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Clovis began in 1890 as a freight stop for the San Joaquin Valley Railroad, organized by a group of Fresno businessmen together with Michigan railroad speculator Marcus Pollasky.

The town was named after local wheat farmer Clovis M. Cole, who sold part of his farmland for a railroad station that took his name.

A lumber flume completed in 1894 carried Sierra Nevada timber down to a sawmill and lumberyard beside the Clovis station, driving the young town's first boom.

Clovis was officially incorporated as a city in February 1912.

Lying at the foot of the Sierra Nevada on the way to Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Sequoia National Parks, Clovis has been known as the "Gateway to the Sierras" since its incorporation in 1912.

The Clovis Rodeo has been held on the last weekend of April since 1914, and the historic Old Town Clovis district preserves the city's American frontier heritage.

The old lumber mill grounds, where the mill burned in 1914 and was never rebuilt, are now occupied by Clark Intermediate School and the Clovis Rodeo Grounds.

Several of Clovis's main streets are still named for the railroad's officers and principal investors, including Pollasky, Hughes, Osmun, and Baron.

The 2020 census counted 120,124 people in Clovis, which borders Fresno in the agriculturally rich San Joaquin Valley.

Clovis has around 42,000 households, with about 2.95 people living in each one on average.