Fresno is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
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27 Facts About Fresno
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Fresno is near the geographic center of California, approximately 220 miles north of Los Angeles, 170 miles south of the state capital, Sacramento, and 185 miles southeast of San Francisco.
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Fresno is the third-largest majority-Hispanic city in the United States; 50.
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Fictional residents of the town were portrayed in a 1986 comedic miniseries titled "Fresno", featuring Carol Burnett, Dabney Coleman, Teri Garr and Charles Grodin, along with numerous other celebrities.
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Fresno sits at the junction of Highways 41 and 99, the city is a major gateway for Yosemite visitors coming from Los Angeles.
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Fresno has three large public parks, two in the city limits and one in county land to the southwest.
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Roeding Park, near Downtown Fresno, is home to the Fresno Chaffee Zoo, and Rotary Storyland and Playland.
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Fresno was born with the establishment of the then Central Pacific Railroad Depot in 1872.
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Between the 1880s and World War II, Downtown Fresno flourished, filled with electric streetcars, and contained a number of "lavish" and "opulent" buildings.
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Fulton Street in Downtown Fresno was Fresno's main financial and commercial district before being converted into one of the nation's first pedestrian malls in 1964.
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In October 2017, the City of Fresno finished and opened Fulton Mall to traffic, becoming Fulton Street.
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Fresno native Audra McDonald performed in the leading roles of Evita and The Wiz at the theater while she was a high school student.
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Fresno bequeathed a major portion of his estate in 1968 to provide a regional park and bird sanctuary in Northeast Fresno.
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Fresno has a Mediterranean climate, with mild, wet winters and very long, hot, dry summers.
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Fresno meteorology was selected in a national U S Environmental Protection Agency study for analysis of equilibrium temperature for use of ten-year meteorological data to represent a warm, dry western United States locale.
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Fresno is home to numerous ethnic minority communities, such as the Armenian and Hmong communities.
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Fresno is the center of Metropolitan Fresno and serves as the regional hub for the San Joaquin Valley and the greater Central Valley region.
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The unincorporated area and rural cities surrounding Fresno remain predominantly tied to large-scale agricultural production.
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In 1958, Fresno was selected by Bank of America to first launch the BankAmericard credit card, which was later renamed Visa.
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Fresno has no teams in any of the five major sports leagues.
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In partnership with the City of Clovis, the City of Fresno opened the Community Media Access Collaborative in April 2012, a public, education and government access television station.
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Fresno is served by State Route 99, the main north–south freeway that connects the major population centers of California's Central Valley.
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Fresno is the largest U S city not directly linked to an Interstate highway.
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Fresno Area Express is the city's primary public transit system, which operates eighteen routes and Handy Ride, a paratransit operation.
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Sierra Sky Park Airport in Northwest Fresno is a privately owned airport, but is open to the public.
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The city of Fresno is planned to be served by the future California High-Speed Rail.
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