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559. FIPS code. 06-27000 [ 10] GNIS feature IDs. 277606, 2410546. Website. www .fresno .gov. Fresno ( / ˈfrɛznoʊ / ⓘ; Spanish for ' Ash ') is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
History of California. 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. [2] 1870 - Weekly Expositor newspaper in publication.
916 [ 2] Added to NRHP. October 28, 1977. The Forestiere Underground Gardens in Fresno, California are a series of subterranean structures built by Baldassare Forestiere, an immigrant from Sicily, over a period of 40 years from 1906 to his death in 1946. The gardens are operated by members of the Forestiere family through the Forestiere ...
Bruce Bowen – former NBA player, San Antonio Spurs. Johnny Boyd – AAA and USAC Champ Car driver. Gregory "Pappy" Boyington – World War II ace, retired in Fresno. Ernest K. Bramblett – politician. Lee Brand – mayor of Fresno. John Brascia – actor and dancer. Tyler Bray – NFL quarterback.
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 ...