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Prefedio Spring

Prefedio Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Prefedio Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,047 m. Piute Peak stands 2,565 m to the east-southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Caughran Spring, a spring 0.8 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates35.54625, -118.68097

Named places within 25 miles

Springs
Parks
  • Uffert Park: 11.8 mi
  • Lake Isabella Park: 12.0 mi
  • Father Garces Monument: 12.4 mi
  • Kern River County Park: 12.5 mi
  • Rivers Edge Park: 12.6 mi
Picnic sites: 5
Attractions: 5
  • woody rd: 14.1 mi
  • Coso Mines: 14.4 mi
  • checkpoint: 15.7 mi
  • Bakersfield Speedway: 20.6 mi
  • Bakersfield Jam: 22.5 mi
Nature reserves: 3
  • Lake Ming County Park: 13.2 mi
  • Rattlesnake Canyon: 15.0 mi
  • CSLC Open Space: 18.2 mi
Cliffs: 2
Historic sites: 2
Artworks: 2
Hot springs: 1
  • Miracle Hot Springs: 8.5 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Sister City Gardens: 21.9 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.4 miles of Prefedio Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Piute PeakESE 112°2,565 m17.6 mi
Sunday PeakNNE 18°2,531 m17.2 mi
Brown PeakESE 106°2,466 m15.1 mi
Liebel PeakE 100°2,452 m16.1 mi
Portuguese PeakNNE 17°2,417 m17.7 mi
Inspiration PointE 97°2,387 m18.3 mi
Breckenridge MountainSE 140°2,298 m8.6 mi
Black MountainNNE 33°2,267 m16.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3319:07
June solstice05:4019:3620:14
September equinox06:4318:1918:53
December solstice07:0116:0716:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424346505664717065564741
Precip in3.73.53.11.70.80.20.10.10.10.91.93.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glennville, 13 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Aug — fullest in Jun, leanest in Dec.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs2053004968121,2221,6121,389916435300217148

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Kern R NR Democrat Springs(river Only) CA, 2 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Elegant Clarkia14 obs
  • Western Fence Lizard11 obs
  • California buckeye10 obs
  • interior live oak9 obs
  • Fiesta Flower7 obs
  • mustang clover7 obs
  • blue dicks6 obs
  • Purple Chinese Houses5 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/9421140982

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