Kern_River_Slough Knowpia

Kern River Slough was the distributary of the Kern River running northwest from the vicinity of Bakersfield^[1] to Goose Lake near Tulare Lake in Kern County, California.^[2]

These former bodies of water in the Tulare Lake Basin of the San Joaquin Valley have now all been diverted for agricultural use.^[3]

The Kern River Slough Station was a stagecoach station operated by the Butterfield Overland Mail and was located miles to the southeast of this slough.^[4]

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^ Hittell, Theodore Henry (1898). History of California. San Francisco: N. J. Stone & Co. p. 138.
^ Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar (1884). Report on the Physical and Agricultural Features of the State of California. Department of the Interior, Census Office. p. 757.
^ Haslam, Gerald (1994). The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. The Internet Archive. Reno, Las Vegas, London: University of Nevada Press. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0-88496-321-7.
^ "KERN RIVER SLOUGH STATION". CA State Parks. Archived from the original on April 2, 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

35°32′35″N 119°31′34″W / 35.5431°N 119.5261°W / 35.5431; -119.5261

[1] Hittell, Theodore Henry (1898). History of California. San Francisco: N. J. Stone & Co. p. 138.

[2] Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar (1884). Report on the Physical and Agricultural Features of the State of California. Department of the Interior, Census Office. p. 757.

[3] Haslam, Gerald (1994). The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters. The Internet Archive. Reno, Las Vegas, London: University of Nevada Press. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0-88496-321-7.

[4] "KERN RIVER SLOUGH STATION". CA State Parks. Archived from the original on April 2, 2023. Retrieved 2024-02-26.

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