Kern River Slough

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Kern River Slough was the distributary of the Kern River running northwest from the vicinity of Bakersfield{{Cite book |last=Hittell |first=Theodore Henry |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=NUkOAAAAIAAJ&pg=GBS.PA138&hl=en |title=History of California |date=1898 |publisher=N. J. Stone & Co. |location=San Francisco |pages=138 |language=en}} to Goose Lake near Tulare Lake in Kern County, California.{{Cite book |last=Hilgard |first=Eugene Woldemar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gyFFAQAAMAAJ&q=%22kern+river+slough%22 |title=Report on the Physical and Agricultural Features of the State of California |date=1884 |publisher=Department of the Interior, Census Office |page=757 |language=en}}

These former bodies of water in the Tulare Lake Basin of the San Joaquin Valley have now all been diverted for agricultural use.{{cite book |last=Haslam |first=Gerald |url=https://archive.org/details/othercaliforniag0000hasl/mode/2up?view=theater |title=The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters |publisher=University of Nevada Press |others=The Internet Archive |year=1994 |isbn=0-88496-321-7 |location=Reno, Las Vegas, London |pages=18–20}}

The Kern River Slough Station was a stagecoach station operated by the Butterfield Overland Mail and was located miles to the southeast of this slough.{{Cite web |title=KERN RIVER SLOUGH STATION |url=https://www.parks.ca.gov/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230402231150/https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/588 |archive-date=April 2, 2023 |access-date=2024-02-26 |website=CA State Parks |language=en}}