California
San Joaquin Valley
Kern County

Bodfish

Bodfish is a census-designated place in the southern Kern River Valley of the Southern Sierra Nevada, in , United States. Bodfish is located 32 miles east-northeast of , at an elevation of 2,687 feet.
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  • Type: Village with 2,010 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Kern County, California
  • Also known as: “Bodfish, CA”, “Bodfish, California”, and “Vaughn”
  • Postal code: 93205

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kern Valley High School.

School
is a small high school located in , and is one of the comprehensive high schools in the Kern High School District. is situated 2 miles northeast of Bodfish.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lake Isabella and Miracle Hot Springs.

Town
Photo: Bobak, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a census-designated place in the southern Sierra Nevada, in , United States. It is named after the reservoir and located at its southwestern edge, 6 miles south of in the Kern River Valley. is situated 1½ miles northeast of Bodfish.

Locality
is an unincorporated community in the Kern River Valley, in , . It is located along the in the 10 miles west of , at an elevation of 2,382 feet. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Bodfish.

Hamlet
Photo: Bobak, CC BY 3.0.
was an unincorporated community in that was completely destroyed by the 2024 Borel Fire. The land is located in the mountains between and the Kern River Valley, 5 miles south-southwest of Bodfish at an elevation of 3,136 feet. is situated 5 miles south of Bodfish.

Bodfish

Latitude
35.59086° or 35° 35′ 27″ north
Longitude
-118.49442° or 118° 29′ 40″ west
Population
2,010
Elevation
2,687 feet (819 metres)
Open location code
8573HGR4+86
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5154339879
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5329754
Wiki­data ID
Q2396293
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Bodfish” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بودفيش”
  • Basque: “Bodfish”
  • Catalan: “Bodfish”
  • Cebuano: “Bodfish”
  • Chechen: “Бодфиш”
  • Chinese: “Bodfish”
  • Chinese: “博德菲什”
  • Croatian: “Bodfish”
  • Dutch: “Bodfish”
  • French: “Bodfish”
  • German: “Bodfish”
  • Gilaki: “بادفیش”
  • Indonesian: “Bodfish, California”
  • Irish: “Bodfish”
  • Italian: “Bodfish”
  • Ladin: “Bodfish”
  • Malagasy: “Bodfish, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Bodfish”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bodfish”
  • Newari: “बोदफिस, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “बोदफिस”
  • Persian: “بادفیش، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “بادفیش”
  • Polish: “Bodfish”
  • Portuguese: “Bodfish”
  • Serbian: “Бодфиш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bodfish, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bodfish”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بادفیش، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Bodfish (California)”
  • Spanish: “Bodfish, California”
  • Spanish: “Bodfish”
  • Tatar: “Бодфиш”
  • Turkish: “Bodfish”
  • Ukrainian: “Бодфіш”
  • Volapük: “Bodfish”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bodfish”. Photo: David Jordan, CC BY-SA 3.0.