Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Armona, CA

Armona is a small census-designated place in Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley, just 3.5 miles west-southwest of Hanford, whose motto is "Small and Proud."

The name Armona was first applied to a railroad station in the 1880s and moved to the present townsite on the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1891 - it was reportedly coined by transposing the first two letters of "Ramona."

Armona's post office opened in 1887, and its first school, the Giddings School, was built in 1880, with the district renamed for Armona in 1907.

Armona's population was 4,274 at the 2020 census, having grown steadily from 1,274 residents in 1950 as the surrounding farm country developed.

Armona has 1,241 households with one of the larger average household sizes in California at 3.44 people, and about 61% of its homes are owner-occupied.

Armona is a young, majority-Latino farmworker community - 74.3% of residents were Hispanic or Latino at the 2020 census, the median age was just 31.2, and over 30% of residents were under 18.

Armona's brick schoolhouse, built in the early 1920s, was replaced in 1953 after it failed to meet the earthquake-safety standards of California's Field Act, becoming today's Armona Elementary School.

Local children attend Armona Elementary School and Parkview Middle School in the Armona Union Elementary School District, and the community also has a K-12 Seventh-day Adventist school, Armona Union Academy.

State Route 198 crosses Armona, linking it east to Hanford, the Kings County seat, and west to Lemoore, while freight trains of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad still pass through town.

Armona's most famous native is Lyn Lary, a Major League Baseball shortstop who played twelve seasons for six teams, including the New York Yankees.