Bodfish, CA

Bodfish is a census-designated place in the southern Kern River Valley of Kern County, 32 miles east-northeast of Bakersfield. It sits in the Southern Sierra Nevada at about 2,687 feet of elevation and had 2,008 residents at the 2020 census. The place was named for George Homer Bodfish, who settled nearby in 1867. Bodfish is small and mountain-valley orie...