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Lake Isabella also called Isabella Lake, [1] [2] is a reservoir in Kern County, California, United States created by the earthen Isabella Dam. At 11,000 acres (4,500 ...
Lake Isabella was created in 1953 by a dam on the Kern River, forcing the town to move about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the original site. [6] The Isabella post office, which had opened in 1896, operated at the new site; the name was changed to Lake Isabella in 1957. [7] The dam's reservoir also inundated the original site of Kernville.
Kernville (previously Whiskey Flat, Rogersville, and Williamsburg) is a former settlement in the Kern River Valley of the Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California.It lay at an elevation of 2,575 feet (785 m) near the present-day town of Wofford Heights; [1] the site was submerged under the Lake Isabella reservoir in 1954.
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Isabella was a town in Kern County, California. [1] It was located 4.5 miles (7.2 km) north-northeast of Bodfish , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 2516 feet (767 m). [ 1 ] The site was inundated by Lake Isabella . [ 1 ]
Isabella Dam is an embankment dam located in the Kern River Valley, about halfway down the Kern River course, between the towns of Kernville and Lake Isabella in Kern County, California. Isabella Dam serves agricultural , hydroelectric , and flood control uses. [ 2 ]
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Walker Pass (el. 5,250 ft (1,600 m)) is a mountain pass by Lake Isabella in the southern Sierra Nevada.It is located in northeastern Kern County, approximately 53 mi (85 km) ENE of Bakersfield and 10 mi (16 km) WNW of Ridgecrest.