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The former Fresno Municipal Sanitary Landfill is located about 3 miles (4.8 km) from downtown Fresno, on 140 acres (57 ha) of land at the southwest corner of South West Avenue and West Jensen Avenue. The landfill is a basically rectangular mound, about 4,200 feet (1,300 m) long and 1,250 feet (380 m) wide.
Fresno has a total area of 116 square miles (300 km 2) with 98.96% land covering 114.79 square miles (297.3 km 2), and 1.04% water, 1.21 square miles (3.1 km 2). Fresno's location, very near the geographical center of California, places the city a comfortable distance from many of the major recreation areas and urban centers in the state.
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1876 – Fresno Morning Republican newspaper in publication. [7] 1877 – Fresno Volunteer Fire Department organized. [8] 1881 - William Helm bought the block bounded by Fresno, R, Merced and S Streets from Louis Einstein. [9] 1882 – St. John Church built. 1884 – Big Fresno Fair begins. [10] 1885 – Fresno incorporated. [11] 1889 – Meux ...
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.
Fresno Councilmember Miguel Arias smells cannabis flower while talking to store owner Lauren Carpenter, on Monday July 11, 2022, at Embarc, the first cannabis store to open in the city.
Map of Sierra Nevada gold country. The Gold Country (also known as Mother Lode Country) is a historic region in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California, that is primarily on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada.