Glennville, CA

Glennville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Kern County, California. The 2020 census counted 158 residents. The first white settlers in the area were George Ely and William Linn, who arrived together in 1854. Ely died in 1859 and Linn left the area around the same time. Glennville's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider California setting. The local scoop is how Glennville's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Glennville is located 30 miles north-northeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 3,081 feet in the Greenhorn Mountains foothills, a range of the Sierra Nevada.