California
San Joaquin Valley
Kern County

Taft

Taft is a small community at the eastern foot of the Temblor mountains, in in the of . It is not much of a vacation destination although there are sites to see including the oil museum, a historic fort and the Carrizo Plains National Monument.
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  • Type: Village with 9,150 residents
  • Description: city in Kern County, California, United States
  • Also known as: “Moro”, “Moron”, “Siding Number Two”, “Taft, CA”, and “Taft, California”
  • Postal code: 93268

Places of Interest

Highlights include Taft Airport and Taft Union High School.

Aerodrome
, also known as Taft-Kern County Airport, is a public located one mile east of Taft, serving , , . This general aviation airport covers 71 acres and has one runway.

School
Photo: Bobak, CC BY 3.0.
is located in Taft in Kern County, California, in the United States. Taft High was founded in 1912. Taft is a small city of fewer than 10,000, and the school also serves the surrounding rural area, which in the early 21st century has a total population of about 20,000.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midoil.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , . It is located 2 miles southeast of , at an elevation of 1,339 feet. is no longer a permanently populated place. is situated 4 miles west of Taft.

Taft

Latitude
35.1425° or 35° 8′ 33″ north
Longitude
-119.4565° or 119° 27′ 23″ west
Population
9,150
Elevation
955 feet (291 metres)
Open location code
85724GRV+X9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150960460
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5400877
Wiki­data ID
Q983611
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Taft” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تافت”
  • Basque: “Taft”
  • Bulgarian: “Тафт”
  • Catalan: “Taft”
  • Cebuano: “Taft”
  • Chechen: “Тафт”
  • Chinese: “Taft”
  • Chinese: “塔夫脫”
  • Chinese: “塔夫脱”
  • Croatian: “Taft”
  • Danish: “Taft”
  • Dutch: “Taft”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تافت”
  • French: “Taft”
  • German: “Taft”
  • Gilaki: “تافت”
  • Haitian: “Taft, Kalifòni”
  • Haitian: “Taft”
  • Hungarian: “Taft”
  • Irish: “Taft”
  • Italian: “Taft”
  • Japanese: “タフト”
  • Korean: “태프트”
  • Ladin: “Taft”
  • Malagasy: “Taft, Kalifornia”
  • Malagasy: “Taft”
  • Mazanderani: “تافت (کالیفورنیا)”
  • Mazanderani: “تافت”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Taft”
  • Navajo: “Tsin Yaaʼáhí”
  • Newari: “टाफ्ट (क्यालिफोर्निया)”
  • Newari: “टाफ्ट, क्यालिफोर्निया”
  • Newari: “टाफ्ट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Taft”
  • Norwegian: “Taft”
  • Persian: “تافت، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “تافت”
  • Polish: “Taft”
  • Portuguese: “Taft”
  • Russian: “Тафт”
  • Serbian: “Taft”
  • Serbian: “Тафт”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taft, California”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Taft”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تافت، کالیفورنیا”
  • Spanish: “Taft (California)”
  • Spanish: “Taft”
  • Swedish: “Taft, Kalifornien”
  • Swedish: “Taft”
  • Tagalog: “Taft, California”
  • Tagalog: “Taft”
  • Tatar: “Тафт”
  • Turkish: “Taft, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Taft”
  • Ukrainian: “Тафт”
  • Urdu: “ٹافٹ، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Uzbek: “Taft”
  • Uzbek: “Тафт”
  • Volapük: “Taft”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taft, California”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Taft”
  • “Taft”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Taft”. Photo: Bobak, CC BY 3.0.