Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Yermo, CA

Yermo is an unincorporated desert community in San Bernardino County, California, about 13 miles east of Barstow on Interstate 15, just south of the Calico Mountains.

Its name is derived from a Spanish word for wilderness or desert.

Yermo was founded in 1902 under the name Otis, at a division point of the Union Pacific Railroad.

The community is governed locally by an elected five-member Community Services District board, and San Bernardino County's community profile, citing the 2010 census, put Yermo's population at 1,599.

The very first Del Taco restaurant opened in Yermo on September 16, 1964; the original building now houses a local burger restaurant.

When Interstate 15 opened in 1968 it bypassed Yermo, and many of the gas stations and other businesses that had served highway travelers closed.

Yermo hosts the Yermo Annex of Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow, an approximately 1,859-acre storage and industrial complex.

Children in the Yermo area attend schools in the Silver Valley Unified School District.

Yermo is known as the 'Gateway to the Calicos,' because Calico Road leads from town up to Calico Ghost Town.

Calico was founded in 1881 on one of the richest silver strikes in California history and produced more than $20 million in silver before being abandoned; Walter Knott of Knott's Berry Farm bought the town in 1951 for $13,500, restored it, and donated it to San Bernardino County in 1966, and it is now a county regional park.