Yermo (Spanish for "wilderness" or "wasteland")[4] is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California.

Today, Yermo is governed by an elected five-member board of directors comprising the Community Services District authorized by the County of San Bernardino.

The board, which meets monthly, oversees the community's volunteer fire department, the Yermo/Calico VFD, as well as its street lighting, parks and water system.

Yermo hosts the 1,859-acre (7.5 km2) storage and industrial annex of the Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow.

At the time, Yermo and Barstow were campaigning to establish a state park at Calico,[7] which was an active silver mining town from the early 1880s until the turn of the 20th century.

It operates K-12 schools in the communities of Yermo, Daggett and Newberry Springs, and at the U.S. Army National Training Center at Ft.