Hodge, California
unincorporated community in California
Hodge is an unincorporated community in the Mojave Desert, within San Bernardino County, California, United States.
Hodge is located along historic U.S. Route 66 and the Mojave River, 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Barstow and north of the Victor Valley.
History
The settlement was named after ranch owners Gilbert and Robert Hodge. Hodge was a railroad station, supplying water from wells into the usually subterranean Mojave River. It was a desert stop on U.S. Route 66 between Barstow and Victorville. By 1952 Hodge was no longer active until new houses were built in the late 1980s.
“Hodge, California” enters the record as unincorporated community in California. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hodge, California and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14682277. Authority coordinates are 34.816, -117.193. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952.
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