USAKOS

It develops from workshops of a copper-mining company. It was administered by a village management board from 1927. And attained municipal status in 1948. The name is derived from Khoi-khoi and probably means ‘place which grabs the hoof’, referring to the sticky yellow clay at the spring. 
Dutch Reformed Church
•    Dutch Reformed Church -. Next to B2 at entrance to town. The cornerstone was laid by Rev FJW Koch on 10 April 1936
Roman Catholic Church
•    Roman Catholic Church – erected in 1905.
Old water tank tower
•    Old water tank tower – Railway yard – The water was supplied to the steam trains until circa 1960 when the lines were dieselised. The lines were broadened from a narrow gauge (2 feet) to a bigger gauge (3 feet 6 inches) in 1960. The old vane on top of the tower is dated 1907
Railway sheds
•    Railway sheds – circa 1907. The railway lines were completed in 1906.
Old Steam Locomotive
•    Old Steam Locomotive – Henschel #40 built in 1912 by Henschel & Sohn in Cassel, Germany.
•    Old business buildings
•    Usakos Museum – dated 1908
Gross Spitzkoppe
•    Gross Spitzkoppe – between Usakos and Swakopmund – The “Matterhorn of Namibia”. The sharply pointed inselberg is towering about 700m above the plains. 
Trekkopje battlefield
•    Trekkopje battlefield   A cemetery contain the graves of eight soldiers from South Africa and seven German soldiers who died here in a battle on 26 April 1915 during the SWA Campaign of WWI. It was a German assault on the SA held railway station of Trekkopje. This was the last German offensive in German SWA. The SA under Colonel Skinner, were using armoured cars in the battle.