Clovis, California Clovis, California City of Clovis Pollasky Avenue, Old Town Clovis Pollasky Avenue, Old Town Clovis Official seal of Clovis, California Location in Fresno County and the state of California Location in Fresno County and the state of California Clovis, California is positioned in the US Clovis, California - Clovis, California Clovis is a town/city in Fresno County, California, United States.
The 2014 populace was estimated to be 102,189. Clovis is positioned 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of downtown Fresno, at an altitude of 361 feet (110 m). 5.1 Clovis Unified School District The town/city of Clovis began as a freight stop along the San Joaquin Valley Railroad.
Williams, in partnership with Michigan barns speculator Marcus Pollasky, the SJVRR began assembly in Fresno on July 4, 1891, and reached the farmlands of Clovis Cole and George Owen by October of that year.
The Clovis station, after which the town was named, was positioned on the Owen side of the track.
The townsite, titled Clovis by Pollasky, was laid out on what was originally Owen's land.
The barns was instead of as far as the town of Hamptonville (now Friant) on the banks of the San Joaquin River, just 26 miles (42 km) from its point of origin in Fresno.
As lumber was rough-cut at the mill, it was loaded into the flume and propelled by water to a planing foundry east of the Clovis barns station.
Clovis's first postal service opened in 1895. An 1896 journal article describes the town as having a populace approaching 500 people.
Clovis was incorporated as a town/city in February 1912.
Fulton Street, was later titled Front Street, then Main Street, and is now Clovis Avenue.
The grounds are now occupied by Clark Intermediate School and the Clovis Rodeo Grounds.
Clovis has a long history as a town known for its slogan, "Clovis A Way of Life".
Since 1914, the Clovis Rodeo has been held on the last weekend in April, with a parade on Saturday morning, followed by the rodeo that afternoon and all day Sunday.
Also contributing to the "Clovis way of life" are a number of street festivals, including Big Hat Days, Clovis - Fest, and the weekly Friday Night Farmer's Market held between mid-May and mid-September every year.
The last surviving structure assembled by the barns is a depot now positioned near the site of the initial Clovis Station.
In 1999 it was moved to its present locale in the town's center, at the northeast corner of Clovis Avenue and Fourth Street, and was restored by the Clovis Big Dry Creek Historical Society with financing, labor, and materials donated by small-town businesses and contractors.
Older storefronts on Clovis Avenue, the chief street running through town, have been restored and new buildings have been designed with facades that resemble those found in the early 20th century.
Clovis, California According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 23.28 square miles (60.29 km2), all of it land.
Clovis is situated midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, bordering Fresno, in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley.
Lying at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, which includes Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks, Clovis has been known as "Gateway to the Sierras" since its incorporation in 1912.
The Clovis region has active and potentially active seismic fault zones. The altitude of Clovis is approximately 355 feet (108 m) above mean sea datum According to the Flood Hazard Boundary Map produced by the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development, part of Clovis is inside the 100-year flood zone, such as some of the region near the Clovis Towne Center.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Clovis had a populace of 95,631.
The ethnic makeup of Clovis was 67,758 (70.9%) White, 2,618 (2.7%) African American, 1,320 (1.4%) Native American, 10,233 (10.7%) Asian, 218 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 8,857 (9.3%) from other competitions, and 4,627 (4.8%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 95,243 citizens (99.6% of the population) lived in homeholds, 130 (0.1%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 258 (0.3%) were institutionalized.
There were 33,419 homeholds, out of which 13,718 (41.0%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 17,975 (53.8%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 4,554 (13.6%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 1,889 (5.7%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 26,851 citizens (28.1%) under the age of 18, 9,572 citizens (10.0%) aged 18 to 24, 25,542 citizens (26.7%) aged 25 to 44, 23,559 citizens (24.6%) aged 45 to 64, and 10,107 citizens (10.6%) who were 65 years of age or older.
60,767 citizens (63.5% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 34,476 citizens (36.1%) lived in rental housing units.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.7% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 30.4% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 9.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
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Buchanan High School, Clovis East High School, Clovis High School, Clovis West High School, Clovis North High School, Enterprise High School, Excel High School, Gateway High School Clovis Community College, San Joaquin College of Law Fresno County Public Library operates the Clovis Regional Library. Tyler Clutts, NFL fullback for the Chicago Bears presently FB with the Dallas Cowboys, attended Clovis High, class of '03 Zack Follett, former linebacker for the Detroit Lions attended Clovis High Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clovis, California.
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