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Area Code 661
Area code 661 is a California telephone area code that covers the majority of Kern County, as well as part of Los Angeles County, Santa Barbara County, and Tulare County. It was split from area code 805 on February 13, 1999. Principal cities in the 661 area code are Bakersfield, Palmdale, Santa Clarita, and Lancaster. Places in the 661 area code Kern County *Arvin *Bakersfield * Bear Valley Springs *Buttonwillow * Caliente *Delano *Edwards Air Force Base * Famoso * Fellows * Frazier Park * Golden Hills *Grapevine *Havilah * Keene * Lake of the Woods *Lamont *Lebec *Lost Hills *Maricopa *McFarland * McKittrick * Mettler * Mojave * North Edwards * Oildale *Pine Mountain Club *Rosamond * Rosedale * Shafter * South Taft * Stallion Springs * Taft * Taft Heights * Tehachapi * Tupman * Valley Acres * Walker Basin *Wasco *Weedpatch *Wheeler Ridge Los Angeles County *Acton * Agua Dulce * Antelope Acres *Castaic *Del Sur * Desert View Highlands * Gorman * Green Valley *Juniper Hills * ... [...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] |
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angeles County. The hub of the base is Edwards, California. The base was named after World War II USAAF veteran and test pilot Capt. Glen Edwards in 1950; prior to then the facility was named Muroc Air Force Base. It is the home of the Air Force Test Center, Air Force Test Pilot School, and NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center. It is the Air Force Materiel Command center for conducting and supporting research and development of flight, as well as testing and evaluating aerospace systems from concept to combat. It also hosts many test activities conducted by America's commercial aerospace industry. Notable occurrences at Edwards include Chuck Yeager's flight that broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1, test flights of the North American X-15, the first landings of the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFarland, California
McFarland (formerly, Hunt and Lone Pine) is a city in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, Kern County, California, United States. McFarland is located north-northwest of Bakersfield and south of Delano, California, Delano, at an elevation of . The population of McFarland was 12,707 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census and an estimated 15,506 as of 2019. History In the early 1900s, an educator named James Boyd McFarland moved to the Anaheim, California, Anaheim area from Zanesville, Ohio, to try his hand at real estate and walnut farming. McFarland visited Kern County in 1907 and was impressed with the land's crop-growing potential near a community called Hunt's Siding, which was a small agriculture and livestock-based community that served about 50 families. With help from Bakersfield, California, Bakersfield real estate businessman William Laird, McFarland bought 50 acres at the location of what is now McFarland. The first post office opened in 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maricopa, California
Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California. Maricopa is located south-southeast of Taft, at an elevation of . The population was 1,154 at the 2010 census, up from 1,111 at the 2000 census. The Carrizo Plain is located to the northwest, and the enormous Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the third largest oil field in the United States, is adjacent on the north and east. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Maricopa is in the extreme southwestern corner of the San Joaquin Valley, on the first rise of land into the foothills of the Coast Ranges, with the Temblor Range, following the San Andreas Fault, trending northwest of town, and the San Emigdio Mountains to the southeast. The climate of the area is hot and semi-arid, with summertime temperatures routinely exceeding . Freezes occur in the winter, with the mean period without freezes being about 275 days. About six inches of rain falls annually in Maricopa. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Hills, California
Lost Hills (formerly, Lost Hill) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Lost Hills is located west-northwest of Bakersfield, at an elevation of . The population was 2,412 at the 2010 census, up from 1,938 at the 2000 census. About 75% of the population is engaged in agricultural positions. A rest stop by Interstate 5 including restaurants, gasoline stations, and motels is located about from the town. Geography Lost Hills is located at . It stands on the east bank of the California Aqueduct. Interstate 5 is located near, but not adjacent, to Lost Hills. The town is at the intersection of State Route 46 and Lost Hills Road. The enormous Lost Hills Oil Field, which is sixth largest by remaining reserves in California, is west and northwest of town, extending about along the range of the low Lost Hills Range, for which the town was named. According to the United States Census Bureau, Lost Hills has a total area of , of which over 99% is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebec, California
Lebec is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,468. Geography Lebec is located in Castac Valley between the San Emigdio and Tehachapi Mountains. The community is one of the Mountain Communities of the Tejon Pass. Lebec is south of Bakersfield. According to the United States Census Bureau, Lebec has an area of . The community, which is near Tejon Pass, lies at an elevation of . History Lebec is named in honor of Peter Lebeck or Lebecque, a French trapper killed by a grizzly bear in 1837 in the area that later became Fort Tejon. He was memorialized in an epitaph at the site, found carved in a bare spot on an old oak tree. The epitaph read ''PETER LEBECK / KILLED BY A X BEAR / OCTR 17 / 1837.'' The bark of the oak tree eventually grew over the carving. A group from Bakersfield, called the Foxtail Rangers, removed the bark in the late 19th century and found the inscription in re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamont, California
