Salt Spring, originally, Aguaje de la Brea (tar springs), a spring in the Antelope Plain[2] on the southeast end of Pyramid Hills, 0.6 miles south of Emigrant Hill[3] and 1.5 miles north of Wagon Wheel Mountain[4] in the Pyramid Hills of Kern County, California.[1] Its location appears on a 1914 USGS Topographic map of Lost Hills.[5] Salt Spring is located just east of the Pyramid Hills and the Devils Den Oil Field,[6] 3 miles southwest of Devils Den,[7][8] close by the south side of Kecks Road, 0.23 miles east of the California Aqueduct, enclosed by a fence.
| Salt Spring | |
|---|---|
| Aguaje La Brea (Spanish) | |
  location of Salt Spring in California[1] | |
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| Name origin | Spanish |
| Location | Kern County, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 35°43′50″N 119°59′07″W / 35.73056°N 119.98528°W |
| Elevation | 509 m (1,670 ft) |
| Type | Spring |
| USGS topo map: Emigrant Hill | |
History edit
Aguaje de la Brea was one of the watering places on the route of El Camino Viejo in the San Joaquin Valley between Alamo Solo Spring to the north and Las Tinajas de Los Indios to the south. At the Aguaje de la Brea, oil covered the water of the spring deceiving many thirsty wayfarers, who passed by thinking it only a pool of oil.[8]
References edit
- ^ a b "Salt Spring". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-12-06.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Antelope Plain
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Emigrant Hill
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Wagon Wheel Mountain
- ^ USGS Topo: Lost Hills, Edition Date: 1914, Scale 1: 125000; from California Historic Topographic Map Collection -Meriam Library, California State College, Chico, accessed December 6, 2011
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Devils Den Oil Field
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Devils Den
- ^ a b Mildred Brooke Hoover, Historic spots in California, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, p.124
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