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Lost Hills (formerly, Lost Hill) [2] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Lost Hills is located 42 miles (68 km) west-northwest of Bakersfield, [4] at an elevation of 305 feet (93 m). [2] The population was 2,412 at the 2010 census, up from 1,938 at the 2000 census.
The Lost Hills are a low mountain range in the Transverse Ranges, near Lost Hills, California and Interstate 5 in western Kern County, California. [ 1 ] They contain the Lost Hills Oil Field , the largest oil field in Kern County, and are located in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley .
Taft (formerly Moron, Moro, and Siding Number Two) [9] is a city in the foothills at the extreme southwestern edge of the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California.Taft is located 32 miles (51 km) west-southwest of Bakersfield, [9] at an elevation of 955 feet (291 m). [7]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Firefighters in Kern County were battling several wildfires over the weekend, spurring evacuations, burning thousands of acres and leading to the closure of Interstate 5 in both directions near ...
According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, [3] but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in The Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father, William H. Mettler, and his brother (unnamed) in the "late 1940s" in the Wheeler Ridge area, which settlement "later became known as Mettler Station."
The below map of evacuation zones is current as of Sunday at 7:30 p.m. ET. The zones highlighted in red are areas under evacuation orders due to the Eaton Fire as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Jan. 12.
Blackwells Corner is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. [1] It is located 50 miles (80 km) west-northwest of Bakersfield , [ 2 ] at an elevation of 650 feet (198 m). [ 1 ] Blackwells Corner is at the intersection of California State Route 46 and California State Route 33 , and was the last place James Dean was seen alive ...