Delano, California Delano, California City of Delano Main Street in downtown Delano Official seal of Delano, California Location of Delano, California Location of Delano, California Delano, California is positioned in the US Delano, California - Delano, California Delano (/d le no / d -lay-noh) is a town/city in Kern County, California, United States.
Delano is positioned 31 miles (50 km) north-northwest of Bakersfield at an altitude of 315 feet (96 m). The populace was 62,088 in 2016, up from 38,824 in 2000.
Agriculture is Delano's primary industry.
The region is especially well known as a center for the burgeoning of table grapes. Delano is also home to two California state prisons, North Kern State Prison and Kern Valley State Prison.
The Voice of America once directed its largest, most powerful shortwave broadcast facility outside Delano at 35 45 15 N 119 17 7 W.
Delano's two school districts presently operate eight elementary schools, three middle schools, three elected high schools and two alternative high schools.
The town/city has its own police department and contracts with the Kern County Fire Department for fire services, EMS services are privately provided by small-town company, Delano Ambulance Service.
Delano was established on July 14, 1869 as a barns town, not because the barns passed through the town but because the barns coming down from San Francisco and parts north terminated at Delano.
The first postal service opened in 1874. Delano incorporated in 1913. With Delano the end of the barns to the south, it became the command posts for literally hundreds of workmen who were building the barns into town, and who, eventually, the following year assembled the barns into Bakersfield.
Delano became the northern end for the passenger stages that ran south to Bakersfield and Los Angeles.
The fare from Bakersfield to Delano was $7.00 a trip.
Cesar Chavez at a United Farmworkers rally in Delano, 1974 Delano was a primary hub of farmworker organization accomplishments and Chicano boss politics.
Filipino immigrants Philip Vera Cruz and Larry Dulay Itliong were instrumental in shaping the direction of farm worker boss in the 1950s. On September 8, 1965, Larry Itliong and other Filipino leaders led the dominantly Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) in a "walk off" from table grape farms, now known as the Delano grape strike.
Delano is also known as "The Town" because of the many suburbs folk that roam there.
Major farm employers in Delano include Wonderful Citrus, Columbine Vineyards, Munger Farms, Lucich Farms, and Hronis.
Other primary employers include Delano Regional Medical Center, Walmart, Vallarta Supermarkets, Delano Joint Union High School District, Delano Union Elementary School District, Sears, Kmart, and the North Kern-South Tulare Hospital District. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 14.4 square miles (37 km2); over 99% of which is land.
Delano, California Delano's climate is characteristic of the San Joaquin Valley.
Record temperatures range between 115 F (46 C) (2006) and 14 F ( 10 C) (1990). Delano is positioned inside a desert climatic zone, receiving 7.51 in (191 mm) of rainfall annually. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Delano had a populace of 53,041.
The ethnic makeup of Delano was 19,304 (36.4%) White, 4,191 (7.9%) African American, 501 (0.9%) Native American, 6,757 (12.7%) Asian, 30 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 20,307 (38.3%) from other competitions, and 1,951 (3.7%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 42,144 citizens (79.5% of the population) lived in homeholds, 178 (0.3%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 10,719 (20.2%) were institutionalized.
There were 10,260 homeholds, out of which 6,535 (63.7%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 5,968 (58.2%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 2,089 (20.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 894 (8.7%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 15,089 citizens (28.4%) under the age of 18, 7,813 citizens (14.7%) aged 18 to 24, 17,248 citizens (32.5%) aged 25 to 44, 9,644 citizens (18.2%) aged 45 to 64, and 3,247 citizens (6.1%) who were 65 years of age or older.
24,363 citizens (45.9% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 17,781 citizens (33.5%) lived in rental housing units.
There were 8,409 homeholds out of which 56.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 60.3% were married couples living together, 18.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 13.8% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 32.5% under the age of 18, 12.4% from 18 to 24, 32.7% from 25 to 44, 14.9% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 25.7% of families and 28.2% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 35.3% of those under age 18 and 20.7% of those age 65 or over.
The Forty Acres complex in Delano was made a National Landmark in 2008.
Delano is home to an active and substantial Filipino American community, and the Annual Philippine Weekend fair takes place in Delano every July. Delano maintains a sister town/city relationship with the town of Arida, Wakayama, Japan.
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