Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Kern County, California. / 35.34; -118.72. 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.
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 River ...
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 ...
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.
Meadows Field ( IATA: BFL, ICAO: KBFL, FAA LID: BFL) is a public airport in Kern County, California, United States, three miles northwest of downtown Bakersfield. [1] It is the main airport for the Bakersfield area, and one of two international airports in the San Joaquin Valley, the other Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
Central Bakersfield includes the civic center, the Arts District, the Lowell Community, and the Oleander Community. It contains the oldest portions of the city; Downtown, Bakersfield's central business district is located there. It also houses Chester Market, Lowell Place Senior Center, the Kern County Museum, and the Kern County Chamber of ...
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 ...