1981 Map of Taft
USGS Topo · Published 1982About this map
The San Andreas Rift Zone carves a striking path through this section of the southern San Joaquin Valley and the high ridges of the Temblor Range. At the center of the sheet, the industrial landscape of the oil fields dominates, including the massive Naval Petroleum Reserve No 1 (Elk Hills) and Naval Petroleum Reserve No 2 (Buena Vista Hills). These reserves, alongside fields like the Midway-Sunset Oil Field and Kern River Oil Field, illustrate the region's intensive 20th-century energy development. In the flatlands to the east, the Buena Vista Lakebed and Kern Lakebed signify the altered hydrology of the valley, where the Kern River and the California Aqueduct now manage water for agriculture and the growing city of Bakersfield. Small oil-town settlements like Fellows, McKittrick, and Taft anchor the western valley floor amidst a complex network of pipelines and the Sunset RR.
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