# Salt Spring

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{{about|the spring in California||Salt spring (disambiguation)}}
{{Use American English|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox spring
| name = Salt Spring
| other_name = {{native name|es|Aguaje La Brea}}
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| map_caption = location of Salt Spring in [California](/source/California)<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|id=252205|name=Salt Spring|accessdate=2011-12-06}}</ref>
| name_origin = Spanish
| location = [Kern County](/source/Kern_County%2C_California), [California](/source/California), [United States](/source/United_States)
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| embedded = [USGS](/source/USGS) topo map: Emigrant Hill 
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thumb|300px|Devils Den District Map
'''Salt Spring''', originally, '''Aguaje de la Brea''' (tar springs), a spring in the [Antelope Plain](/source/Antelope_Plain)<ref>{{GNIS|238639|Antelope Plain}}</ref> on the southeast end of [Pyramid Hills](/source/Pyramid_Hills), 0.6 miles south of [Emigrant Hill](/source/Emigrant_Hill)<ref>{{GNIS|242013|Emigrant Hill}}</ref> and 1.5 miles north of [Wagon Wheel Mountain](/source/Wagon_Wheel_Mountain)<ref>{{GNIS|1656652|Wagon Wheel Mountain}}</ref> in the [Pyramid Hills](/source/Pyramid_Hills) of [Kern County, California](/source/Kern_County%2C_California).<ref name="gnis" /> Its location appears on a 1914 USGS Topographic map of Lost Hills.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://cricket.csuchico.edu/scripts/PortWeb.dll?query&field1=Filename&op1=starts+with&value1=CA_640.JPG&template=mapsSID&catalog=topoMaps |title=USGS Topo: Lost Hills, Edition Date: 1914, Scale 1: 125000; from California Historic Topographic Map Collection -Meriam Library, California State College, Chico, accessed December 6, 2011 |access-date=December 7, 2011 |archive-date=December 19, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021219074315/http://cricket.csuchico.edu/scripts/PortWeb.dll?query |url-status=dead }}</ref>  Salt Spring is located just east of the Pyramid Hills and the [Devils Den Oil Field](/source/Devils_Den_Oil_Field),<ref>{{GNIS|277372|Devils Den Oil Field}}</ref> 3 miles southwest of [Devils Den](/source/Devils_Den%2C_California),<ref>{{GNIS|24145|Devils Den}}</ref><ref name="hoover">Mildred Brooke Hoover, '''Historic spots in California''', Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1990, p.124</ref> close by the south side of [Kecks Road](/source/Kecks_Road), 0.23 miles east of the [California Aqueduct](/source/California_Aqueduct), enclosed by a fence.

== History ==
''Aguaje de la Brea'' was one of the watering places on the route of [El Camino Viejo](/source/El_Camino_Viejo) in the [San Joaquin Valley](/source/San_Joaquin_Valley) between [Alamo Solo Spring](/source/Alamo_Solo_Spring) to the north and [Las Tinajas de Los Indios](/source/Las_Tinajas_de_Los_Indios) to the south.  At the Aguaje de la Brea, oil covered the water of the spring deceiving many thirsty wayfarers, who passed by thinking it only a pool of oil.<ref name="hoover" />

==References==
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Category:El Camino Viejo

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