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  2. Bakersfield, California - Wikipedia

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    Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km 2) [9] [10] near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population as of the 2020 Census was 403,455, [11] making it the 48th-most populous city in the ...

  3. Downtown Bakersfield - Wikipedia

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    93301. Area Code. 661. Downtown is the central business district for Bakersfield, California. It contains several of the city's major theaters, sports complex, museums, and historical landmarks. What is considered to be “downtown” Bakersfield varies. Starting from the north and traveling clockwise, Central Bakersfield is bound by the Kern ...

  4. Kern County, California - Wikipedia

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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. [9] Its county seat is Bakersfield. [11] Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley.

  5. California State University, Bakersfield - Wikipedia

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    MPSF. Pac-12. Website. www .csub .edu. California State University, Bakersfield ( CSUB, Cal State Bakersfield, or CSU Bakersfield) is a public university in Bakersfield, California. It was established in 1965 as Kern State College and officially in 1968 as California State College Bakersfield on a 375-acre (152 ha) campus, becoming the 20th ...

  6. Timeline of Bakersfield, California - Wikipedia

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    1976 – Bakersfield Department of Water Resources established. 1977. December: Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977. Mesa Marin Raceway opens. 1980 – California Living Museum (zoo) founded. 1983 – County Food Bank established. [8] [2] 1990. Hindu Temple of Kern County founded.

  7. The Bakersfield Californian - Wikipedia

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    The Bakersfield Californian is the direct descendant of Kern County 's first newspaper, The Weekly Courier, which was first published on Aug. 18, 1866, in Havilah, California. At that time, Havilah, a small mining town about 50 miles northeast of the present site of Bakersfield, was the center of the 1864 gold rush, which brought the first ...

  8. Bakersfield Police Department - Wikipedia

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    Website. Bakersfield Police. The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement within the city of Bakersfield, California, in the United States. It has over 590 officers and professional staff, covering an area of 151.2 square miles (392 km 2) serving an urban population of more than 400,000.

  9. Bakersfield sound - Wikipedia

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    The Bakersfield sound is a sub- genre of country music developed in the mid-to-late 1950s in and around Bakersfield, California. [1] Bakersfield is defined by its influences of rock and roll and honky-tonk style country, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats. [2] It was also a reaction against the slickly produced ...