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Tehachapi (/ t ə ˈ h æ tʃ ə p i / ⓘ; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [7] [8] is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet (1,210 m), [4] between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
The eastern Tehachapi foothills: panoramic view with the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm. The origin of the name Tehachapi may come from the Kawaiisu language, derived from the word "tihachipia" translated as "hard climb". [11] The historic Indigenous peoples of California with homelands in the Tehachapi Mountains were the: Kitanemuk; Kawaiisu [12 ...
Tehachapi Pass (Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [2] [3] is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California. Traditionally, the pass marks the northeast end of the Tehachapis and the south end of the Sierra Nevada range. The route is a principal connector between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
The Sebastian Indian Reservation California Historical Landmark number 133, signed January 31, 1934, reads: NO. 133 SEBASTIAN INDIAN RESERVATION - The Sebastian or Tejón Indian Reservation (headquarters ten miles east of here) was established in 1853 by General Edward Fitzgerald Beale as one of several California reservations. The number of ...
The largest open pit mine in California, which mines borax, is at Boron. [64] As of October 1, 2016, Kern County contains nearly 25% of California's in-state renewable energy production, including 1,785 MW of solar power and 3,310 MW of wind power. [65] Kern County is home to the Tehachapi Energy Storage Project, which was commissioned in 2014 ...
The Tehachapi Loop is a 3,779-foot-long (0.72 mi; 1.15 km) spiral, [1] or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad Mojave Subdivision through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert.
NO. 97 OAK CREEK PASS - In 1776, Father Francisco Garcés used the Oak Creek Pass to return to the Mojave after exploring the San Joaquin Valley, as did Frémont in 1844-1845. Until the railroad was built through the Tehachapi Pass in 1876, Oak Creek Pass was the only route used through the Tehachapi Mountains.
Tehachapi Mountains surrounding Tehachapi, California, and often considered the southern boundary of Central California; Tehachapi Municipal Airport (KTSP) in Tehachapi, California; Tehachapi News, based in Tehachapi, California; Tehachapi Pass in the Tehachapi Mountains Tehachapi Loop, the railroad engineering feat enabling trains to traverse ...