Weedpatch (formerly, Weed Patch at an elevation of 387 feet (118 m). As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 2,726. Weedpatch's located off State Route 184 (Weedpatch Highway) to the South-East of Bakersfield, just South of Lamont, and about South of State Route 58, the Bakersfield - Tehachapi Highway. Weedpatch's the location of the Arvin Federal Government Camp, known colloquially (and in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath) as "Weedpatch Camp" (External Link). This… (More on Weedpatch)