About: Muroc, California

An Entity of Type: governmental administrative region, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Muroc (also, Rogers, Rod, Yucca, and Rodriguez) is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Mojave Desert. It was located on Rogers Dry Lake 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Edwards, at an elevation of 2283 feet (696 m). Muroc still appeared on maps as of 1942. Muroc's site is now on Edwards Air Force Base. After World War II Muroc served as an important test flight location; in 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Muroc vicinity.

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	Muroc (also, Rogers, Rod, Yucca, and Rodriguez) is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Mojave Desert. It was located on Rogers Dry Lake 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Edwards, at an elevation of 2283 feet (696 m). Muroc still appeared on maps as of 1942. Muroc's site is now on Edwards Air Force Base. After World War II Muroc served as an important test flight location; in 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Muroc vicinity. A post office operated at Muroc from 1910 to 1951. The name honors early settlers Ralph and Clifford Corum — their surname spelled backwards is "Muroc". (en)
dbo:country	dbr:United_States
dbo:elevation	695.858400 (xsd:double) 696.000000 (xsd:double)
dbo:subdivision	dbr:California dbr:Kern_County,_California
dbo:wikiPageID	22966972 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	2516 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	941023383 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:California dbr:Rogers_Dry_Lake dbc:Edwards_Air_Force_Base dbr:United_States dbr:Edwards,_California dbr:Edwards_Air_Force_Base dbr:Mojave_Desert dbc:Populated_places_in_the_Mojave_Desert dbc:Former_populated_places_in_California dbr:Kern_County,_California dbc:Former_settlements_in_Kern_County,_California dbr:Muroc_Army_Air_Field
dbp:elevationFt	2283 (xsd:integer)
dbp:elevationM	696 (xsd:integer)
dbp:name	Muroc (en)
dbp:pushpinLabelPosition	bottom (en)
dbp:pushpinMap	California (en)
dbp:pushpinMapCaption	Location in California (en)
dbp:settlementType	Former settlement (en)
dbp:subdivisionName	dbr:California dbr:United_States dbr:Kern_County,_California
dbp:subdivisionType	Country (en) State (en) County (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Authority_control dbt:Convert dbt:Coord dbt:For dbt:Infobox_settlement dbt:Reflist dbt:Kern_County,_California dbt:KernCountyCA-geo-stub
dcterms:subject	dbc:Edwards_Air_Force_Base dbc:Populated_places_in_the_Mojave_Desert dbc:Former_populated_places_in_California dbc:Former_settlements_in_Kern_County,_California
gold:hypernym	dbr:Settlement
georss:point	34.92305555555556 -117.87222222222222
rdf:type	owl:Thing dbo:Place dbo:Location schema:AdministrativeArea schema:Place dbo:Region wikidata:Q3455524 dbo:GovernmentalAdministrativeRegion dbo:Municipality wikidata:Q19730508 dbo:FormerMunicipality dbo:PopulatedPlace geo:SpatialThing yago:AdministrativeDistrict108491826 yago:District108552138 yago:GeographicalArea108574314 yago:Location100027167 yago:Object100002684 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:Region108630985 yago:YagoGeoEntity yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity dbo:AdministrativeRegion dbo:Settlement yago:Site108651247 yago:Tract108673395 yago:WikicatFormerPopulatedPlacesInCalifornia yago:WikicatFormerSettlementsInKernCounty,California yago:WikicatPopulatedPlacesInTheMojaveDesert
rdfs:comment	Muroc (also, Rogers, Rod, Yucca, and Rodriguez) is a former settlement in Kern County, California in the Mojave Desert. It was located on Rogers Dry Lake 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Edwards, at an elevation of 2283 feet (696 m). Muroc still appeared on maps as of 1942. Muroc's site is now on Edwards Air Force Base. After World War II Muroc served as an important test flight location; in 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Muroc vicinity. (en)
rdfs:label	Muroc, California (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:Muroc, California wikidata:Muroc, California yago-res:Muroc, California dbpedia-tr:Muroc, California https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4rf3j
geo:geometry	POINT(-117.87222290039 34.923053741455)
geo:lat	34.923054 (xsd:float)
geo:long	-117.872223 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Muroc,_California?oldid=941023383&ns=0
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Muroc,_California
foaf:name	Muroc (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of	dbr:Muroc,_CA dbr:Yucca,_CA dbr:Yucca,_California dbr:Rod,_California dbr:Rodriguez,_California dbr:Muroc
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_military_aircraft_(1945–1949) dbr:List_of_geographic_anagrams_and_anadromes dbr:Murphy's_law dbr:1947_in_aviation dbr:List_of_places_in_the_United_States_named_after_people dbr:List_of_ghost_towns_in_California dbr:List_of_places_in_California_(M) dbr:Northrop_N-1M dbr:Edwards,_California dbr:Muroc,_CA dbr:Yucca,_CA dbr:Leon_Stanislaw_Jablecki dbr:Edelbrock dbr:Yucca,_California dbr:August_1947 dbr:Speed_(1936_film) dbr:Rod,_California dbr:Rodriguez dbr:Rogers dbr:Rodriguez,_California dbr:Muroc
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Muroc,_California