Talk:Kern County, California
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Revar 22:03, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
Regarding the line:
Kern County is home to the world's largest open pit mine at Boron, which mines borax.
I believe this to be false. It is California's largest open-pit mine, and it may be the world's largest borate mine, but there's several larger open-pit mines in the world.
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[edit] map
Ok, that map is WAY too big. Someone should drastically resize it! --I'm Working for Him 02:41, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Media Market
Regarding the comment that Kern County is one of TWO counties split by Nielsen into two media marketplaces. While this is certainly notable, I believe there are are more than two in California alone. Off the top of my head I can think of Riverside (split between Los Angeles/Palm Springs/Phoenix) and Solano (split between San Francisco and Sacramento). To make things even more interesting in the case of Riverside, stations from the El Centro-Yuma DMA are more considered the "local market" in the Phoenix DMA viewing area, and at least one TV station from San Diego is received in the Temecula-Murrieta area (Los Angeles DMA). I believe San Bernardino for statistical purposes is considered Los Angeles DMA, but Arbitron, a former Nielsen competitor, placed the eastern half of San Bernardino in its "Phoenix ADI", and I believe a few Las Vegas stations are received in this area as well. Anyway getting on a tangent, here as it is not germane to the case of Kern County, just pointing out that I believer there are more than two in California alone. --Larry G 09:39, 27 July 2007 (UTC)jhghjkghu
[edit] Agriculture
This article doesn't say anything about agriculture. There is a lot of cultivated land in Kern County. Add something if you run across any numbers. User_talk:David Jordan
[edit] Notability
The single most notable thing about Kern County is that it's the setting for The Grapes Of Wrath. I can't believe that that's not even mentioned in the article. I mean, I understand it's not very flattering, but it's what the place is known for. How is it not even mentioned? Anonymous
