Fellows is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States. Fellows is located 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Taft, at an elevation of 1316 feet (401 m). The population was 106 at the 2010 census, down from 153 at the 2000 census. Fellows is surrounded on all sides by the enormous Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the third-largest oil field in the United States, and the oil and gas industry accounts for much of the area’s economic activity.
Fellows is located at 35°10′43″N 119°32′28″W / 35.17861°N 119.54111°W / 35.17861; -119.54111.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km), all of it land.
The first post office at Fellows opened in 1910. The name Fellows honors Charles A. Fellows, a Sunset Western Railroad contractor.
Perhaps Fellows’ greatest claim to fame was as the location of a fictional event. The 1969 educational film The Lottery, based on the famous short story by Shirley Jackson, was shot at…
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