Place:Weedpatch, Kern, California, United States

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NameWeedpatch
Alt namesWeed Patchsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCensus-designated place
Coordinates35.241°N 118.915°W
Located inKern, California, United States
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Weedpatch (formerly, Weed Patch[1] and Alexander's Corner[2]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in the San Joaquin Valley, in Kern County, California, United States. Weedpatch is located south-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 387 feet (118 m).[1] As of the 2010 census, the CDP had a total population of 2,658, down from 2,726 reported at the 2000 census.

Weedpatch is located off State Route 184 (Weedpatch Highway) southeast of Bakersfield, south of Lamont, and about south of State Route 58, the Bakersfield - Tehachapi Highway.

Weedpatch is the location of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially (and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath) as "Weedpatch Camp." This camp was a government rescue center for distressed migrant workers fleeing the Oklahoma Dust Bowl agricultural disaster, during the Great Depression. The camp still aids migrants today.

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