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Fresno County (/ ˈfrɛznoʊ / ⓘ), 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. Fresno County comprises the Fresno, CA Metropolitan Statistical ...
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, [60] [61] which had a combined population of 922,516 at the 2000 census.
The Government of Fresno has a strong-mayor form of mayor–council government with a Mayor and seven City Council members. The City Manager is accountable to the mayor for overseeing the performance of 14 departments, including police, fire, transportation, water, solid waste, airports, parks and recreation, public works, finance, facilities ...
The county’s unemployment rate is above the state average at 9.5%, and 23.4% don’t have a high school diploma or GED. This leads to more people dependent on CalWORKs.
Clovis, California. Clovis is a city in Fresno County, California, United States. It was established in 1890 as a freight stop for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad by a group of Fresno businessmen and Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky. The railroad bought the land from two farmers and named the station after one of them, Clovis Cole.
Records show Fresno County has allocated a total of $40,000 towards the lawsuit against the state of California over a 2022 state law that removes the term “squaw” from California places by 2025.
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. It is also the 49th-largest CSA in ...
The Fresno chapter of the League of Women Voters recently chastised the county for poor management of the General Plan over the years, and asked the Board of Supervisors to delay a vote to approve ...