Silver City, California

About Silver City

Silver City is a small unincorporated community in eastern California.

Silver City holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.12 square miles.

📰 Silver City News Today

• An Hour From Bakersfield, California, Is A Ghost Town Museum That Looks Right Out Of A Western Movie islands.com · Jun 9
• Make Music Day in Silver City desertexposure.com · May 28
• Evacuation ordered for Eureka, Mammoth, Silver City KSL NewsRadio · Jun 26
• Obituary for Mary Ellen Fierro Baca's Funeral Chapels · Feb 18
• Silver City Ghost Town in Bodfish Atlas Obscura · Mar 26

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Silver City Unique

• One of 6 places in the US named Silver City — but the California one has a character all its own.
• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.12 sq mi.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in eastern California, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 22 miles.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Silver City

• The Peaks Restaurant

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🎡 Fun Things to Do

• Tunnel Log · Attraction
• Auto Log · Attraction
• Black Arch Tree · Attraction
• Booker T. Washington Tree · Attraction
• Buttress Tree · Attraction
• Cattle Cabin · Attraction
• Chief Sequoyah · Attraction
• Chimney Tree · Attraction
• Cleveland Tree · Attraction
• Colonel Young Tree · Attraction

Attractions mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Silver City

• Sequoia National Park · Nature reserve reviews ★
• John Krebs Wilderness · Nature reserve reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Silver City

🏘️ Nearby Communities