City of Tehachapi Looking northwest along State Route 58 in Tehachapi after a light dusting of snow Looking northwest along State Route 58 in Tehachapi after a light dusting of snow Location of Tehachapi, California Location of Tehachapi, California Tehachapi is positioned in California Tehachapi - Tehachapi Region Tehachapi Mountains Small portion of wind farms with Tehachapi in the distance Tehachapi /t h t pi/ is a town/city in Kern County, California, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an altitude of 3,970 feet (1,210 m) between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Tehachapi is 35 miles (56 km) east-southeast of Bakersfield, and west of Mojave.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.0 square miles (26 km2) and a populace of 14,414.
The Tehachapi region is known for the close-by Tehachapi Loop (a prominent railfan site), Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, The Indian Point Ostrich Ranch, the Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park and Tomi-Kahni Resource Center (Native American), and excellent air conditions for gliding.
The California Correctional Institution maximum security prison, also known as Tehachapi State Prison, is in the area; as is adjacency to Edwards Air Force Base (40 miles to the east).
The Kawaiisu citizens (also Nuwu ("people" in Kawaiisu), or Nuooah) are the Native American tribe whose homeland was the Tehachapi Valley, and cyclicly the southern Sierra Nevada and Mojave Desert, for thousands of years.
One possibility for the origin of the name Tehachapi comes from the Kawaiisu language.
Previously known as 'Old Town', Tehachapi was established in the 1860s.
It is now registered as California Historical Landmark #643 for being the earliest settlement in the Tehachapi Valley. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and was the earliest building in downtown Tehachapi until it burned in June 2008.
On July 21, 1952 Tehachapi was devastated by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake on the little-known White Wolf Fault.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Tehachapi had a populace of 14,414.
The ethnic makeup of Tehachapi was 9,426 (65.4%) White, 1,297 (9.0%) African American, 206 (1.4%) Native American, 238 (1.7%) Asian, 21 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 2,725 (18.9%) from other competitions, and 501 (3.5%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 8,487 citizens (58.9% of the population) lived in homeholds, 6 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 5,921 (41.1%) were institutionalized.
There were 3,121 homeholds, out of which 1,199 (38.4%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 1,504 (48.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 418 (13.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 181 (5.8%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 2,599 citizens (18.0%) under the age of 18, 1,542 citizens (10.7%) aged 18 to 24, 5,891 citizens (40.9%) aged 25 to 44, 3,115 citizens (21.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,267 citizens (8.8%) who were 65 years of age or older.
4,913 citizens (34.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3,574 citizens (24.8%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace is spread out with 18.5% under the age of 18, 12.9% from 18 to 24, 42.7% from 25 to 44, 16.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who are 65 years of age or older.
Climate data for Tehachapi, California (Elevation 3,970ft) Tehachapi is known for its four-season climate.
Average temperatures range from 88 F (30.6 C)/58 F (13.9 C) in July to 52 F (10.6 C)/29 F ( 1.1 C) in January.
There are an average of 31.1 days with highs of 91 F (32 C) or higher and an average of 94.8 days with lows of 31 F (0 C) or lower annually.
The highest recorded temperature was 115 F (46 C) on July 27, 1934. The lowest recorded temperature was 4 F ( 20 C) on January 14, 1932, and December 21, 1967. Annual rain averages 11.08 inches (281 mm) and there is calculable rain on average of 42 days annually.
Downtown Tehachapi is approximately 15 miles (24 km) from the White Wolf Fault, 6 miles (10 km) from the Garlock Fault and 30 miles (50 km) from the San Andreas Fault.
Tehachapi is best known for the 7.3 1952 Kern County earthquake on the White Wolf Fault in 1952.
The Bee - Kay Theater is a historic theater converted into a live theater for the Tehachapi Community Theater in 2008.
Tehachapi has a grow and burgeoning cycling improve for both mountain biking and road cycling.
