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Flag of Bakersfield, California Flag Official seal of Bakersfield, California Location of Bakersfield, California Location of Bakersfield, California Bakersfield, California is positioned in California Bakersfield, California - Bakersfield, California Body Bakersfield City Council Bakersfield is a town/city in California, United States, and the governmental center of county of Kern County.
Bakersfield's populace is approximately 365,000, making it the ninth-most crowded city in California and the 52nd-most crowded city in the nation.
The Bakersfield Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2010 census populace of 839,631, making it the 62nd biggest urbane region in the United States. The more built-up urban region that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield and Rosedale, has a populace of approximately 464,000.
Kern County is the most productive petroleum producing county, and the fourth most productive agricultural county (by value) in the United States. Industries include natural gas and other energy extraction, aerospace, mining, oil refining, manufacturing, distribution, food processing, and corporate/regional headquarters. The town/city is also the place of birth of the nation music genre known as the Bakersfield sound.
9.2.1 California State University, Bakersfield 9.2.2 Bakersfield College See also: Timeline of Bakersfield, California In 1851, gold was identified along the Kern River in the southern Sierra Nevada, and in 1865, petroleum was identified in the valley. The Bakersfield area, once a tule-reed-covered marshland, was first known as Kern Island to the handful of pioneers who assembled log cabins there in 1860.
In 1862, disastrous floods swept away the initial settlement established in 1860 by the German-born Christian Bohna. Among those thriving to the region by the California gold rush was Thomas Baker, a lawyer and former colonel in the militia of Ohio, his home state. Baker moved to the banks of the Kern River in 1863, at what became known as Baker's Field, which became a stopover for travelers. By 1870, with a populace of 600, what is now known as Bakersfield was becoming the principal town in Kern County. In 1873, Bakersfield was officially incorporated as a city, and by 1874 it officially replaced the dying town of Havilah as the county seat. Alexander Mills was hired as the town/city marshal, a man one historian would describe as "...
The earthquake's destructive force also bent cotton fields into U shapes, slid a shoulder of the Tehachapi Mountains athwart all four lanes of the Ridge Route, collapsed a water fortress creating a flash flood, and finished the barns tunnels in the mountain chain. Bakersfield was spared, experiencing minor architectural damage without loss of life.
Aftershocks, for the next month, had turn into normal to Bakersfield residents, until August 22 at 3:42 pm a 5.8 earthquake hit directly under the town's center in the most densely populated region of the southern San Joaquin Valley.
Between 1970 and 2010, Bakersfield interval 400% (from 70,000 to 347,483), making it one of the quickest burgeoning cities in California. Bakersfield's close adjacency to mountain passes, primarily the Tejon Pass on Interstate 5 between the Los Angeles metropolis and the central San Joaquin Valley, has made the town/city a county-wide transit hub. In 1990, Bakersfield was one of ten U.S.
In 2010, the Bakersfield MSA had a gross urbane product of $29.466 billion, making it the 73rd biggest urbane economy in the United States. Bakersfield lies near the southern "horseshoe" end of the San Joaquin Valley, with the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada just to the east.
The Temblor Range is about 35 mi (56 km) from Bakersfield athwart the valley floor. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 143.6 sq mi (372 km2), of which 142.2 sq mi (368 km2) is territory (98.99%) and 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km2) is veiled by water (1.01%).
Bakersfield lies around 100 miles (160 km) north of Los Angeles (about a 1 -hour drive on I-5 and State Route 99) and about 300 mi (480 km) southeast of the state capital, Sacramento (about a 4 -hour drive on State Route 99).
See also: List of neighborhoods in Bakersfield Bakersfield has historically referred to its regions by directional names.
They include: North Bakersfield, Northeast, Southeast, South Bakersfield, Southwest, and Northwest.
East Bakersfield generally refers to the former town of Sumner (later retitled East Bakersfield).
Dense tule fog in Bakersfield, California.
In fact, Bakersfield appreciates more clear days than the majority of the U.S.
