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Shafter

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Shafter

City in south-central California, 27 km/17 mi northwest of Bakersfield, in the extreme south of the San Joaquin Valley; population (1990) 8,400. An agricultural community that also produces cement, it was the site of Minter Field, a World War II air base.



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