It was located on the old site of Bend City, so named for the large bend in the Owens River. First named Independence for the nearby town and county seat: later it was named Citrus before being renamed Kearsarge. Aside from the station building there was a residence for the section boss and a bunkhouse for the workers. The typical C&C station building stood until 1955 when it was demolished.

On the SP narrow gauge, trains heading toward San Francisco were carded as Westbound (north on compass), while those headed away from San Francisco were Eastbound (south on map). It made little difference that there were no rails between Laws and Mina (after 1938), the Laws depot nameboard still showed the distance to San Francisco as 506.8 miles. At Kearsarge the distance was shown as 550.1 miles.