Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA
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Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. It covers about 142 square miles (370 km2) near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley region. Bakersfield's population is approximately 365,000, making it the ninth-most populous city in California and the 52nd-most populous city in the nation. The Bakersfield–Delano Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Kern County, had a 2010 census population of 839,631, making it the 62nd largest metropolitan area in the United States. The more built-up urban area that includes Bakersfield and areas immediately around the city, such as East Bakersfield, Oildale and Rosedale, has a population of approximately 464,000.
The city is a significant hub for both agriculture and oil production. Kern County is the most productive oil producing county, and the fourth most productive agricultural county (by value) in the United States. Industries include natural gas and other energy extraction, aerospace, mining, petroleum refining, manufacturing, distribution, food processing, and corporate regional offices. The city is also the birthplace of the country music genre known as the Bakersfield sound.
History:
Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of Native American settlements dating back thousands of years. The Yokuts lived in lodges along the branches of the Kern River Delta and hunted antelope, tule elk, deer, bear, fish, and game birds. In 1776, Spanish missionary Father Francisco Garces became the first European to explore the area. Owing to the remoteness and inaccessibility of the region, however, the Yokuts remained largely isolated until after the Mexican War of Independence, when Mexican settlers began to migrate to the area. Following the discovery of gold in California in 1848, settlers flooded into the San Joaquin Valley. In 1851, gold was discovered along the Kern River in the southern Sierra Nevada, and in 1865, oil was discovered in the valley. The Bakersfield area, once a tule-reed-covered marshland, was first known as Kern Island to the handful of pioneers who built log cabins there in 1860. The area was subject to periodic flooding from the Kern River, which occupied what is now the downtown area, and experienced outbreaks of malaria.
In 1862, disastrous floods swept away the original settlement founded in 1860 by the German-born Christian Bohna. Among those attracted to the area by the California gold rush was Thomas Baker, a lawyer and former colonel in the militia of Ohio, his home state. Baker moved to the banks of the Kern River in 1863, at what became known as Baker's Field, which became a stopover for travelers. By 1870, with a population of 600, what is now known as Bakersfield was becoming the principal town in Kern County.
In 1873, Bakersfield was officially incorporated as a city, and by 1874 it officially replaced the dying town of Havilah as the county seat. Alexander Mills was hired as the city marshal, a man one historian would describe as "... an old man by the time he became Marshal of Bakersfield, and he walked with a cane. But he was a Kentuckian, a handy man with a gun, and not lacking in initiative and resource when the mood moved him." Businessmen and others began to resent Mills, who was cantankerous and high-handed in his treatment of them. Wanting to fire him but fearing reprisals, they came up with a scheme to disincorporate, effectively leaving him without an employer. According to local historian Gilbert Gia the city was also failing to collect the taxes it needed for services. In 1876, the city voted to disincorporate. For the next 22 years, a citizen's council managed the community.
By 1880, the town had a population of 801, and by 1890, it had a population of 2,626. Migration from Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Southern California brought new residents, who were mostly employed by the oil industry.
The city reincorporated on January 11, 1898.
Main article: 1952 Kern County earthquake
On July 21, 1952, an earthquake struck at 4:52 am Pacific Daylight Time. The earthquake, which measured 7.5 on the moment magnitude scale and was felt from San Francisco to the Mexican border, destroyed the nearby communities of Tehachapi and Arvin. The earthquake's destructive force also bent cotton fields into U shapes, slid a shoulder of the Tehachapi Mountains across all four lanes of the Ridge Route, collapsed a water tower creating a flash flood, and destroyed the railroad tunnels in the mountain chain.[citation needed] Bakersfield was spared, experiencing minor architectural damage without loss of life.
A large aftershock occurred on July 29, and did minor architectural damage, but raised fears that the flow of the Friant-Kern Canal could be dangerously altered, potentially flooding the city and surrounding areas.
Aftershocks, for the next month, had become normal to Bakersfield residents, until August 22 at 3:42 pm a 5.8 earthquake struck directly under the town's center in the most densely populated area of the southern San Joaquin Valley. Four people died in the aftershock, and some of the town's historic structures sustained heavy damage.
Between 1970 and 2010, Bakersfield grew 400% (from 70,000 to 347,483),[33] making it one of the fastest growing cities in California.
Bakersfield's close proximity to mountain passes, primarily the Tejon Pass on Interstate 5 between the Los Angeles metropolis and the central San Joaquin Valley, has made the city a regional transportation hub.
In 1990, Bakersfield was one of ten U.S. communities to receive the All-America City Award from the National Civic League.
In 2010, the Bakersfield MSA had a gross metropolitan product of $29.466 billion, making it the 73rd largest metropolitan economy in the United States.
