Kern Real Estate
Kern California Information
Kern County is a county located in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Kern County is a county located in the southern Central Valley of the U.S. state of California. Established in 1866, it extends east beyond the southern slope of the Eastern Sierra Nevada range into the Mojave Desert, and includes parts of the Western Indian Wells Valley, and Northern Antelope Valley, north of Los Angeles County, an area larger than the state of Massachusetts.
Kern County was created in 1866 and was dominated by mining in the mountains and desert. The area of the San Joaquin Valley was considered inhospitable and impassable at the time due to the various swamps, lakes, sharp tule reeds, and diseases such as malaria. This would change when settlers started draining lands for farming and constructing canals, most dug by hand by hired Chinese laborers, to both irrigate and drain these lands. Within ten years the area of the San Joaquin Valley surpassed the mining areas as the economic influencers of the county and the county seat was moved from Havilah to Bakersfield in 1874.
Cities in Kern County are :
- Arvin
- Bakersfield
- California City
- Delano
- Maricopa
- McFarland
- Ridgecrest
- Shafter
- Taft
- Tehachapi
- Wasco
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