1906History
== History ==
Property sales of lots in present-day Arvin began in 1906.
1914Government
The Arvin Post Office was established in 1914 and the community incorporated as a city in 1960.
1927Government
The in-store post office was also the area's first informal library until an official branch of the Kern County Library system was established in 1927.
1933Crime
Pedro Subia, a Mexican striker in the California agricultural strikes of 1933, was murdered at a strike in Arvin.
1937Architecture
The Arvin Migratory Labor Camp was the first federally operated farm labor camp opened by the Farm Security Administration in 1937, one of many New Deal programs created during ...
1939Education
The Arvin Tiller started publication in 1939 and Arvin High School was built in 1949.
1943Education
The land for the Haven Drive campus was acquired in 1943.
1952Disaster
The city was nearly destroyed on July 21, 1952, during the M7.3 Kern County earthquake (a rupture of the White Wolf Fault).
1977Disaster
Arvin suffered further damage on December 20, 1977, when a dust storm hit the area.
2000Culture
These significant events were later memorialized as a National Landmark of Soaring by the National Soaring Museum in 2000.
2004History
The city's level of ozone, smog's primary component, exceeded the EPA's acceptable limits on an average of 73 days per year between 2004 and 2006.
2007History
In 2007, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) listed Arvin as having the highest levels of smog of any community in the United States.
2008History
In January 2008, the city purchased six hybrid police vehicles with a grant by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District.
2011Civil Rights
In March 2011, 41.9 percent of Arvin's residents were out of work, the highest of any city in Kern County.
2018History
=== Cannabis ===
In 2018, voters in Arvin passed a measure to license and tax marijuana after the legalization of the sale and distribution of cannabis in California was legali...
2020History
The city issued its first license to a delivery service in June 2020.