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About Ridgecrest, California
Ridgecrest is located in the southern portion of the Indian Wells Valley and in the northeast corner of Kern County, surrounded by four mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada on the west, the Cosos on the north, the Argus Range on the east, and the El Paso Mountains on the south. A favorable characteristic of the city is its proximity to two major highways, the 395 and 14. Air travel in and out of the city is provided through the Inyoken Airport. These attributes make Ridgecrest a central location for shopping and business for the Easter Kern County area. The City is also easily accessible to the rest of southern California making it an ideal location for industry. According to the 2010 census, the city’s population was 27,616.
As the only incorporated community in the Indian Wells Valley, Ridgecrest acts as the urban center for northeastern Kern, Inyo and San Bernardino Counties. The City’s incorporated area includes approximately 13,300 acres. Ridgecrest is host to the famed federal research and development laboratory at China Lake.
NOTS, later China Lake Naval Weapons Center (NWC) and now the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station (NAWS) home to the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWC) Weapons Division, continues to be the major source of employment for Ridgecrest residents. At the same time, NAWS depends increasingly upon Ridgecrest for support services. The economic stability Ridgecrest has enjoyed as a service community for the NAWS has been essential to its successful emergence as a community in its own right.