Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California. Maricopa is located 6.5 miles (10 km) south-southeast of Taft, at an height above sea level of 883 feet (269 m). The population was 1,154 at the 2010 census, up from 1,111 at the 2000 census. The Carrizo Plain is located to the northwest, and the gigantic Midway-Sunset Oil Field, the third largest oil showground in the United States, is adjacent on the north and east.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km), all of it land. Maricopa is in the extreme southwestern corner of the San Joaquin Valley, on the first rise of home into the foothills of the Coast Ranges, with the Temblor Range, following the San Andreas Fault, trending northwest of town, and the San Emigdio Mountains to the southeast. The climate of the Place is hot and semi-arid, with summertime temperatures routinely over 100 °F (38 °C). Freezes occur in the winter, with the mean get older without freezes being approximately 275 days. About six inches of rain falls annually in Maricopa.

The first say office opened in 1901, and Maricopa incorporated in 1911. The city was named after the Maricopa Indians.

At the 2010 census Maricopa had a population of 1,154. The population density was 768.4 inhabitants per square mile (296.7/km). The racial makeup of Maricopa was 958 (83.0%) White, 1 (0.1%) African American, 27 (2.3%) Native American, 16 (1.4%) Asian, 2 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 112 (9.7%) from additional races, and 38 (3.3%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 232 people (20.1%).