Lamont is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Lamont is located south-southeast of downtown Bakersfield, at an elevation of . The population was 15,120 at the 2010 census, up from 13,296 at the 2000 census. Geography Lamont is located in south-central California about from Bakersfield and about from Los Angeles. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which are land and of it (0.65%) is covered by water. History Lamont was founded in 1923. The first post office opened in 1947. During the 1930s–1950s, large numbers of farm workers migrated to the Lamont area from the east seeking relief from the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The first public library in Lamont was opened in June 1912. It was located in the Weedpatch home of Phoebe Wells. Growth was rapid in the Lamont region, with the influx of workers in the oil industry, and in 1935, the library was moved to a new building. In 1952, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Of The Woods, California
Lake of the Woods is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Kern County, California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 790. The community is in Cuddy Canyon in the San Emigdio Mountains, along the Ventura and Kern County line. It is within the Los Padres National Forest. The name "Lake of the Woods" was bestowed by pioneer Mrs. Florence Cuddy, when the community was established in 1925. The reservoir for which it was named has been dry since 1962, when its dam burst.Adam NagourneyA Dry California Town Struggles to Save Its Water Supply ''The New York Times'', March 7, 2014; seRidge Route Communities Museum And Historical Society(accessed July 21, 2022) for precise year and circumstances. Demographics 2010 The 2010 United States Census reported that Lake of the Woods had a population of 917. The population density was . The racial makeup of Lake of the Woods was 820 (89.4%) White, 3 (0.3%) African American, 18 (2.0%) Native American, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keene, California
Keene (formerly, Wells) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California in the foothills of the Tehachapi Mountains at the southern extreme of the San Joaquin Valley. Keene is located northwest of Tehachapi, at an elevation of . The population was 469 at the 2020 census, up from 431 at the 2010 census. The headquarters of the United Farm Workers (UFW), a national farmworkers organization organized and led by Cesar Chavez, is located in Keene, and is sometimes referred to as "Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz" ("Our Lady Queen of Peace"). Keene is located in the greater Tehachapi area. Geography Keene is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , over 99% of it land. Climate Keene is categorized as being within the 8b USDA hardiness zone, meaning temperatures can get as low as 15 to 20 °F. History The Keene post office opened in 1879, closed in 1881, and re-opened in 1885. Keene was founded in 1876 with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havilah, California
Havilah is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located in the mountains between Walker Basin and the Kern River Valley,Map: Miracle Hot Springs, California, 7.5-minute quadrangle, US Geological Survey, 1989. south-southwest of Bodfish at an elevation of . History Early Asbury Harpending arrived in the area where there were many southern-sympathizers in 1864. After finding gold deposits on Clear Creek, a tributary of the Kern River, the group claimed a townsite on the road from Keyesville to Tehachapi and named it after the Biblical land of Havilah, "where there is gold" according to Genesis 2:11. By the end of 1865, Havilah was a boom town with 147 business buildings, thirteen saloons, and a population of nearly a thousand, mostly miners working the Clear Creek Mining District. Havilah was the county seat at the founding of Kern County on April 2, 1866, and the county's first newspaper, the ''Havilah Courier'', began publication that same year. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grapevine, California
Grapevine is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California, at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The small village is directly adjacent to Interstate 5 and consists mainly of travelers' and roadside services. At an elevation of , the community is located at the foot of a grade known as the Grapevine that lies in Grapevine Canyon through the Tejon Pass. Etymology The village and grade are named for the canyon the trail passed through, after the wild grapes that grow along the original road. Its Spanish name is ''La Cañada de las Uvas'', that is, ''Grapevine Ravine.'' Geography The ZIP Code is 93243, and the community is inside area code 661. A post office operated at Grapevine from 1923 to 1960. The community of Wheeler Ridge lies three miles north of Grapevine on Interstate 5, with Lebec nine miles south. Before the road was straightened and widened during 1933–34 by the three-lane Ridge Route Alternate (US 99), the Grapevine was infamous for its high a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Hills, California
Golden Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 8,656 at the 2010 census, up from 7,434 at the 2000 census. Golden Hills adjoins the city of Tehachapi on the west. Geography Golden Hills is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , of which or 0.14% is water. Demographics 2010 At the 2010 census Golden Hills had a population of 8,656. The population density was . The racial makeup of Golden Hills was 7,235 (83.6%) White, 129 (1.5%) African American, 124 (1.4%) Native American, 120 (1.4%) Asian, 15 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 670 (7.7%) from other races, and 363 (4.2%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,674 persons (19.3%). The whole population lived in households, no one lived in non-institutionalized group quarters and no one was institutionalized. There were 3,216 households, 1,173 (36.5%) had children under th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
