Local historian Bonnie Ketterl Kane wrote that the mill was "supposedly" at the southeast end of the present community.

"[4] The community was established in 1925 by Harry McBain, who named it in 1926 for Frazier Mountain, on its southern flank.

[7] On October 11, 2023, a winning Powerball lottery ticket worth $1.75 billion was sold in Frazier Park.

[8] Frazier Park lies within Cuddy Canyon in the San Emigdio Mountains, within the Los Padres National Forest.

The Garlock Fault, California's second largest, intersects the San Andreas just east of town and heads northeast along the Tehachapi Mountains.

Almost a quarter of Frazier Park's 1,203 housing units (23%) were vacant when the census was taken in March 2000 — much higher than the national rate of 9%.

[citation needed] Property owners lived in about seven of every 10 occupied units, renters in the other three — nearly the same as the remainder of the nation.

On August 13, 2009, County Supervisor Ray Watson announced that he wanted to appoint Thomas Lauchlan as Town Mayor and an advisory council to assist him in the governance of the area, which includes Frazier Park, Lebec, Fort Tejon and Tejon Village, Pinon Pines, Lake of the Woods, and Pine Mountain Club.

A resolution to form the Mountain Communities Municipal Advisory Council and its bylaws would be brought to the Kern County Board of Supervisors for approval.

El Tejon Middle School in Lebec takes district students from the fifth through the eighth grade.

Homeschooling is important in Frazier Park and surrounding areas, according to a March 2008 report in the Mountain Enterprise, which added: Per capita, the Mountain Communities may have one of the highest rates of homeschooling in the state, far above the national average of 2% to 4%, Holly Van Houten... [a home-school parent of the area] said.

[14]Frazier Park hosts a branch of the Valley Oaks Community Charter School, headquartered in Bakersfield.

The charter school is designed to "provide opportunities, support, and accountability for parents in their homeschooling endeavors.

"[15] Kern Transit provides weekday service from the Flying J gas station via the Route 130 bus to Bakersfield.

The Black Six (1973), a blaxploitation biker film directed by Matt Cimber and featuring several NFL stars was made in the area.