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Tulare County comprises the Visalia-Porterville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is located south of Fresno, spanning from the San Joaquin Valley east to the Sierra Nevada.
Visalia (/ vaɪˈseɪljə, vɪ -/ vy-SAYL-yə, vih-) [9][10] is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley, the 40th most populous in California, and 192nd in the United States. [11]
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- The Tule River Indian War of 1856
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During California's Spanish period, the San Joaquin Valley was considered a remote region of little value. Emigrants skirted the eastern foothills in the vicinity of Porterville as early as 1826. Swamps stretched out into the Valley floor lush with tall rushes or "tulare" as the Indigenous people called them. Gold discovered in 1848 brought a treme...
The Native Americans living in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains were relatively undisturbed by early Spanish colonization. During the late 1840s and into the 1850s, once gold was discovered in California, miners began encroaching on traditional lands. Although a treaty was signed with the local tribes in 1851, defining a proposed reserv...
Porterville is located at WikiMiniAtlas36°4′7″N 119°1′39″W / 36.06861°N 119.02750°W / 36.06861; -119.02750(36.068550, -119.027536). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 17.7 square miles (46 km2), of which, 17.6 square miles (46 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.41%) is water. Porte...
Municipal government
Porterville has operated as a charter citysince 1926, giving it the power to make and enforce within its boundaries any law which does not conflict with the State or Federal government (as opposed to a general law city which operates exclusively under State law). The city's charter has been changed by the voters several times since then. During the November 2008 Prop 8 election campaign, Porterville's City Council was the only City Council in all of California that passed a Resolution in favo...
State and federal representation
In the California State Senate, Porterville is in the 14th district. In the California State Assembly, it is in the 26th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Evan Low. In the United States House of Representatives, Porterville is in California's 23rd congressional district, represented by Republican Jay Obernolte
The United States Postal Service operates the Main Post Office at 65 W. Mill Street, the Town & Country Post Office at 1316 W. Olive Avenue, the Doyle Colony Post Office at 1391 E. Springville Avenue, and the Poplar Post Office at 14653 Road 192. The Main Post Office is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
Largest employers
According to the city's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,the top employers in the city are:
The sheriff in Big Top Pee-wee(1988) received a report from Porterville about a windstorm approaching Pee-wee Herman's local town.It received the All-America City Awardin 1994.In the science fiction novel The Santaroga Barrier(1968) Porterville is the nearest "normal town" to the fictional Santaroga situated in a valley 25 miles to the east of Porterville.In the science fiction novel Lucifer's Hammer (1977), this city is destroyed by the collapse of the dam at Lake Success.Brant Brown - Fresno State and Major League Baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Florida Marlins)Tex Clevenger - Fresno State and Major League Baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels, and New York Yankees)Highways and freeways
California State Route 65, known as the All-American City Highway or Porterville Freeway, is a major north–south freeway and expressway that heads north to Lindsay and south to Bakersfield. California State Route 190 is a major east–west highway in Porterville that heads west to California State Route 99 in Tipton and east bypassing East Porterville to Springville.
Major highways
1. State Route 65 2. State Route 190
County highways
1. (CR J15) – Porterville 2. (CR J26) – Porterville 3. (CR J27) – Porterville 4. (CR J28) – Porterville 5. (CR J29) – Porterville 6. (CR J37) – Porterville 7. (CR J42) – East Porterville
In 2022, Visalia-Porterville, CA had a population of 473k people with a median age of 31.5 and a median household income of $64,474. Between 2021 and 2022 the population of Visalia-Porterville, CA grew from 470,999 to 473,446, a 0.52% increase and its median household income grew from $57,394 to $64,474, a 12.3% increase.
Founded in 1864, the city is centrally located in California's agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley and part of the Visalia-Porterville metropolitan area which has a population of nearly half a million.
Visalia, city, seat (1853) of Tulare county, south-central California, U.S. It lies on the Kaweah River delta in the San Joaquin Valley, 42 miles (68 km) southeast of Fresno.
Census data for Visalia, CA Metro Area (pop. 477,544), including age, race, sex, income, poverty, marital status, education and more.
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