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kerncounty.com. Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. [ 8 ] Its county seat is Bakersfield. [ 10 ] Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley.
The Kiavah Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the Mojave Desert, Scodie Mountains, and southern Sierra Nevada in Kern County, California, United States. California State Route 178 connects the town of Lake Isabella to State Highway 14 in the east, crossing Walker Pass at the north boundary of the wilderness.
César E. Chávez National Monument, [ 3 ] also known as Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, is a 116-acre (47 ha) U.S. National Monument in Keene, Kern County, California, located about 32 miles away from Bakersfield, California. The property was the headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW), and home to César Chávez from the early 1970s ...
Canebrake Ecological Reserve is a 6,700-acre (27 km 2) [2] nature reserve in the South Fork Valley of Kern County, 20 miles (32 km) east of Lake Isabella, California. It is located in the Southern Sierra Nevada region. Historian Wallace M. Morgan, in History of Kern County, California, wrote that the South Fork Valley was the first area settled ...
Kernville is a census-designated place (CDP) in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Kern County, California, United States. [ 4 ] Kernville is located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Bakersfield, [ 6 ] at an elevation of 2,667 feet (813 m). [ 4 ] The population was 1,549 at the 2020 United States census, [ 5 ] up from 1,395 at the 2010 census, but ...
September 25, 1997. View of the route, 1920. The Ridge Route, officially the Castaic–Tejon Route and colloquially known as the Grapevine, [3] was a two-lane highway between Los Angeles County and Kern County, California. Opened in 1915 and paved with concrete between 1917 and 1921, the road was the first paved highway directly linking the Los ...
Reference no. 100. Havilah was an unincorporated community in Kern County, California [ 1 ] that was completely leveled by the 2024 Borel Fire. [ 2 ] The land is located in the mountains between Walker Basin and the Kern River Valley, [ 3 ] 5 miles (8.0 km) south-southwest of Bodfish [ 4 ] at an elevation of 3,136 feet (956 m).
Buttonwillow, California. Buttonwillow[ 3 ] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California. Buttonwillow is 26 miles (42 km) west of Bakersfield, [ 3 ] at an elevation of 269 feet (82 m)). [ 2 ] The population was 1,508 at the 2010 census, up from 1,266 at the 2000 census.