Tehachapi
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Tehachapi may refer to:
  • Tehachapi, California
    Tehachapi, California
    Tehachapi is a city incorporated in 1909 located in the Tehachapi Mountains between Bakersfield and Mojave in Kern County, California. Tehachapi is located east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of...

     in the Tehachapi Mountains
    • Tehachapi High School
      Tehachapi High School
      Tehachapi High School is the single comprehensive high school serving students in grades 9-12 in the Tehachapi, California area, a mountain pass region between Bakersfield in California's central valley and Lancaster/Palmdale in the high desert...

       in Tehachapi, California
    • Tehachapi Unified School District
      Tehachapi Unified School District
      The Tehachapi Unified School District is a school district in the Tehachapi, California area with approximately 4,900 students. Richard L. Swanson Ph.D. is the district's Superintendent...

      , based in Tehachapi, California
  • Tehachapi Mountains
    Tehachapi Mountains
    The Tehachapi Mountains , regionally also called The Tehachapis, are a mountain range in the Transverse Ranges system of California in the Western United States...

     surrounding Tehachapi, California, and often considered the southern boundary of Central California
  • Tehachapi Municipal Airport (KTSP) in Tehachapi, California
  • Tehachapi News
    Tehachapi News
    Tehachapi News is the local source for news and events affecting the residents and businesses in Tehachapi, California. The newspaper is published every Wednesday and is available through home delivery and at rack locations throughout the area....

    , based in Tehachapi, California
  • Tehachapi Pass
    Tehachapi Pass
    Tehachapi Pass is a mountain pass crossing the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, California in the United States. The route over the pass connects the San Joaquin Valley to the Mojave Desert...

     in the Tehachapi Mountains
    • Tehachapi Loop
      Tehachapi Loop
      The Tehachapi Loop is a long 'spiral', or helix, on The Union Pacific Railroad through Tehachapi Pass, in south central California. The railroad line connects Bakersfield in the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Antelope Valley. The loop takes its name from the circuitous route it takes, in...

      , the railroad engineering feat enabling trains to traverse the Tehachapi Pass
  • Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm
    Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm
    Wind development in the Tehachapi Pass began in the early 1980s. The area hosts a multitude of wind farms, comprising one of California's largest wind resource areas. The pass is undergoing much repowering activity...

    , one of the largest wind farms in California
  • Tehachapi Tribe, an Indian tribe best remembered for the 1863 Keyesville Massacre
    Keyesville Massacre
    Keyesville Massacre occurred on April 19, 1863, in Tulare County, now Kern County, California during the Owens Valley Indian War. White settlers and a detachment of the 2nd California Volunteer Cavalry under Captain Moses A...

     in which 53 men from the tribe were killed in Keyesville, California

In popular culture

  • Tehachapi, a 1995 Christina Applegate
    Christina Applegate
    Christina Applegate is an American actress. She is best known for playing Kelly Bundy on the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. Since then, she has established a film and television career, winning a Primetime Emmy and earning Tony and Golden Globe nominations...

     movie, later retitled Across the Moon
  • Endurance Tehachapi
    Endurance (TV series)
    Endurance is an American reality television children's program, currently shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor, though with a teenaged cast...

    , the fourth season of the Survivor-like reality program featuring teenagers
  • Reference in the chorus of the song "Willin'" by Lowell George of Little Feat
    Little Feat
    Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....

    on the albums Little Feat, Sailin' Shoes and Waiting for Columbus:
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