The Tehachapi Gran Fondo, a mass cycling event in September, was titled Best Century by Cycle CA Magazine two years in a row. The event offers a several distance choices, the longest being around 100 miles and 7,000 ft of climbing through wind farms, vegetable farms, orchards and mountain peaks.
Tehachapi Mountain Trails Association is a small-town group of riders and trail builders.
TMTA members are walkers, hikers, road bicyclists, mountain bikers, horseback riders, and outside enthusiasts interested in developing and preserving multi-use non motorized trails throughout the greater Tehachapi area. The group meets monthly and communicates via their Facebook page regularly. Tehachapi boasts two small-town orchestras.
The Tehachapi Community Orchestra Now called the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, was established in 1997 by Joan Samara and Deborah Hand as an outgrowth of the Da Camera Players String Ensemble, and incorporated in 1998 by Gayel Pitchford.
(See also The Tehachapi News October 12, 1997) The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra, established in 2006 by Deborah Hand, plays an eclectic blend of prominent and jazz music, as well as initial compositions.
All are no-charge to the enhance except for the Halloween concert held at the Beekay Theater with the small-town theater group, the Tehachapi Community Theater. As of 2010, a small-town theater group, the Tehachapi Community Theater, performs in the restored downtown Bee - Kay Theater. The town/city has a several small-town news publications, including the Tehachapi News (since 1899) and The Loop.
Two FM airways broadcasts broadcast from Tehachapi, however they originate in neighboring suburbs and feature no small-town Tehachapi programming: KKZQ (100.1 FM; Tehachapi, CA) KSRY (103.1 FM; Tehachapi, CA) As of 2010, an accomplishment is underway by the Tehachapi Media Foundation to initiate a small-town web-based airways broadcast. Tehachapi has been host to productions by both Hollywood productions and autonomous filmmakers, as well as being incessantly mentioned, especially during the noir era. Perhaps the first movie to be filmed in Tehachapi was The Lady of the Dugout (1918), which starred former outlaws Al and Frank Jennings playing themselves.
Referencing the small-town women's prison was a common manner in which Tehachapi received mentioned in noir film, including Double Indemnity in which Fred Mac - Murray's character tells of one woman who killed her husband: "All she collected was a three-to-ten stretch in Tehachapi." In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade (played by Humphrey Bogart) tells a female criminal and love interest, "Well, if you get a good break, you'll be out of Tehachapi in twenty years and you can come back to me then." In the book, the reference was not to Tehachapi but to San Quentin. Nocturne (1946) featured a homemaid mysteriously referred to as the "Tehachapi Debutante," and 1948's The Hunted has a heroine fresh out of Tehachapi after four years for jewelry theft. In The Story of Molly X (1949), Molly X is the prestige of a San Francisco gang sent to Tehachapi for her part in a burglary attempt freshwater San Quentin for execution.
In Star Trek Generations (1994), actors Patrick Stewart and William Shatner appear in a scene filmed in the Tehachapi mountain peaks. The Christina Applegate vehicle originally titled Tehachapi sends her character to Tehachapi because her lover is in prison here.
The fourth season of the teen-geared tv series, Endurance produced by the Discovery Kids Network was filmed in Tehachapi and aired from 2005 2006.
In Mac and Me (1988), after the characters state they have to "drive to Woolworth's in Palmdale" the next shot shows them driving up a dirt road through a Tehachapi wind farm.
Other movies filmed in Tehachapi include Face to Face (2001), Fault (2002), Batman: Revenge, (2003), The Gentleman Don La Mancha (2004), I.F.O.
Tehachapi, CA.
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Tehachapi Pops Orchestra, TPops website, accessed 2012-07-09 Tehachapi Community Theater, TCT website: Center Stage, accessed 2010-12-01 Radio for Tehachapi, Tehacahapi Media Foundation, accessed 2010-12-01 Tehachapi News.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tehachapi Mountains region.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Tehachapi.
Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce Tehachapi News Tehachapi Bridal Association Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park website Kawaiisu Native American Village, near Tehachapi
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