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Mojave Unified School District
Mojave Unified School District is a school district in Eastern Kern County that serves the town of Mojave and The City of California City, California (USA). List of schools High schools * California City High School * Mojave Junior/Senior High School Middle schools * California City Middle School Elementary schools * Hacienda Elementary School * Mojave Elementary School * Robert P. Ulrich Elementary School Transportation Department MUSD's transportation department operates the oldest school bus owned by a school district in California, a 1951 Crown Supercoach. Apart from the 1951 Crown, Mojave operates an array of other Crown Supercoaches, Blue Bird All Americans, Thomas Built Rear Engines, and IC REs. See also *List of school districts in California *Southern Kern Unified School District *Muroc Joint Unified School District Muroc Joint Unified School District is a public K-12 unified school system of approximately 2,000 students, located in the Mojave Desert The Moj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mojave, California
Mojave (formerly Mohave) is an Unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Kern County, California, United States. Mojave is located east of Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield, and north of Los Angeles, at an elevation of . The town is located in the western region of the Mojave Desert, below and east of Oak Creek Pass and the Tehachapi Mountains. Mojave is on the Pacific Crest Trail. The population was 4,238 at the 2010 census, up from 3,836 at the 2000 census. Telephone numbers in Mojave follow the format (661) 824-xxxx and the area includes three postal ZIP Codes. History The town of Mojave began in 1876 as a construction camp on the Southern Pacific Railroad. From 1884 to 1889, the town was the western terminus of the , twenty-mule team at Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley. It later served as headquarters for construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Mojave Airport: aviation and military use Located near Edwards Air Force Base, Naval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California
California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territories of the United States by population, most populous U.S. state and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 3rd largest by area. It is also the most populated Administrative division, subnational entity in North America and the 34th most populous in the world. The Greater Los Angeles area and the San Francisco Bay Area are the nation's second and fifth most populous Statistical area (United States), urban regions respectively, with the former having more than 18.7million residents and the latter having over 9.6million. Sacramento, California, Sacramento is the state's capital, while Los Angeles is the List of largest California cities by population, most populous city in the state and the List of United States cities by population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kern County, California
Kern County is a county (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 909,235. Its county seat is Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield. Kern County comprises the Bakersfield, California, Metropolitan statistical area. The county spans the southern end of the Central Valley (California), Central Valley. Covering , it ranges west to the southern slope of the California Coast Ranges, Coast Ranges, and east beyond the southern slope of the eastern Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada into the Mojave Desert, at the city of Ridgecrest, California, Ridgecrest. Its northernmost city is Delano, California, Delano, and its southern reach extends to just beyond Frazier Park, California, Frazier Park, and the northern extremity of the parallel Antelope Valley. The county's economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction. There is also a strong aviation, space, and military presence, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
California City, California
California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is north of the city of Los Angeles, and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census. Covering , California City has the third-largest land area of any city in the state of California, and is the largest city by land area in California that is not a county seat. Much of the workforce of Edwards Air Force Base, which is located southeast of the city, is made up of city residents. Other major sources of employment include California City Correctional Center (California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation); Mojave Air and Space Port and its flight test operations; and the Hyundai/Kia Proving Grounds located in the rural southwestern part of the city. California City has a park, a PGA golf course, and a municipal airport. History Early Padre Francisco Garcés, a Franciscan missionary, camped at Castle Butte in what is now California City in 1776 during the Jua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Supercoach
The Crown Supercoach is a bus that was constructed and marketed by Crown Coach Corporation from 1948 to 1991. While most examples were sold as yellow school buses, the Supercoach formed the basis for motorcoaches and other specialty vehicles using the same body and chassis. While technically available outside of the West Coast, nearly all Crown school buses were sold in Washington state, Oregon and California. From 1948 to 1984, the Supercoach was constructed at the Crown Coach facilities in Los Angeles, California; from 1984 to the 1991 closure of the company, the Supercoach was constructed in Chino, California. Design history 1932–1948 In 1932, Crown Motor Carriage Company built its first complete school bus, in a shift from building bus bodies on cowled truck chassis. Externally modeled after Twin Coach body designs, the school bus body used a front-engine layout, with the Waukesha gasoline engine positioned next to the driver. The body was of all-metal construction with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Bird All American
