Missouri Triangle 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 ...

Kern County 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 compris ...

California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...

. It is located north of McKittrick, at an elevation of . Defined by the triple junction of

California State Route 33 State Route 33 (SR 33) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of California. It runs north from U.S. Route 101 in Ventura through the Transverse Ranges and the western side of the San Joaquin Valley to Interstate 5 at a ...

, Lost Hills Road, and 7th Standard Road, it is entirely within the

South Belridge Oil Field The South Belridge Oil Field is a large oil field in northwestern Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, about forty miles west of Bakersfield. Discovered in 1911, and having a cumulative production of over of oil equivalent at the end o ...

. Within the triangle formed by the inexact junction of the three major roads, there was previously a mini-mart and a water tower, with the place name painted on the water tower.

Aera Energy LLC Aera Energy LLC (or simply Aera) is a natural gas, oil exploration and production company started as a joint venture between Shell plc (through Shell USA) and Mobil (which later merged to form ExxonMobil). Headquartered in Bakersfield, Californ ...

operates most of the oil wells in the immediate vicinity.DOGGR online mapping service
. Zoom in on Latitude 35.439711 / Longitude -119.690198 to see the active well visible in the photograph.

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