Kern River Slough Explained

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]

References

1. Book: Hittell, Theodore Henry . History of California . 1898 . N. J. Stone & Co. . San Francisco . 138 . en.
2. Book: Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar . Report on the Physical and Agricultural Features of the State of California . 1884 . Department of the Interior, Census Office . 757 . en.
3. Book: Haslam, Gerald . The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters . University of Nevada Press . The Internet Archive . 1994 . 0-88496-321-7 . Reno, Las Vegas, London . 18–20.
4. Web site: KERN RIVER SLOUGH STATION . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230402231150/https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/588 . April 2, 2023 . 2024-02-26 . CA State Parks . en.