Di Giorgio is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in Kern County

Kern County, California

Spreading across the southern end of the California Central Valley, Kern County is the fifth-largest county by population in California. Its economy is heavily linked to agriculture and to petroleum extraction, and there is a strong aviation and space presence. Politically, it has generally...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. It is located 6.5 miles (10 km) south of Edison

Edison, California

Edison is an unincorporated community in Kern County, California. It is located east-southeast of Bakersfield, at an elevation of 568 feet ....

, at an elevation of 486 feet (148 m).

The first post office at Di Giorgio opened in 1944. The name honors Joseph Di Giorgio, agricultural entrepreneur and founder of DiGiorgio Corporation

DiGiorgio Corporation

DiGiorgio corporation was a fruit-growing corporation and eventual conglomerate in the 20th century. Once a vast company, owning much of California's central valley farm land, and multi-billion dollar corporation, a massive restructuring in the 1990s limited its breadth...

. Di Giorgio overlies the large Mountain View Oil Field

Mountain View Oil Field

The Mountain View Oil Field is a large, mature, but still-productive oil field in Kern County, California, in the United States, in the extreme southern part of the San Joaquin Valley southeast of Bakersfield. It underlies the town of Arvin, as well as some smaller agricultural communities...

, and gives its name to one of the field's many productive areas.