Editing Inyokern, California (section)

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{{Infobox settlement
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|official_name            = Inyokern
|settlement_type          = [[Census-designated place]]
|nickname                 = Sunshine Capital of America
|image_skyline            = Inyokern.jpg
|image_caption            = Inyokern entrance sign
|image_map                = Kern_County_California_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Inyokern_Highlighted.svg
|map_caption              = Location in [[Kern County, California|Kern County]] and the state of [[California]]
| pushpin_map = USA California Southern#USA California#USA
| pushpin_label = Inyokern
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the United States
|subdivision_type         = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name         = {{USA}}
|subdivision_type1        = [[U.S. state|State]]
|subdivision_name1        = {{flag|California}}
|subdivision_type2        = [[List of counties in California|County]]
|subdivision_name2        = [[Kern County, California|Kern]]

|leader_title1            = [[California's 16th State Senate district|State senator]]
|leader_name1             = {{Representative|casd|16|fmt=sleader}}<ref name=swd>{{Cite web
 | url = http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html
 | title = Statewide Database
 | publisher = [[Regents of the University of California]]
 | access-date = April 6, 2015
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150201113744/http://statewidedatabase.org/gis/gis2011/index_2011.html
 | archive-date = February 1, 2015
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref>
|leader_title2            = [[California's 34th State Assembly district|Assemblymember]]
|leader_name2             = {{Representative|caad|34|fmt=sleader}}<ref name=swd/>
|leader_title3            = [[California's 23rd congressional district|U. S. rep.]]
|leader_name3             = {{Representative|cacd|23|fmt=usleader}}<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|23}}</ref>
|established_date         = 
<!-- Area------------------>
|unit_pref                = US
|area_footnotes           = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_06.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=October 30, 2021}}</ref>
|area_total_sq_mi         = 10.928
|area_land_sq_mi          = 10.927
|area_water_sq_mi         = 0.001
|area_total_km2           = 28.303
|area_land_km2            = 28.301
|area_water_km2           = 0.002
|area_water_percent       = 0.01

|elevation_ft             = 2434
|elevation_m              = 742
|population_as_of         = [[2020 United States census|April 1, 2020]]
|population_footnotes     = 
|population_total         = 988
|population_metro         = 
|population_density_sq_mi = auto
|timezone                 = [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific]]
|utc_offset               = -8
|coordinates              = {{coord|35|38|49|N|117|48|45|W|region:US-CA|display=inline,title}}
|elevation_footnotes      = <ref name=gnis>{{gnis|243875}}</ref>
|timezone_DST             = [[Pacific Daylight Time|PDT]]
|utc_offset_DST           = -7
|postal_code_type         = [[ZIP code]]
|postal_code              = 93527
|area_code_type           = [[North American Numbering Plan|Area codes]]
|area_code                = [[Area codes 442 and 760|442/760]]
|blank_name               = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS]] code
|blank_info               = {{FIPS|06|36658}}
|blank1_name              = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature IDs
|blank1_info              = {{GNIS 4|243875}}, {{GNIS 4|2408430}}
}}
'''Inyokern''' (formerly Siding 16 and Magnolia)<ref name=CGN /> is a [[census-designated place]] (CDP) in [[Kern County, California]], United States. Its name derives from its location near the border between [[Inyo County, California|Inyo]] and Kern Counties. Inyokern is located {{convert|8|mi|km|0}} west of [[Ridgecrest, California|Ridgecrest]],<ref name=CGN>{{California's Geographic Names|1050}}</ref> at an elevation of {{Convert|2434|feet|}}.<ref name=gnis /> It is on the western side of the [[Indian Wells Valley]]. The population was 988 in the 2020 census, down from 1,099 in the 2010 census. 
It was a railroad town established along the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]] railroad's Lone Pine Branch (now removed) and with WWII became site of the [[Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake]].

It is served by [[Inyokern Airport]].