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The Kern River Parkway Trail is a system of hiking and biking trails that extends along the Kern River from the mouth of the canyon to Hart Park in Bakersfield, California. The trail system is part of the larger Kern River Parkway, which includes several parks, picnic areas, and green spaces along the river.
In return for Kern's service to the expedition, Frémont named it the Kern River. Gold was discovered near the valley in 1853, leading to the Kern River Gold Rush and the founding of Keyesville . On April 9, 1863, U.S. Army cavalry along with local settlers captured and executed 35 Tübatulabal and Kawaiisu men in what became known as the ...
The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is an agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA. Over 625 permanent employees and 100 extra help employees protect an area which spans over 8,000 square miles (21,000 km 2 ).
File:Map of California highlighting Kern County.svg. Add languages. ... English: Locator map showing Kern County — in central and southern California. Credits.
The Kern River Oil Field (purple) in south-central California. Other oil fields are shown in gray. Kern River drilling rigs, 1923 Kern River Oil Field aerial, 2012. Kern River Oil Field in 1910. The Kern River Oil Field is a large oil field in Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley of California, north-northeast of Bakersfield in the lower ...
The South Fork Kern River is a tributary of the Kern River in the Sierra Nevada of the U.S. state of California.It is one of the southernmost rivers on the western slope of the mountains, and drains a high, relatively dry plateau country of 982 square miles (2,540 km 2) along the Sierra Crest.
Kern Lake, [1] was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California. It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River . Kern Lake is now a dry lake bed, due to agricultural diversion of the Kern River waters and the aquifer .
Buena Vista Lake was a fresh-water lake in Kern County, California, in the Tulare Lake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Buena Vista Lake was the second largest of several similar lakes in the Tulare Lake basin, and was fed by the waters of the Kern River.