Treffer 1 bis 7 von 7
Nachname, Taufnamen | Geburt | Personen-Kennung | ||
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1 | Lehr, Janis Genevieve | 22 Okt 1945 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172487 |
2 | Lehr, Randy D. | 21 Nov 1967 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172686 |
3 | Mettler, James Roland | 6 Nov 1938 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I96935 |
4 | Miller, Robert Francis | 1 Okt 1936 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I105115 |
5 | Peters, Alan Frank | 13 Dez 1939 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I105134 |
6 | Peters, Marilyn Ruth | 5 Mai 1936 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I105125 |
7 | Peters, Simone | 29 Mai 1941 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I105114 |
Treffer 1 bis 39 von 39
Nachname, Taufnamen | Tod | Personen-Kennung | ||
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1 | Cox, Calvin Nathan | 24 Feb 1971 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98109 |
2 | Cross, William Otis | 18 Mai 2002 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I210296 |
3 | Crow, Leta Mae | 5 Dez 1996 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172486 |
4 | Darbyshire, Frank Matthew | 17 Mrz 1939 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I174076 |
5 | Dorr, George Adam | 5 Nov 1987 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I116282 |
6 | Gilfillan, John James | 23 Nov 1993 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I113567 |
7 | Gimbel, Christina | 14 Dez 1961 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I108986 |
8 | Goehring, Ewald John | 6 Jul 2007 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I110391 |
9 | Goehring, Gideon Wilhelm | 20 Jan 1997 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98464 |
10 | Goehring, Olivia Paulina | 31 Dez 1990 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98526 |
11 | Hirning, Wilhelm Albert | 9 Sep 1988 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I113564 |
12 | Hofman, Olinda Johanna | 22 Jul 1988 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I3613 |
13 | Kirschenmann, Christian | 1 Sep 1976 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98060 |
14 | Kirschenmann, Edward | 30 Jun 1973 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I97991 |
15 | Kirschenmann, Eleanor Mabel | 31 Aug 2004 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98108 |
16 | Kirschenmann, Elmer E. | 11 Feb 2000 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98097 |
17 | Kirschenmann, Helmuth Jacob | 23 Sep 1992 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98062 |
18 | Kludt, Esther Viola | 8 Sep 2003 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172683 |
19 | Lehr, Emil E. | 25 Jun 2004 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I170795 |
20 | Lehr, Leo | 23 Jun 2005 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I170794 |
21 | Lehr, Randy D. | 31 Jul 1991 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172686 |
22 | Lehr, Tilmann Andrew | 25 Mrz 2000 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I170796 |
23 | Mettler, Alitha K. | 20 Mrz 1998 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I123361 |
24 | Mettler, Paulina J. | 21 Mrz 1969 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98524 |
25 | Neuharth, Hilda | 19 Okt 2007 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I123301 |
26 | Osborn, Cecil Wallace | 5 Dez 1988 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I225713 |
27 | Perman, Patricia Zella | 8 Feb 1994 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I116505 |
28 | Pfeifle, Arnold Erwin | 9 Jun 1993 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98496 |
29 | Pope, Merldine Lavern | 16 Apr 2007 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I12728 |
30 | Preszler, Alvin Otto | 27 Okt 1986 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98527 |
31 | Rohrbach, Marion | 15 Nov 1980 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I172689 |
32 | Schauer, Andrew David | 2 Dez 1990 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I62920 |
33 | Schnabel, Verletta | 10 Sep 1991 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98495 |
34 | Scott, Hubert Lee | 14 Okt 1995 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I193017 |
35 | Spitzer, Magdalena | 2 Feb 2000 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I97927 |
36 | Streyle, Erna Rose | 6 Apr 1994 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98463 |
37 | Whiteaker, Velma Emiline | 12 Mrz 1997 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I113565 |
38 | Zeeb, Ardina Christina | 5 Jan 2002 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I96931 |
39 | Zimpleman, Dorothy Viola | 25 Mai 2008 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I193016 |
Treffer 1 bis 3 von 3
Nachname, Taufnamen | Beerdigung | Personen-Kennung | ||
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1 | Darbyshire, Frank Matthew | 21 Mrz 1939 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I174076 |
2 | Kirschenmann, Eleanor Mabel | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I98108 | |
3 | Reichert, Johannes | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | I8128 |
Treffer 1 bis 3 von 3
Familie | Eheschließung | Familien-Kennung | ||
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1 | Peters / Kasper | 26 Aug 1934 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | F32951 |
2 | Pfeifle / Schnabel | 14 Nov 1937 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | F30708 |
3 | Zimbelman / Millican | 2 Mrz 1956 | Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA | F1091 |