Snow is rare on the valley floor; but it does snow in Bakersfield about once every 20 to 30 years. The last time it snowed was on January 25, 1999, when the town/city received 6 in (15 cm). The record maximum temperature was 118 F (48 C) on July 28, 1908, and the record minimum temperature was 11 F ( 12 C) on January 3, 1908. The most rainfall in one month was 5.82 inches (148 mm) in December 2010, and the maximum 24-hour rainfall was 2.29 in (58 mm) on February 9, 1978. Climate data for Bakersfield, California (1981 2010 normals) In 2015, The American Lung Association ranked Bakersfield as the second-most polluted town/city in the United States in terms of both short-term and year-round particle pollution. It also ranked Bakersfield third as the most ozone-polluted town/city in the United States.
In Peter Greenberg's book Don't Go There!, Bakersfield is mentioned for its high ozone levels, and postulates that its rapid increase in size is causing the increasing rate of pollution from new construction. As of 2013, when calculated by atmospheric particulate matter specifically PM10, particles of 10 m or less Bakersfield is listed as having the worst air in the United States. Map of ethnic distribution in Bakersfield, 2010 U.S.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Bakersfield had a populace of 347,483.
The ethnic makeup of Bakersfield was 197,389 (56.8%) White, 28,238 (8.1%) African American, 5,102 (1.5%) Native American, 21,432 (6.2%) Asian (2.1% Indian, 2.0% Filipino, 0.5% Chinese, 0.4% Korean, 0.2% Japanese, 478 (0.1%) Pacific Islander), 77,686 (22.4%) from other competitions, and 17,068 (4.9%) from two or more competitions.
Bakersfield has persistently ranked as one of the least educated urbane areas in the United States. A study by the Brookings Institution using 2008 data found that the proportion of Bakersfield metro grownups age 25 and over with a bachelor's degree was the lowest (14.7%) of the 100 biggest urbane areas in the United States; that 100th-place finish was down from being ranked 95th in 1990. According to a Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, Bakersfield rates as one of the ten most obese metro areas in America.
Bakersfield has seen its populace expanded from about 105,000 in 1980 to 347,000 in 2010.
However, in October 2013, Bakersfield was found to be the number two town/city for real estate investment. The town/city of Shafter, a small farming town north of Bakersfield, has filed a suit to limit the northern expansion of Bakersfield's town/city limits.
The large bluff and plateau which lie east of Bakersfield toward the Rio Bravo and Kern Canyon region have been under evolution for the last 60 years.
It is estimated by small-town officials that Bakersfield and its outlying suburbs will reach a populace of over one million citizens by 2020. Bakersfield's historic and major industries have related to Kern County's two chief industries, petroleum and agriculture.
Kern County is the most petroleum productive county in America, with around 10% of the nation's domestic production. Kern County is a part of the highly productive San Joaquin Valley, and rates in the top five most productive agricultural counties in the nation. Major crops for Kern County include: grapes, citrus, almonds, carrots, alfalfa, cotton, and roses. The town/city serves as the home for both corporate and county-wide command posts of companies engaged in these industries.
Several companies have moved to Bakersfield because of its inexpensive territory and access to the rest of America, as well as global ports in both Los Angeles and Oakland. Other companies have opened county-wide offices and non-oil/agricultural businesses because of Bakersfield's and Kern County's company friendly policies, such as having no small-town utility or inventory taxes. Products produced in the town/city include: ice cream (world's biggest ice cream plant), central vacuums, highway paint, and stock racing cars. Bakersfield is the biggest city with the lowest revenue tax in California at the state minimum of 7.25%. According to the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce,[when?] the top employers in the county based in Bakersfield are: 6 City of Bakersfield 1,300 18 California State University, Bakersfield 600 Main article: Arts and culture of Bakersfield Many of Bakersfield's earliest and most historic restaurants are Basque, including Woolgrowers, Noriega's, Pyrenees, Benji's, and Narducci's.
The Kern County Museum, positioned on Chester Avenue just north of downtown Bakersfield holds a compilation of county-wide artifacts.
