Kern River Slough

The Kern River Slough traveled northwest from Bakersfield to Goose Lake near Tulare Lake.

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]

  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.