Fellows is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California, United States.

Fellows is located 5 miles (8 km) west-northwest of Taft,[4] at an elevation of 1,316 feet (401 m).

[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), all of it land.

Fellows developed as an oil boomtown after the 1909 discovery of the Midway Gusher.

[4] The 1969 film The Lottery, based on the short story by Shirley Jackson, was shot at Fellows.

[6] It featured a small town much like thousands of others across America holding an apparently ordinary, mundane civic event that had a cold-blooded, horrifying ending to an unfortunate victim come from out-of-nowhere.

The film was ranked as one of the two bestselling educational films ever[7] and has been widely shown in educational settings across America as an indictment against unthinking adherence to tradition and general inhumanity.

There were 58 housing units at an average density of 88.1 per square mile (34.0/km2).

About 17.5% of families and 17.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 36.7% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.