Discovery of Kern County Oil Fields

Old Sunset…………….Hand Dug Wells Up To 100 Feet Deep for asphaltum
Asphalto………………..Seeps

Bofore 1900

Location

Date

McKittrick

First about 1861-1890

Midway Sunset

± 1890

Kern River

9/1/1899

1900-1909

Location

Date

Temblor Ranch

5/20/1900

Cymric

11/1/1909

1910-1919

Location

Date

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

1920-1929

Location

Date

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

1930-1939

Location

Date

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

1940-1949

Location

Date

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

1950-1959

Location

Date

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

1960-1969

Location

Date

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

1970-1979

Location

Date

Yowlumne

1/1974

Carneros Creek

3/5/1976

1980-1989

Location

Date

Eagle Rest

3/11/1981

North Shafter

10/12/1983

Landslide

7/19/1985

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