Plaster City, California


Plaster City is an unincorporated community in Imperial County in the U.S. state of California. It is located west of El Centro, at an elevation of 105 feet.
United States Gypsum operates a large gypsum quarry and plant there and owns the town. The quarry was started in 1920 and was acquired by United States Gypsum in 1945. Plaster City has been noted for its unusual place name. It is the site of the last industrial narrow gauge railroad in the United States. The gauge line runs north to the gypsum quarry and brings gypsum from the quarry to the plant.
The first post office at Plaster City opened in 1924.
The ZIP Code is 92251. The community is inside area code 760.

Government

In the California State Legislature, Plaster City is in, and.
In the United States House of Representatives, Plaster City is in.

Publicity and Media

In the 1963 film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Ethel Merman's character is heard talking on a phone to her son, saying that she was "in some place called Plaster City."
Plaster City was briefly, in 1993, the locale of the fully restored Eureka Locomotive, one of the last narrow gauge steam locomotives from the height of railroad development in the West.