 mile (5 km) south of the Calico Mountains and the historic Calico Ghost Town. At the time, Yermo and Barstow were campaigning to establish a state park at Calico, which was an active silver mining town from the early 1880s until the turn of the 20th century. In 1952, former Calico resident and Knotts Berry Farm founder Walter Knott, whose uncle John King was once the town’s sheriff, and who worked at there as a carpenter in 1915, purchased Calico and restored it. He later deeded it to the San Bernardino County, which operates the site as a historical county park and a popular tourist attraction of the U. S. Southwest.

The Silver Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) is the education authority in the Yermo area. It operates K 12 schools in the communities of Yermo, Daggett and Newberry Springs, and at the U. S. Army National Training Center at Ft. Irwin.

In 2009 Yermo had three active churches, one Baptist and two non denominational/fundamentalist.

According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Yermo has a semi arid climate, abbreviated "BSk" on climate maps with long, very hot summers, sunny winters with cool nights and dry conditions year round.