Bakersfield is also home to the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, which has a compilation of Miocene era marine fossils collected from the region as well as other displays.
The town/city gained fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Bakersfield Sound, an electric guitar-driven subgenre of nation music that commercially dominated the trade for more than a decade.
Bakersfield hosts horse shows all year round, including local, 4 - H, and breed shows.
Every spring, Bakersfield hosts one of California's Scottish Games and Clan Gatherings. In the late summer, St.
Every year amid the summer, Bakersfield hosts the Lowrider National at the Kern County Fairgrounds.
Memorial Day weekend features the Kern County Basque Festival, sponsored by the Kern County Basque Club. This three-day festival features food, music, dance, and handball games.
Twice a year, the CSUB Indigenous Native American Club hosts a Native Gathering on the California State University Bakersfield ground at Runner Park. In mid to late September, Bakersfield holds the annual Kern County Fair, which showcases the area's agricultural produce and animal husbandry, along with a rodeo, concerts, and a traditional carnival.
Previously every year and now every five years, Bakersfield hosts a political conference known as the Bakersfield Business Conference.
Bakersfield has five movie multi-screen theaters: Edwards Bakersfield Stadium 14, Reading Cinemas Valley Plaza 16, Maya Cinemas Bakersfield 16, and Regency Theatres East Hills 10.
The historic downtown Fox Theater (Bakersfield, California) has been renovated, and is now a venue for concerts, musicians, comedians, and movies.
Bakersfield is known for the Bakersfield sound, "a twangy style of Fender Telecaster and pedal steel guitar music made prominent by hometown nation crooners Buck Owens and Merle Haggard." Not only does the sound of the song pay tribute to the Bakersfield sound, but the name of the town/city is referenced in the lyrics.
There are a several websites that cover Bakersfield and what happens in and around the city.
The most notable of these are The Bakersfield Californian and Bakersfield Magazine websites.
Main article: Sports in Bakersfield The town/city is home to two minor league experienced sports teams: the Bakersfield Condors (American Hockey League) and the Bakersfield Train Robbers baseball club (Pecos League).
It was previously home to the California League's Bakersfield Blaze baseball team which ceased operations after the 2016 season.
A third minor league team, The Bakersfield Jam of the D-League (Basketball), was relocated to Prescott Valley, Arizona in 2016.
In addition, Bakersfield has two universities with strong athletics programs.
Bakersfield College Renegades is a improve college with 19 varsity sports, the most notable being football. It competes in the Western State Conference, which is a part of the California Community College Athletic Association.
California State University, Bakersfield Roadrunners is a college with 15 varsity sports, the most notable being basketball. It competes in NCAA Division I as a member of the Western Athletic Conference Bakersfield is also positioned near a range of motor racing venues.
Current racing sports include: drag strip (at Famoso Raceway), dirt (at Bakersfield Speedway), road course (at Buttonwillow Raceway), and a paved 1/2 mile oval (at Kern County Raceway Park), which replaced Mesa Marin Raceway, a NASCAR associated oval track, that was completed 2004.
Bakersfield is also the home town of four time Indianapolis 500 winner Rick Mears, as well as the 2007 Daytona 500 winner, and 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Kevin Harvick.
The Kern County Soccer Field has 24 full-size light soccer fields. Also, presently under assembly is the Bakersfield Sports Village.
Bakersfield is home to a large populace of off-highway vehicle (OHV) enthusiasts.
As of May 2001,[needs update] over 18,000 OHVs were registered in Kern County. On May 26, 2005, the City of Bakersfield and the State of California Parks department obtained an assignable option, using a grant from the OHV Trust funds, to purchase a prospective 11,000 acres (45 km2) site for an OHV park. Ruth Coleman, Director of California State Parks, remarked, "This universal responds to the needs of the Bakersfield improve for increased recreation opportunities and will furnish a cornerstone for the Central Valley Strategy." Federally, Bakersfield is positioned in California's 23rd congressional district, which is represented by Republican Kevin Mc - Carthy.
Bakersfield uses the Council-Manager form of government, in which the City Council is the major governing authority. The City Council consists of seven members, propel from seven wards (or districts).
