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Kern County is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 909,235. [4] Its county seat is Bakersfield. [6]
Bakersfield's historic and primary industries are related to Kern County's two main industries: oil and agriculture. Kern County in 2013 was the most oil productive county in the US. [76] [77] Kern County is a part of the highly productive San Joaquin Valley and ranks in the top five most productive agricultural counties in the nation. [77]
Tehachapi experienced the 7.3 magnitude 1952 Kern County earthquake on the White Wolf Fault. At the time, the earthquake was the largest in Southern California in the twentieth century and the largest since the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake. It was felt as far away as Reno, Nevada. Twelve people died in the quake and severe damage was done to ...
Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake). It was incorporated as a city in 1963.
Natural history of Kern County, California (1 C, 39 P) O. Organizations based in Kern County, California (2 C) P. People from Kern County, California (9 C, 29 P) S.
This week on Kern County In Depth, we examine the far-reaching implications of children growing up in a screen-saturated world.
A node of warehouses has existed in Kern County since the early 2000s, with Ikea, Caterpillar, Famous Footwear, L’Oreal and Dollar General moving into the Tejon Ranch Commerce Center along the ...
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.