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Fresno is the larger principal city of the Fresno-Madera CSA, a Combined Statistical Area that includes the Fresno (Fresno County) and Madera (Madera County) metropolitan areas, [61] [62] which had a combined population of 922,516 at the 2000 census. [10] Fresno is home to numerous ethnic minority communities, such as the Armenian and Hmong ...
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 United States census , the population was 1,008,654.
Metropolitan Fresno, officially Fresno–Hanford–Corcoran, CA CSA, is a metropolitan area in the San Joaquin Valley, in the United States, consisting of Fresno and Madera counties. It is the third-largest metropolitan region in Northern California , behind the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Sacramento .
Save Mart Center at Fresno State is a multi-purpose arena, on the campus of California State University, Fresno (Fresno State), located in Fresno, California.An open house was held for the community on November 5, 2003, with the official ribbon cutting following on November 27, 2003.
1856 – Fresno County formed in 1856 with Millerton, a settlement along the San Joaquin River, as the county seat. [1]1865 – William Helm brings his wife and his sheep to the valley floor area south of Millerton.
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 Fresno Police Department (FPD) is the municipal police department for Fresno, California.Their headquarters is located at 2323 Mariposa Mall. [2] Mindy Casto is the current Chief of Police for the Fresno Police Department since June 13, 2024 [3] following a scandal of Former Chief Paco Balderrama who later resigned on June 25, 2024 [4]
The Big Fresno Fair, founded in 1884, is an annual fair held at the Fresno County Fairgrounds.The Big Fresno Fair is managed by the 21st District Agricultural Association, an entity of the California Department of Food and Agriculture Division of Fairs & Expositions.