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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.

Geburt

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Geburt		Personen-Kennung
1	Peters, Simone	29 Mai 1941	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I105114
2	Peters, Marilyn Ruth	5 Mai 1936	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I105125
3	Peters, Alan Frank	13 Dez 1939	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I105134
4	Miller, Robert Francis	1 Okt 1936	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I105115
5	Mettler, James Roland	6 Nov 1938	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I96935
6	Lehr, Randy D.	21 Nov 1967	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172686
7	Lehr, Janis Genevieve	22 Okt 1945	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172487

Tod

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Tod		Personen-Kennung
1	Zimpleman, Dorothy Viola	25 Mai 2008	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I193016
2	Zeeb, Ardina Christina	5 Jan 2002	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I96931
3	Whiteaker, Velma Emiline	12 Mrz 1997	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I113565
4	Streyle, Erna Rose	6 Apr 1994	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98463
5	Spitzer, Magdalena	2 Feb 2000	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I97927
6	Scott, Hubert Lee	14 Okt 1995	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I193017
7	Schnabel, Verletta	10 Sep 1991	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98495
8	Schauer, Andrew David	2 Dez 1990	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I62920
9	Rohrbach, Marion	15 Nov 1980	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172689
10	Preszler, Alvin Otto	27 Okt 1986	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98527
11	Pope, Merldine Lavern	16 Apr 2007	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I12728
12	Pfeifle, Arnold Erwin	9 Jun 1993	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98496
13	Perman, Patricia Zella	8 Feb 1994	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I116505
14	Osborn, Cecil Wallace	5 Dez 1988	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I225713
15	Neuharth, Hilda	19 Okt 2007	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I123301
16	Mettler, Paulina J.	21 Mrz 1969	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98524
17	Mettler, Alitha K.	20 Mrz 1998	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I123361
18	Lehr, Tilmann Andrew	25 Mrz 2000	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I170796
19	Lehr, Randy D.	31 Jul 1991	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172686
20	Lehr, Leo	23 Jun 2005	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I170794
21	Lehr, Emil E.	25 Jun 2004	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I170795
22	Kludt, Esther Viola	8 Sep 2003	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172683
23	Kirschenmann, Helmuth Jacob	23 Sep 1992	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98062
24	Kirschenmann, Elmer E.	11 Feb 2000	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98097
25	Kirschenmann, Eleanor Mabel	31 Aug 2004	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98108
26	Kirschenmann, Edward	30 Jun 1973	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I97991
27	Kirschenmann, Christian	1 Sep 1976	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98060
28	Hofman, Olinda Johanna	22 Jul 1988	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I3613
29	Hirning, Wilhelm Albert	9 Sep 1988	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I113564
30	Goehring, Olivia Paulina	31 Dez 1990	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98526
31	Goehring, Gideon Wilhelm	20 Jan 1997	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98464
32	Goehring, Ewald John	6 Jul 2007	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I110391
33	Gimbel, Christina	14 Dez 1961	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I108986
34	Gilfillan, John James	23 Nov 1993	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I113567
35	Dorr, George Adam	5 Nov 1987	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I116282
36	Darbyshire, Frank Matthew	17 Mrz 1939	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I174076
37	Crow, Leta Mae	5 Dez 1996	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I172486
38	Cross, William Otis	18 Mai 2002	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I210296
39	Cox, Calvin Nathan	24 Feb 1971	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98109

Beerdigung

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	Nachname, Taufnamen	Beerdigung		Personen-Kennung
1	Reichert, Johannes		Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I8128
2	Kirschenmann, Eleanor Mabel		Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I98108
3	Darbyshire, Frank Matthew	21 Mrz 1939	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	I174076

Eheschließung

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	Familie	Eheschließung		Familien-Kennung
1	Zimbelman / Millican	2 Mrz 1956	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	F1091
2	Pfeifle / Schnabel	14 Nov 1937	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	F30708
3	Peters / Kasper	26 Aug 1934	Bakersfield, Kern County, California, USA	F32951