Di Giorgio is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located south of

Edison Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These invention ...

, at an elevation of . The first post office at Di Giorgio opened in 1944. The name honors Joseph Di Giorgio, agricultural entrepreneur and founder of

DiGiorgio Corporation DiGiorgio corporation was a fruit-growing corporation and eventual conglomerate in the 20th century. Once a vast company, owning much of California's central valley farm land, and multibillion-dollar corporation, a massive restructuring in the 199 ...

. Di Giorgio overlies the large

Mountain View Oil Field The Mountain View Oil Field is a large, mature, but still-productive oil field in Kern County, California, in the United States, in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin Valley southeast of Bakersfield. It underlies the town of Arvin, as ...

, and gives its name to one of the field's many productive areas.

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Unincorporated communities in Kern County, California Unincorporated communities in California {{KernCountyCA-geo-stub

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