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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. It covers about 115 square miles (300 km 2) and had a population of 542,107 as of ...
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 ...
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.
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 Historical Center, and can be ...
California State University, Fresno ( Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. [7] The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. [3] It offers 60 bachelor's degree program, 45 master's degree programs, 3 doctoral degree programs, 12 ...
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 ...
Fresno Yosemite International Airport ( IATA: FAT, ICAO: KFAT, FAA LID: FAT) is a joint military–public airport in Fresno, California, United States. It is the primary commercial airport for the San Joaquin Valley and three national parks: Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon. It offers scheduled passenger flights to several major airline hubs ...