* 1910 – Lakeview Gusher, the largest U. S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.

Many of those who stayed ended up in Bakersfield and Oildale, as the southern San Joaquin Valley became an important area of oil production after major Southern California oil fields such as Signal Hill began to dry up.

Haslam was born in Bakersfield, the son of an oil worker.

County government was created in 1866 with the county seat in the mining town of Havilah, in the mountains between Bakersfield and Tehachapi.

It is an unincorporated suburban town just north of Bakersfield across the Kern River, west of the Kern River Oilfield, and east of Highway 99.

Formerly a country town west of Bakersfield, it is now surrounded by suburban sprawl and now has the highest household income in Kern County, according to Census estimates.

Bakersfield is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States.

Centennial new town part in Tejon Ranch halfway between Los Angeles and Bakersfield, will incorporate such restrictions in order to minimize the commuter load on severely congested I-5.

The town of Bakersfield saw the rise of the Bakersfield sound as a reaction against Nashville, led by people like Buck Owens and future star Merle Haggard.

Their influence remains strong: Bakersfield resembles a West Texas town such as Odessa or Lubbock far more than it resembles anywhere else in California.

There is a substantial Filipino community in Bakersfield and throughout Kern County, California, especially in or around the town of Delano where the annual Philippine Weekend fair takes place every July.

Its northern terminus is at U. S. Route 160 in Caulfield ; its southern terminus is at the Arkansas state line ( where it continues as Highway 101 ) south of Bakersfield, the only other town on the route.

They chose an Tulare County site for a new town near the present location of Earlimart, California, and about north of Bakersfield.

In this region near Bakersfield the Kern River once spread out into vast wetlands and seasonal lakes.

Franklin D. Lee proved a man of prompt action when Mrs. Claire Shaefer, accompanied by a friend, visited him in Bakersfield, California, several months ago as a prospective patient.

Their 1969 album The Gilded Palace of Sin was a modernized version of the Bakersfield style of country music made popular by Buck Owens, and the band appeared on the album cover wearing Nudie suits emblazoned with all sorts of hippie accoutrements.

It was in Bakersfield that Warren's father was murdered during a robbery by an unknown killer.

According to the publication California's Geographic Names, Mettler was founded in 1941, but an obituary of Clifford Alvin Mettler in the Bakersfield Californian reported that the settlement was founded by him, his father,

Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster and the unique mix with the traditional country steel guitar sound, new vocal harmony styles in which the words are minimal, and a rough edge not heard on the more polished Nashville Sound recordings of the same era.

By the early part of the 1960s, however, the Nashville sound had become perceived as too watered-down by many more traditionalist performers and fans, resulting in a number of local scenes like the Lubbock sound and the Bakersfield sound.

In the early 1960s, the Nashville sound began to be challenged by the rival Bakersfield sound.

This is evidenced by the early awards shows being dominated by Bakersfield artists Buck and Bonnie Owens, and Merle Haggard.

In 1959, Garlits traveled to Bakersfield, California for the March Meet, then called the U. S. Fuel & Gas Championship, to show that the times he was setting were as legitimate as those set by the west coast racers.

The City of Bakersfield and the County of Kern attempted to prevent a reduction in service by filing a joint lawsuit ; however, the court sided with the federal government.

Both the Tejon Industrial Complex ( south of Bakersfield ) and the International Trade and Transportation Center ( in Shafter, west of Bakersfield ) would lease warehouse space at the airport for use by their clients.

Performers reacting against the Nashville sound formed their own scenes in Lubbock, Texas and Bakersfield, California, the latter of which ( Bakersfield sound ) became the most popular type of country by the late 1960s, led by Merle Haggard.

The Three-Point Shootout was won by Blake Ahearn of the Dakota Wizards, and the Slam Dunk Contest was won by James White of the Bakersfield Jam.

One year later, in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Bakersfield Jam's Chukwudiebere Maduabum was drafted by the then-affiliated Los Angeles Lakers and later traded to the Denver Nuggets.

They are followed by Asheville Tulsa ( 14 ); Fayetteville ( 11 ); Colorado ( 9 ); Huntsville / Albuquerque, Charleston / Florida, Roanoke and Sioux Falls ( 8 ); Iowa ( 6 ); Fort Worth and Idaho ( 5 ); Dakota, Fort Wayne and Mobile ( 4 ); Bakersfield and Los Angeles ( 3 ); Rio Grande Valley and Anaheim / Springfield ( 2 ) and Arkansas, Erie, Greenville and Utah ( 1 ).

His parents divorced when he was three years old, his mother leaving Rick for Judas, and was raised by his father and stepmother Lily in Bakersfield.

Although most of the valley is rural, it does contain MSAs ( urban cities and suburbs ) such as Delano, Fresno, Bakersfield, Stockton, Modesto, Visalia, Porterville, Merced, Madera, and Hanford.

In 2008, the American Lung Association ranked the Pittsburgh area as the nation's third-most polluted metropolitan area, behind Los Angeles and Bakersfield, CA.

California State Route 65, known as The All American City Highway or Porterville Freeway, is a major north-south freeway that heads north to Lindsay and south to Bakersfield.

The San Joaquin Valley has been a major influence in American country music, particularly through the " Bakersfield sound ".

Michael Dean Lockwood ( born May 22, 1961 in Hawthorne California ) is an American guitarist and producer, a native of Bakersfield, probably most well known for producing and performing with Lisa Marie Presley and Aimee Mann.

Marc Fraser Davis ( March 30, 1913, Bakersfield, California – January 12, 2000 ) was a prominent American artist and animator for Walt Disney Studios.

Mosrite is an American guitar manufacturing company, based in Bakersfield, California, from the late 1950s to the early 1990s.

Frank Bidart ( born May 27, 1939 in Bakersfield, California ) is an American academic and poet.

Walter F. Parkes ( born April 15, 1951 in Bakersfield, California ) is an American film producer, writer and former studio head.

Robert Swift ( born December 3, 1985, in Bakersfield, California ) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing for Tokyo Apache.

Bakersfield Brigade was an American soccer team based in Bakersfield, California, United States.

Richard Dennis Ralston ( born July 27, 1942 in Bakersfield, California ) is an American former professional tennis player.