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Visalia was founded in 1852 by Nathaniel Vise, who named the new town after his family's ancestral hometown of Visalia, Kentucky.

The settlement was first known as Four Creeks, after the waterways flowing through the Kaweah River delta where it was built.

Visalia is the oldest continuously inhabited inland settlement between Stockton and Los Angeles.

Visalia became the seat of the newly created Tulare County within about a year of its founding and remains the county's governmental and economic center.

In 1858 Visalia became a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route running between St. Louis and San Francisco.

Visalia incorporated as a city on February 27, 1874.

The 2020 census counted 141,384 residents in Visalia, making it the fifth most populous city in the San Joaquin Valley.

Visalia has about 47,100 households, averaging about 3 people per household.

Visalia is nicknamed the 'Gateway to the Sequoias,' serving as the principal gateway city for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and their giant sequoia groves.

The town was founded in the middle of the largest valley oak woodland in California, and Visalia's Valley Oak Ordinance, adopted in 1971, still regulates the pruning and removal of its native valley oak trees.