Bakersfield (California)

Bakersfield is a city of the south of the California, in the Comté of Kern, with the the United States. It is the chief town of the Comté of Kern. Its population was of 247.057 inhabitants in 2000 according to the census, but it was estimated at 311.824 in 2006 according to the town hall. It is one of the most dynamic big cities of the the United States in term of evolution of the population. The saving in Bakersfield is dominated by agriculture, oil and the refining.

History

The Amerindian S were the first occupants of the Vallée of San Joaquin, a few 8000 years ago. In 1776 the Spanish missionary Père Francisco Garcés was the first European to reach this area. In 1851 of gold was discovered in Kern River, and in 1865 first discovered oil was made in the valley. The colonies increased and the zone was soon known under the name of " Colonel Baker' S field" , according to the name of one of the local colonists. When this one was seen entrusting the task to constitute a village, the official name of this one was " Bakersfield".

The hamlet continued to thrive and reached the population of about 300 inhabitants in 1869, of 800 in 1871. The adversity, incarnated by the floods of 1867 and 1893, and by the fires of 1889 and 1919, did not reverse this tendency. The May 27th 1898 the railway line of San Joaquin Valley arrived at Bakersfield, which gave a great impulse to the population of the city. Then, in the Years 1930, the Dust Bowl brought flows of workers since the Grandes Plains, the Arkansas and the Oklahoma. Those contributed to the development of the agriculture and the industry of the Pétrole. The following years, the agricultural work was mainly carried out by Mexican immigrants . In the Years 1960, César Chávez carried out a fight with an aim of improving the work conditions for those.

The great earthquake of the July 21st 1952 changed the appearance of the city itself which covered buildings.

In 1965, a campus of the system of the Université of State of California opened with Bakersfield. 7.700 students currently attend it, especially in the fields of the businesses and the administration.

Geography

Bakersfield is located at 35°21 ′ 26 ″ NR, 119°1 ′ 54 ″ O, at an altitude of 120 m to the top of the sea level; to roughly 160 km in the north of Los Angeles, and to 500 km in the south-east of Sacramento, the capital of the state. It is in the south of the Vallée of San Joaquin and in the north of the Tehachapi Mountains.

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Site of the town hall

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