Aerial Acres is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

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. It is located east-southeast of Castle Butte, near the Clay Mine Road exit off State Highway 58 in Edwards,Curtis Darling, ''Kern County Place Names,'' second edition (2003), p. 1: "a desert town at Clay Mine Road and Sequoia". at an elevation of . The US Post Office recognizes the community name in Zip Code 93523, which is shared with Edwards and North Edwards.UnitedStatesZipCodes.org
Retrieved December 12, 2023. Aerial Acres was described in the 1990s as "a small group of homes and trailers".Mitchell, James. R. (1996)
Gem Trails of Southern California
Gem Guides Book Company, p. 90. According to a 1997 profile of the community in ''

The Bakersfield Californian ''The Bakersfield Californian'' is a daily newspaper serving Bakersfield, California and surrounding Kern County in the state's San Joaquin Valley. History ''The Bakersfield Californian'' is the direct descendant of Kern County's first newspap ...

'', there were about 300 residents, half being retirees, the other half working at either U.S. Borax or

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, California, Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County, California, San Bernardino County and a souther ...

. The article described the community as being founded by happenstance in the 1950s after it was discovered that a well dug for a sheep ranch was actually 100 feet west of the ranch property line. Since there was a water source, a developer bought a half-square mile lot and subdivided it, and it was named "Aerial Acres" because it sits 300 feet above North Edwards.Kehe, Andy (October 5, 1997)
"God's little acres"
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'', pp. F10, F16. Phone service was established in 1966."Aerial Acres Hails Phone Installation"
''The Bakersfield Californian'', July 6, 1966. p. 17.

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