Kern Lake

Kern Lake
Kern Lake
	Kern Lake Kern Lake
Location	San Joaquin Valley; Kern County, California
Coordinates	35°07′20″N 119°03′22″W / 35.122188°N 119.056216°W
Lake type	Flat
Primary inflows	Kern River
Basin countries	United States
Surface elevation	282 ft (86 m)
References	U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kern Lake Bed

Kern Lake,^[1]was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California.

It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River. Kern Lake is now a dry lake bed, due to agricultural diversion of the Kern River waters and the aquifer.^[2]

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^ Plan del paraje conocido bajo el nombre de Tejon, From U.S. District Court, California, Land case map D-1366A (Land case S.D. 327 p. 89 in Bancroft Library); José A. Aguirre et al., claimants.Tracing of 1843 ms. map. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink.4362 E48
^ George Gilbert Lynch, THE LATE, GREAT, BUENA VISTA LAKE, Historic Kern, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 3, Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, Fall - 2009 Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine

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[1] Plan del paraje conocido bajo el nombre de Tejon, From U.S. District Court, California, Land case map D-1366A (Land case S.D. 327 p. 89 in Bancroft Library); José A. Aguirre et al., claimants.Tracing of 1843 ms. map. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink.4362 E48

[2] George Gilbert Lynch, THE LATE, GREAT, BUENA VISTA LAKE, Historic Kern, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 3, Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, Fall - 2009 Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine

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Kern Lake

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