Editing Wasco, California (section)

==Economy==
[[File:WascoOilFieldLocationMap.png|thumb|Wasco Oil Field location map]]
One of Wasco's major economic activities is agriculture, specifically the growing of [[rose bushes]]. In 2007 fifty-five percent of all roses grown in the United States were grown in or around Wasco.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ci.wasco.ca.us/Public_Documents/WascoCA_Chamber/festival |title=City of Wasco, CA - Festival of Roses |access-date=November 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070813160342/http://www.ci.wasco.ca.us/Public_Documents/WascoCA_Chamber/festival |archive-date=August 13, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Two of Wasco's major nurseries closed in 2010, and by 2011 Wasco was producing only approximately forty percent of US-grown roses.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Roses of Wasco |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/80595/the-roses-of-wasco |publisher=The Earth Observatory |access-date=3 February 2025 |date=10 July 2011}}</ref>

Oil and gas extraction is a significant part of the local economy. The Wasco Oil Field was discovered in April 1938, by [[Continental Oil Company]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Barnes|first1=Roy|title=Wasco Oil Field, in Geologic Formations and economic development of the Oil and Gas Fields of California|date=1943|publisher=State of California Dept. of Natural Resources Division of Mines, Bulletin 118|location=San Francisco|page=553}}</ref> The large [[Semitropic Oil Field]] is along State Route 46 about {{Convert|7|mile|}} west of town. Formerly a gas field, the region now mainly produces oil. Vintage Production, an arm of [[Occidental Petroleum]], is the primary operator as of 2010.