Dates of Discovery of Kern County Oil Fields

Old Sunset................Hand Dug Wells Up To 100 Feet Deep for asphaltum
Asphalto....................Seeps
McKittrick................First about 1861-1890
Midway Sunset..........± 1890
Kern River................9/1/1899
Temblor Ranch..........5/20/1900
Cymric......................11/1/1909
Lost Hills....................7/1/1910
South Belridge............4/21/1911
Elk Hills......................6/16/1911
Kern Front.................6/1/1912
North Belridge...........10/20/1912
Poso Creek...............12/19/1920
Wheeler Ridge...........11/24/1922
Asphalto.....................7/25/1923
Mount Poso................7/20/1926
Chico-Martinez...........3/29/1927
Round Mountain..........5/31/1927
Buttonwillow Gas.........8/4/1927
Fruitvale......................2/09/1928
Edison.........................7/6/1928
Terra Bella..................2/18/1930
Mountain View............5/13/1933
Paloma........................7/12/1934
Trico Gas....................1/9/1935
Semitropic...................3/8/1935
Tejon..........................6/23/1935
Ten Section.................6/2/1936
Greeley.......................12/23/1936
Wasco.........................4/26/1937
Rio Bravo...................11/04/1937
Canfield Ranch............1/20/1938
South Coles Levee.......11/11/1938
Strand.........................6/3/1939
Dyer Creek.................9/21/1941
Shafter.......................12/8/1941
Antelope Hills.............5/10/1942
McClung....................9/16/1943
Blackwells Corner......12/30/1943
Kern Bluff ...................2/25/1944
Bellevue......................5/10/1944
Ant Hill.......................7/12/1944
Rosedale Ranch..........3/8/1945
McDonald Anticline.....7/27/1945
Jasmin.........................7/25/1946
Belgian Anticline..........10/21/1946
San Emigdio.................3/4/1948
Tejon Hills...................7/24/1948
Railroad Gap...............7/5/1948
Antelope Plains Gas.....6/22/1949
North Antelope Hills.....6/1/1950
Pioneer........................7/20/1950
Pleito...........................8/8/1951
Rosedale.....................9/24/1951
Goosloo......................1/8/1952
Welcome Valley..........2/10/1952
Los Lobos...................7/9/1952
Tejon Flats..................3/19/1953
East Temblor...............6/14/1953
Deer Creek.................12/14/1953
Southeast Shafter Gas..12/10/1954
North Tejon.................3/5/1956
Jerry Slough.................7/14/1956
Shale Point Gas............8/3/1956
Gonyer Anticline..........10/31/1956
West Bellevue..............2/18/1957
San Emidio Nose.........7/2/1958
Garrison City Gas........1/7/1959
Lakeside....................12/31/1959
White Wolf.................3/15/1960
Shale Flats Gas...........7/19/1960
Northwest Semitropic Gas..3/1/1961
Kernsumner.................6/3/1961
Valpredo.....................11/11/1961
North Deer Creek.......11/30/1961
Stockdale.....................1/8/1962
English Colony..............4/8/1964
Seventh Standard.........12/20/1966
San Emigdio Creek.......11/7/1967
Beer Nose....................3/31/1968
Yowlumne....................1/1974
Carneros Creek............3/5/1976
Eagle Rest....................3/11/1981
North Shafter..............10/12/1983
Landslide......................7/19/1985


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