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Fresno has a total area of 116 square miles (300 km 2) with 98.96% land covering 114.79 square miles (297.3 km 2), and 1.04% water, 1.21 square miles (3.1 km 2). Fresno's location, very near the geographical center of California, places the city a comfortable distance from many of the major recreation areas and urban centers in the state.
Fresno State Normal School founded. [18] Sunnyside Country Club opens. 1913 – Commercial Club organized. [11] 1914 – Holy Trinity Church built. 1918 Sun-Maid raisin facility begins operating. Bank of Italy building constructed. 1919 – Fresno Historical Society [8] and Temple Beth Israel founded. 1921 – Fresno State College established ...
Fresno County (/ ˈ f r ɛ z n oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. [3] [5] The county seat is Fresno, [6] the fifth-most populous city in California.
The city of Clovis began as a freight stop along the San Joaquin Valley Railroad.Organized on January 15, 1890, by Fresno businessmen Thomas E. Hughes, Fulton Berry, Gilbert R. Osmun, H.D. Colson, John D. Gray, and William M. Williams, in partnership with Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky, the SJVRR began construction in Fresno on July 4, 1891, and reached the farmlands of Clovis M ...
The five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
The Arco AM/PM mini market at Brawley Avenue at Highway 180 in southwest Fresno, and the Keck Park Community Center on Monroe Street in Coalinga were found to have issues with their water supplies.
In southeast Fresno, at Indian market and restaurant Apni Mandi in a shopping center at Belmont and Peach avenues, an inspector found evidence of a vermin infestation during a March 7 visit.
California State University, Fresno was founded as the Fresno State Normal School in 1911 with Charles Lourie McLane as its first president. [19] It was one of about 180 "normal schools" founded by state governments to train teachers for the rapidly growing public common schools. Some closed but most steadily expanded their role and became ...