The Mayor is propel at large, and is the presiding member of the City Council, although he does not cast a vote except in a several instances. The City Council appoints and confirms (which the mayor does cast a vote) both the City Attorney and the City Manager. The City Manager, in turn, appoints (does not require confirmation from the City Council) the Finance Director, City Clerk, and Deputy City Clerk. In addition to these positions, Bakersfield also has a several departments, used to furnish the services necessary to the city.
They are: Department of Development Services, Department of Economic and Community Development, Fire Department, Police Department, Department of Public Works, Department of Recreation and Parks, and Department of Water Resources.
As of 2011, it contained 11 articles and 4 addendums. The current version was adopted on January 23, 1915. Little knowledge is known about the City Charter adopted in 1873, or in 1898, when the town/city was incorporated.
An August 2005 article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer listed Bakersfield as the eighth-most-conservative town/city in the United States and the most conservative town/city in California. In the 2008 Presidential election, Republican John Mc - Cain received 55.6% of the city's votes to Democrat Barack Obama's 42.9%. The same year, Bakersfield cast 75.2% of its votes in favor of Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Law enforcement inside the town/city limits is provided by the Bakersfield Police Department.
Fire protection inside the town/city is provided by the Bakersfield Fire Department.
The Kern County Fire Department protects the county as a whole.
Main article: Bakersfield Police Department The Bakersfield Police Department (BPD) is the agency responsible for law enforcement.
The department protects the city, split between two areas: West region and East area, with police command posts in the east and the west substation serving west Bakersfield.
In 2015 the Mapping Police Violence study figured that Bakersfield police killed civilians at the highest rate in the U.S., logging 13.6 killings per million citizens , compared to the U.S.
As such, police in Kern County, California, have killed more citizens per capita than in any other American county in 2015. Main article: Bakersfield Fire Department The Bakersfield Fire Department's communications division, known as ECC (Emergency Communications Center), is positioned in the Whiting Communications Center in Northeast Bakersfield.
ECC is a joint dispatch center for the Kern County, Bakersfield City and California City Fire Departments.
The Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) is the agency that provides fire protection and emergency medical services for the county of Kern, California, USA.
KCFD provides fire protection services for over 500,000 people living in the unincorporated areas of Kern County and the metros/cities of Arvin, Delano, Maricopa, Mc - Farland, Ridgecrest, Shafter, Taft, Tehachapi and Wasco.
This agency is contracted to furnish dispatch services for the California City Fire Department, Kern Ambulance based in Wasco, and Care Ambulance based in Lake Isabella.
For more details on this topic, see Bakersfield Police Department.
The number of violent crimes recorded by the Bakersfield Police Department in its 2008 Crime Reports was 5,961. 27 of those were murders and homicides. Data collected by Bakersfield Police Department, an anti-gang program under the town/city of Bakersfield, shows that the town/city of Bakersfield has experienced an increase in gang membership and gang activeness since the early 2000s.
The Bakersfield Police Department has a holding area, but inmates are transported to the Kern County Central Receiving Facility in Bakersfield.
Sentenced criminals are held at the Lerdo Detention Facility, just outside the city's limits. The Kern County Sheriff's Office, Detentions Bureau has an average daily inmate populace of approximately 2,500 inmates. The major facility for receiving inmates arrested in the Bakersfield region is the Central Receiving Facility. In addition, there is the Lerdo Complex, which consists of three facilities: Bakersfield City School District (BCSD) is the state's biggest elementary school district.
The first high school in Bakersfield, Kern County Union High School, opened in 1893.
It was retitled Bakersfield High School after World War II.
Bakersfield College The site at California Avenue and F Street is the locale of the first ground of Bakersfield College, which was established in 1913 and relocated in 1956 to its current locale overlooking the Panorama Bluffs in northeast Bakersfield.
Bakersfield College has an enrollment of 16,000 students.
To serve a burgeoning baby-boomer populace after World War II, the Kern High School District has steadily period to nineteen campuses and more than 35,000 students, making it the biggest high school precinct in the state.
