The population of San Benito-Bitterwater was 805 at the 2020 United States census.
[2] The first non-Native settler in the Bitterwater area was Edward Calhoun Tully, who discovered a spring in the valley in 1861.
The descendants of Tully and his brother-in-law, Francisco Quintanar De Alvarez, lived in the valley for more than a century.
[3] The Bitterwater Valley was the site of some oil exploration in the 1950s.
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