Editing Buttonwillow, California (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], Buttonwillow has an area of {{convert|6.9|sqmi|km2}}, all of it land. Buttonwillow is also locally known as the cotton country, due to the abundant planting of cotton in the vicinity.

Beginning about {{Convert|4|mile||spell=in}} south of town along Elk Hills Road, between Buttonwillow and [[Taft, California|Taft]], is the enormous [[Elk Hills Oil Field]], formerly the Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 1, which figured prominently in the [[Teapot Dome scandal]] that tarnished the administration of President [[Warren G. Harding]].  [[Occidental Petroleum]] bought the reserve from the [[U.S. Department of Energy]] in 1998, and is the current primary operator of the oil field.