In 1965, a college in the California State University fitness was established in Bakersfield.
California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB) has approximately 7,800 students.
The Baker Street Branch Library, part of the Kern County Library system, is among the Bakersfield structures listed on the NRHP.
Bakersfield is part of the Kern High School District (KHSD), California's biggest high school district, comprising 28 schools and educating about 35,000 students.
There are 15 high schools inside the KHSD in Bakersfield: Bakersfield High School East Bakersfield High School Private high schools include Garces Memorial High School, Bakersfield Christian High School, and Bakersfield Adventist Academy.
Main article: California State University, Bakersfield California State University, Bakersfield ("CSUB", "CSU Bakersfield", or "Cal State Bakersfield") is a enhance college founded in Bakersfield in 1965.
As of Fall 2002,[needs update] some 7,700 undergraduate and graduate students attended CSUB, at either the chief campus in Bakersfield or the satellite campus, Antelope Valley Center in Lancaster, California.
Main article: Bakersfield College Bakersfield College ("BC") is a enhance community college positioned in Bakersfield, California.
Its chief campus is on a 153-acre (0.62 km2) plot in northeast Bakersfield, with two satellite campuses: the Weill Institute in downtown Bakersfield, and at the Delano Center in Delano, California, approximately 35 miles (56 km) north of Bakersfield.
National University and University of Phoenix maintains a ground in Bakersfield, while the University of La - Verne, Fresno Pacific University, and Point Loma Nazarene University all have branch campuses positioned in Bakersfield.
San Joaquin Valley College and Santa Barbara Business College also have campuses in Bakersfield.
Bakersfield is also home to Spanish-language broadcaster Univision's only English-language station, KUVI-DT.
California State Route 178 at M Street in Downtown Bakersfield.
State Route 99 bisects Bakersfield from north to south, while State Route 58 exists as a freeway east of SR 99, servicing the southeast part of the town/city and extending over the Tehachapi mountain peaks to Tehachapi, Mojave, and Barstow.
SR 58 extension is known as the Centennial Corridor, and will extend the freeway west to I-5. Included in the Centennial Corridor is the Westside Parkway (sometime referred to by its formal name Kern River Freeway). This is a new freeway which will run through Bakersfield, on a route alongside to the Kern River and Stockdale Highway.
It will run alongside to Heath Road to the north and alongside to South Allen Road to the south. A future extension would connect the West Beltway to SR 99 and I-5, providing a bypass to Bakersfield.
Bakersfield also envisioned Cal - Trans building a North Beltway as the extension of SR 58, but has been withdrawn in favor of the Centennial Corridor.
Bakersfield is one of the biggest cities in the U.S.
Garces Memorial Traffic Circle, informally known as Garces Circle or just The Circle, is the only traffic circle in Bakersfield, California.
The traffic circle is positioned at the intersection of Chester Avenue, Golden State Avenue (State Route 204) and 30th St in Bakersfield.
Bakersfield is served by Golden Empire Transit. Eighteen routes are directed , the majority of which serve the urbanized portion of the county which includes the town/city of Bakersfield.
Bakersfield is also served by Kern Transit, which joins Bakersfield with other communities in Kern County.
Intercity bus providers in Bakersfield include Greyhound, Orange Belt Stages, Intercalifornias, TUFESA, and Fronteras del Norte. North of the city, each barns uses its own rail lines; south of the city, they share a line owned by Union Pacific. The route travels over Tehachapi Pass (and through the Tehachapi Loop). There are a several spur lines in and around Bakersfield.
The Bakersfield Amtrak Station is positioned downtown, at the intersection of S Street and Truxtun Avenue.
There are five Amtrak Thruway Motorcoach routes, which connect passengers to destinations west, south, and east. Kern Transit also uses the station as one of its hubs, connecting passengers to regions throughout Kern County. A station for Bakersfield is prepared as part of the California High Speed Rail system, now under construction. Main article: List of citizens from Bakersfield, California Bakersfield has five sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: "California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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