Editing Arvin, California (section)

==History==
Property sales of lots in present-day Arvin began in 1906. The Arvin Post Office was established in 1914 and the community incorporated as a city in 1960.<ref name=CGN /> The city was named after Arvin Richardson, who was the son of one of the original settling families from [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]]. Birdie Heard petitioned for the addition of the post office in 1914 and submitted proposed names, including Bear Mountain, Walnut, and Arvin.  Officials in Washington, D.C., chose Arvin as it was the only proposed name which was not already in use in California. Birdie was the city's first postmaster. She initially set up the post office in her living room, but it was later moved to the general store owned by the Staples family. The in-store post office was also the area's first informal library until an official branch of the [[Kern County Library]] system was established in 1927.

Pedro Subia, a Mexican striker in the [[California agricultural strikes of 1933]], was murdered at a strike in Arvin.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Acuña|first=Rodolfo|title=Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laborers, 1600--1933|publisher=University of Arizona Press|year=2007|isbn=9780816526369|pages=258}}</ref>

The [[Mountain View Oil Field]], which underlies the town and much of the surrounding area, was discovered in 1933 and developed extensively in the 1930s. Many oil wells still surround the town; some are slant-drilled to reach formations directly underneath inhabited areas.<ref name="Matthews">John F. Matthews, Jr.  ''Arvin and Vaccaro Areas of Mountain View Oil Field: California Division of Oil and Gas, Summary of Operations''.  1961. Vol. 47 No. 1. 5-6</ref>

In the 1930s and 1940s the area east of Arvin became popular for recreational gliding and soaring, and the hillsides of the Tejon Ranch were used annually for a Western Soaring Championship in the spring. These significant events were later memorialized as a [[National Landmark of Soaring]] by the National Soaring Museum in 2000.

The ''Arvin Tiller'' started publication in 1939 and [[Arvin High School]] was built in 1949. The city was nearly destroyed on July 21, 1952, during the M7.3 [[1952 Kern County earthquake|Kern County earthquake]] (a rupture of the [[White Wolf Fault]]). Arvin suffered further damage on December 20, 1977, when a [[dust storm]] hit the area.

The Arvin Migratory Labor Camp was the first federally operated farm labor camp opened by the [[Farm Security Administration]] in 1937, one of many [[New Deal]] programs created during the presidency of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] to respond to the [[Great Depression]]. This agricultural camp was considered a model, and was built by the [[Resettlement Administration]].<ref>{{Cite web
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[[File:Arvin Kern County, California. Photograph made from the entrance of the Arvin Farm Labor Camp (F.S.A . . . - NARA - 521768.jpg|thumb|right|Entrance of the Arvin Farm Labor Camp, 1940]]