The Blue Bird All American is a series of buses produced by American school bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation (originally Blue Bird Body Company) since 1948. Originally developed as a yellow school bus (its most common configuration), versions of the All American have been designed for a wide variety of applications, ranging from the Blue Bird Wanderlodge luxury motorhome to buses for law enforcement use. While not the first transit-style school bus, the All American is the longest-produced model line currently in production; it is currently in its sixth generation.http://www.blue-bird.com/pressrelease.aspx?item=2012 Since 1952, Blue Bird has used a proprietary chassis for the All American, a practice later used for its TC/2000 and Vision buses (and their derivatives). The model line is produced with both front-engine and rear-engine configurations. Alongside the current generation of the All American (released in 2014), the model line underwent major redesigns in 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Built Buses
Thomas Built Buses, Inc. (commonly known as Thomas) is an American bus manufacturer. Best known for its production of yellow school buses, Thomas produces other bus designs for a variety of usages. Currently, its production is concentrated on school buses and activity buses, along with their commercial derivatives. Founded in 1916 as Perley A. Thomas Car Works, the company was renamed in 1972 to better represent its primary product lines. Headquartered since 1916 in High Point, North Carolina, Thomas has been a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America (the parent company of Freightliner) since 1998. Prior to its acquisition, the company was operated by the Perley A. Thomas family, the final major school bus manufacturer operated under family control. Since 1936, Thomas has produced school buses in High Point, North Carolina. In addition to bus bodies, the company also produces vehicle chassis for its Saf-T-Liner/Transit Liner EFX and HDX buses. History Foundation The ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IC Bus
IC Bus (originally IC Corporation) is an American bus manufacturer. Headquartered in Lisle, Illinois, IC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Navistar International. Established in 2002 by Navistar through the reorganization of subsidiary manufacturer American Transportation Corporation (AmTran), IC currently produces school buses and commercial-use buses for multiple applications. The IC company name stands for "Integrated Coach", alluding to how the vehicles are nearly completely assembled under a single corporate structure. For all vehicles, the body and chassis are assembled within the same manufacturing facility; the latter is designed by parent company Navistar (prior to 2015, Navistar included the engine). While using a chassis and hood shared with International-brand trucks, IC Bus vehicles have separate badging. Though sharing Illinois corporate headquarters with its parent company, IC vehicles are produced at the Tulsa, Oklahoma facility opened by AmTran in 1999, ending ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of School Districts In California
This is a list of school districts in California. California school districts are of several varieties, usually a Unified district, which includes all of the Elementary and High Schools in the same geographic area; Elementary school districts, which includes K–6 or K–8 schools only, which may have several elementary districts within one high school district's geographic area; and High School Districts, which include one or more high schools in the same geographic area. Elementary districts sometimes includes the word Elementary within their names, but often do not. Sometimes the words Joint and/or Union are included in the district's name. A joint school district serves students from more than one county. A union elementary school district was formed as the result of a merger between two previous school districts, while a union high school district serves students from multiple elementary school districts. The typical district grade configurations in California are elementa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Kern Unified School District
The Southern Kern Unified School District is a school district in Kern County that serves the unincorporated Northern Antelope Valley communities of Rosamond and Willow Springs, California (USA). The Southern Kern Unified School District has 8 schools: * 2 elementary schools * 1 junior high school * 1 high school * 2 independent study also known as home schools * 2 alternative education schools List of schools Elementary schoolsRosamond Elementary School Junior high schools High schools [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muroc Joint Unified School District
Muroc Joint Unified School District is a public K-12 unified school system of approximately 2,000 students, located in the Mojave Desert approximately northeast of Los Angeles. It was founded as an elementary school in 1911 at Edwards. Boron students were bussed to the air base for their education. As the area became more populated, another school was established in 1929, in Boron. The schools became a unified district in 1953, encompassing in Kern and San Bernardino counties. The District serves the communities of Boron (including Kramer Junction and Desert Lake), North Edwards and Edwards Air Force Base, and maintains five school sites: Boron Junior/Senior High School (7-12); Desert Junior/Senior High School (7-12); West Boron Elementary School (TK-6); Branch Elementary School (TK-6); and Lynch Learning Center (Adult Education). Both of the comprehensive high schools offer an alternative education program and have receivedWASC Accreditation . All of these schools have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
