Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Exeter, CA

Exeter is a small city in Tulare County, near the Sierra Nevada foothills on the State Route 198 corridor toward Sequoia National Park.

Long before the town existed, Yokuts people lived in the oak forest north of the present city, and Rocky Hill to the east preserves petroglyph caves.

The Exeter townsite was laid out in 1888 by the Pacific Improvement Company, a Southern Pacific subsidiary, on 240 acres bought from John Firebaugh.

Town promoter D.W. Parkhurst named Exeter after Exeter, England.

Exeter was incorporated on March 2, 1911.

George Frost planted the area's first citrus in 1896, and oranges came to dominate the local economy - the basis for Exeter's motto, "Citrus Capital of the World."

The Gill Cattle Company, founded in Exeter in the late 1800s, was once the largest cattle business in the United States.

Damming the Kaweah River valley in the 1930s secured the irrigation water that sustains the groves around Exeter.

Downtown Exeter doubles as an outdoor art gallery, with 31 professional murals painted on the exterior walls of its buildings.

The 2020 Census counted 10,321 residents in Exeter, essentially unchanged from 10,334 in 2010.