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Midoil Road is an approximately 5-mile rural highway which traverses the oilfields of western Kern County.   This highway begins at A Street in Taft and extends northwest to Midway Road in Fellows.   Midoil Road was constructed as a frontage of the Sunset Railroad following the discovery of the Midway Gusher in 1909.  The roadway is named after Midoil siding which was once located between Taft and Fellows.  Midoil Road is designated as Kern County Mountain Road 272.   Part 1; the history of Midoil Road Midoil Road is named after the former Sunset Railroad siding of Midoil.  This rural highway corridor begins at the end of A Street and extends northwest through the Midway-Sunset Oil Field in the Temblor Range foothills to Midway Road in Fellows.  Midoil Road is designated as Kern County Mountain Road.  In 1901 Post Office Service would be established at the Sunset Oil Field town site of Maricopa.  Between 1901 and 1908 the ...

Jerseydale Road is an approximately six-mile-long rural highway in Mariposa County.  As presently configured Jerseydale Road begins at the intersection of Darrah Road/Triangle Road and terminates at the site of the Sweetwater Mine in Sierra National Forest.  Jerseydale Road was part of Hites Cove Road which had been commissioned in 1864.  The roadway traditionally served the Sweetwater Mining District and Skelton's Ranch.  By the 1880s a small mining community would develop and would come to be known as Jerseydale upon receiving Post Office service in 1889.  The Jerseydale Post Office would operate until 1930, and the Sweetwater Mining District would shutter later in the decade.  Part 1; the history of Jerseydale Road Jerseydale Road and the namesake community of Jerseydale are historically linked to the Sweetwater Mining District at the northern end of Clark's Valley.  The Sweetwater Mining District was placer mined beginning in the early 1850s in th...