Bakersfield is a city in and the county seat of Kern County, California, United States. The city covers about 151 sq mi (390 km 2) [10][11] near the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley, which is located in the Central Valley region.

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Bakersfield, city, seat (1875) of Kern county, south-central California, U.S. Located in the San Joaquin Valley, it was founded along the Los Angeles and Stockton road in 1869 by Thomas Baker, who reclaimed swamplands along the nearby Kern River.

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Long before it became known for its Basque restaurants and oil fields, Bakersfield grew from a mid-19th-century settlement along the Kern River into a key agricultural and transportation hub in California’s southern San Joaquin Valley.

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