Selma, California City of Selma Official seal of Selma, California Seal Coat of arms of Selma, California Location in Fresno County and the state of California Location in Fresno County and the state of California Selma, California is positioned in the US Selma, California - Selma, California Selma is a town/city in Fresno County, California.
Selma is positioned 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Fresno, at an altitude of 308 feet (94 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city covers an region of 5.136 square miles (13.30 km2), all of it land. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Selma had a populace of 23,219.
The ethnic makeup of Selma was 12,869 (55.4%) White, 284 (1.2%) African American, 479 (2.1%) Native American, 1,057 (4.6%) Asian, 9 (0.0%) Pacific Islander, 7,630 (32.9%) from other competitions, and 891 (3.8%) from two or more competitions.
The Enumeration reported that 23,054 citizens (99.3% of the population) lived in homeholds, 50 (0.2%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 115 (0.5%) were institutionalized.
There were 6,416 homeholds, out of which 3,411 (53.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 3,553 (55.4%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 1,158 (18.0%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 560 (8.7%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 7,442 citizens (32.1%) under the age of 18, 2,677 citizens (11.5%) aged 18 to 24, 6,321 citizens (27.2%) aged 25 to 44, 4,483 citizens (19.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,296 citizens (9.9%) who were 65 years of age or older.
13,229 citizens (57.0% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 9,825 citizens (42.3%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census of 2006, there were 23,194 citizens , 5,596 homeholds, and 4,538 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 43.90% White, 0.75% Black or African American, 1.56% Native American, 3.18% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 46.09% from other competitions, and 4.48% from two or more competitions.
There were 5,596 homeholds out of which 45.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.3% were married couples living together, 17.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 18.9% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 33.1% under the age of 18, 11.8% from 18 to 24, 28.6% from 25 to 44, 16.2% from 45 to 64, and 10.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 17.4% of families and 22.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 31.0% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
Selma owes its beginnings to farming and to the Southern Pacific Railroad, which began in the 1870s as a branch line of the Central Pacific Railroad.
In 1880, inhabitants of the non-urban improve that would turn into Selma established the Valley View School District.
They began auctioning lots and just three years later the town/city of Selma was formally incorporated.
A persistent small-town legend is that Selma was titled after Selma Gruenberg Lewis (ca.
Subsequent investigation indicates instead that the town was in fact titled for Selma Michelsen (1853 1910), wife of a barns employee who had submitted her name for inclusion on a list of candidate names prepared by his supervisor.
Along with Fowler to its immediate north and Kingsburg to its south, Selma was a barns stop where agricultural goods could be loaded for shipping.
What was once a handsome passenger terminal in the city's downtown became Selma's police station.
The foundry was powered by the C&K Canal, a cyclic irrigation channel that was known in Selma as the Mill Ditch.
Raisins produced inside eight miles of Selma, the town/city adopted the slogan "Raisin Capital of the World" in 1963.
Like many other American cities, Selma suffered a diminish in its old downtown in the late decades of the 20th century and into the 21st.
Several blocks to the west of the old road (now Whitson Street and Golden State Boulevard), the freeway bisects the earliest residentiary neighborhood in Selma.
The freeway also made Selma more attractive as a place to live for Fresno workers, who contributed to ever-faster residentiary expansion into the 21st century.
The Selma Unified School District has eight neighborhood elementary schools.
Students from all of these schools are channeled to Abraham Lincoln Middle School and continue on to Selma High School or two alternative high schools.
Selma High School fields a range of sports squads nicknamed The Bears.
Well-known citizens who have lived in and around Selma include 19th-century inventors Frank Dusy, Abijah Mc - Call and William Deidrick; the poets William Everson (Brother Antoninus, 1912 94) and Larry Levis (1946 96); William R.
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