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unusual facts about Kern County


Semie Moseley

Two years after his bankruptcy, Semie was able to get back the Mosrite name, and in 1970 he started making guitars again in Pumpkin Center near Bakersfield.


Alamo Solo Spring

Alamo Solo Spring, (Lone Cottonwood Spring) a spring directly east of the Dagany Gap in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.

Atriplex tularensis

Atriplex tularensis is endemic to Kern County, California, where it is known only from a few individuals at Kern Lake, a usually dry ephemeral lake bed just north of the Interstate 5 and Highway 99 split.

Eremalche parryi

kernensis, the Kern mallow, is a rare plant known only from western Kern County, California around the tiny community of McKittrick.

KMPH-TV

The television station's airwaves extend northward to Mariposa, California and the southern Sierra Nevada, and sometimes can be received to the south in Kern County for those who live about north of Bakersfield.

Kurnakovite

In addition to the type locality in Kazakhstan, kurakovite has also been reported from the Zhacang-Caka brine lake, Tibet; the Kirka borate deposit, Kiitahya Province, Turkey; the Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California; Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California; and the Tincalayu borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina.

Las Tinajas de Los Indios

Las Tinajas de Los Indios, or "Indian Tanks", are tinajas located in the sandstone heights of the Point of Rocks on the north side of Antelope Valley in Kern County, California.

Maturango Museum

Formerly known as Crumville, it is located in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, California adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.

Oil!

Additionally the oil museums in Kern County, California and the libraries and museums in the area around Silver City, New Mexico, and especially the period photography, played a large part in shaping his screenplay and the film.

Salt Spring

Salt Spring, originally, Aguaje de la Brea (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.


see also

China Lake, California

China Lake Acres, California, census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States

Chumash

Chumash Wilderness, wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California

Frazier Park

Frazier Park, California, an unincorporated village in Kern County, California

Hans Einstein

After completing his residency, Einstein became the assistant medical director of the Kern County tuberculosis sanitarium in Keene.

Kern City

Boron, California or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California

Kern Lake

Kern Lake, California an unincorporated community in Kern County, California.

Rabobank Arena

A separate display on the western concourse honors the founders of Bakersfield and Kern County, as well as country music legend Buck Owens and current athletes and dignitaries from Bakersfield and Kern County.