About Cerro Coso Community College

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Cerro Coso Community College is a public community college in the Eastern Sierra region of Southern California. It was conventional in 1973 as a separate learned within the Kern Community College District. The scholastic offers conventional and online courses and two-year degrees. The speculative serves an area of nearly 18,000-square-miles. Cerro Coso has five instructional sites: Eastern Sierra Center Bishop and Mammoth Lakes, Indian Wells Valley, Kern River Valley, and South Kern. The scholastic also has an Incarcerated Student Education Program in two locations, the California City Correctional Facility and Tehachapi California Correctional Institution.

Ridgecrest is a city in Kern County, California, United States, along U.S. Route 395 in the Indian Wells Valley in northeastern Kern County, adjacent to the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS, or China Lake). It was incorporated as a city in 1963. The population was 27,616 at the 2010 census, up from 24,927 at the 2000 census.

Ridgecrest is with four mountain ranges; the Sierra Nevada on the west, the Cosos on the north, the Argus Range upon the east, and the El Paso Mountains upon the south. It is nearly 82 miles (132 km) from the Lancaster/Palmdale area, 110 miles (177 km) from Bakersfield, and 120 miles (193 km) from San Bernardino, the three nearest major urban centers. Private ventilate travel in and out of the city is provided through the Inyokern Airport. There are currently no scheduled public notice flights.

The city has been close the epicenter of major earthquakes, including one in 1995 and a series of quakes in July 2019.