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ID: 7013350
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013350
Record Type:
administrative
Bakersfield (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 35 22 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 35.3667
decimal degrees
Long: 119 01 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -119.0167
decimal degrees
Note:
Located in San Joaquin Valley; was trade center for mines in Sierra Nevada & Owens valleys in 1870s; expanded with arrival of railroad & development of oil fields in 1890s; was damaged by earthquake in 1952; Edwards Air Force Base is nearby.
Names:
Bakersfield
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
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United States
(nation) (
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California
(state) (
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Kern
(county) (
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Bakersfield
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
founded along the Los Angeles & Stockton road by Thomas Baker in 1869
city (
C
)
............
incorporated in 1898
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
industrial center (
C
)
petroleum refining center (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Bakersfield..........
[
BHA
,
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 814
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6040629
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
VP
]
..................
Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
I, 814
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS6040629
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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