Tehachapi
Tehachapi is a city in Kern County, California in a valley within the Tehachapi Mountains which separate the San Joaquin Valley from the Mojave Desert.
- Type: Town with 14,400 residents
- Description: city in Kern County, California, United States
- Also known as: “Greenwich”, “Tehachapa”, “Tehachapai”, “Tehachapi, CA”, “Tehachapi, California”, “Tehachepi”, and “Tehachipi”
- Postal codes: 93561 and 93581
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tehachapi Municipal Airport and Errea House.
Tehachapi Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Tehachapi Municipal Airport is in Tehachapi, Kern County, California. It covers 264 acres and has one runway. The airport was established in 1929 originally to support an air mail route between Tehachapi and Bakersfield.
Errea House
Museum
The Errea House, a historic house located at 311 S. Green St. in Tehachapi, California, is the house is the only surviving building from the settlement of Tehichipa, the first town in the Tehachapi area.
Tompkins Elementary School
School
Tehachapi is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet, between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Golden Hills and Old Town.
Golden Hills
Village
Golden Hills is a census-designated place in the Tehachapi Mountains, in Kern County, California, United States. The population was 9,578 at the 2020 census, up from 8,656 at the 2010 census. Golden Hills adjoins the city of Tehachapi on the west. Golden Hills is situated 2½ miles west of Tehachapi.
Old Town
Locality
Old Town is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located 3 miles west-northwest of Tehachapi, at an elevation of 3829 feet. The name Williamsburg honored James E. Old Town is situated 2½ miles west of Tehachapi.
Tehachapi
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Kern County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.1322° or 35° 7′ 56″ north
Longitude
-118.449° or 118° 26′ 56″ west
Population
14,400
Elevation
3,970 feet (1,210 metres)
IATA airport code
TSP
United Nations Location Code
US TSP
Open location code
85734HJ2+VC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Tehachapi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيهاتشابي”
- Basque: “Tehachapi”
- Bulgarian: “Тъхечапи”
- Catalan: “Tehachapi”
- Cebuano: “Tehachapi”
- Chechen: “Теачапи”
- Chinese: “Tehachapi”
- Chinese: “特哈查比”
- Chinese: “蒂哈查皮”
- Croatian: “Tehachapi”
- Czech: “Tehachapi”
- Danish: “Tehachapi”
- Dutch: “Tehachapi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تيهاتشابى”
- French: “Tehachapi”
- German: “Tehachapi”
- Gilaki: “تهاچاپي”
- Haitian: “Tehachapi, Kalifòni”
- Haitian: “Tehachapi”
- Hebrew: “טהצ’פי”
- Hungarian: “Tehachapi”
- Irish: “Tehachapi”
- Italian: “Tehachapi”
- Japanese: “テハチャピ”
- Ladin: “Tehachapi”
- Malagasy: “Tehachapi, Kalifornia”
- Malagasy: “Tehachapi”
- Malayalam: “ടെഹാചാപി”
- Mazanderani: “تهاچاپی (کالیفورنیا)”
- Mazanderani: “تهاچاپی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tehachapi”
- Navajo: “Achʼįʼ Nahonitłʼahii”
- Newari: “तेहाचापी, क्यालिफोर्निया”
- Newari: “तेहाचापी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tehachapi”
- Norwegian: “Tehachapi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tehachapi”
- Persian: “تهاچاپی، کالیفرنیا”
- Persian: “تهاچاپی”
- Polish: “Tehachapi”
- Portuguese: “Tehachapi”
- Romanian: “Tehachapi, California”
- Romanian: “Tehachapi”
- Russian: “Техачапи”
- Serbian: “Tehačapi”
- Serbian: “Tehachapi”
- Serbian: “Техачапи”
- Serbian: “Техачепи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tehachapi, California”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tehachapi”
- Slovak: “Tehachapi”
- South Azerbaijani: “تهاچاپی، کالیفورنیا”
- Spanish: “Tehachapi (California)”
- Spanish: “Tehachapi”
- Swedish: “Tehachapi”
- Tagalog: “Tehachapi, California”
- Tagalog: “Tehachapi”
- Tatar: “Теачапи”
- Turkish: “Tehachapi, Kaliforniya”
- Turkish: “Tehachapi”
- Ukrainian: “Теачапі”
- Urdu: “تیہاچاپی، کیلیفورنیا”
- Uzbek: “Tehachapi”
- Uzbek: “Теҳачапи”
- Volapük: “Tehachapi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tehachapi, California”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tehachapi”
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