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Madera County (), officially the County of Madera, is a
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at the geographic center of the
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of
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. As of the 2020 census, the population was 156,255. The
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is Madera. Madera County comprises the Madera, CA
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, which is included in the
Fresno Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, maki ...
-Madera, CA
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. It is located in the eastern
San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven ...
and the central
Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primar ...
. The southeasternmost part of
Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...
is located in the county's northeast.


History and etymology

Madera County was formed in 1893 from
Fresno County Fresno County (), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-most populous city in Cali ...
during a special election held in Fresno on May 16, 1893. Citizens residing in the area that was to become Madera County voted 1,179 to 358 for separation from Fresno County and the establishment of Madera County. Madera is the Spanish term for wood. The county derives its name from the town of Madera, named when the California Lumber Company built a
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to carry lumber to the Central Pacific
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there in 1876. The Madera County Sheriff's Department employed the first woman in California to die in the line of duty as a sworn law enforcement officer—Tulare native Lucille Helm (1914–1959). For 15 years, the Madera housewife and mother of four worked on call as a "matron" assisting with female transfers.


Geography

According to the
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, the county has a total area of , of which is land and , or 0.8%, is water. Madera County is part of the
Madera AVA The Madera AVA is an American Viticultural Area located in Fresno County and Madera County, in central California. Production With a total area of , of which are planted to wine grapes, this region in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley ...
wine region This list of wine-producing regions catalogues significant growing regions where vineyards are planted. Wine grapes mostly grow between the 30th and the 50th degree of latitude, in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres. Grapes will sometimes ...
.


National protected areas

* Devils Postpile National Monument *
Inyo National Forest Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest po ...
(part) *
Sierra National Forest Sierra National Forest is a U.S. national forest located on the western slope of central Sierra Nevada in Central California and bounded on the northwest by Yosemite National Park and the south by Kings Canyon National Park. The forest is know ...
(part) *
Yosemite National Park Yosemite National Park ( ) is an American national park in California, surrounded on the southeast by Sierra National Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an ...
(part)


Demographics


2020 census

''Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos can be of any race.''


2011


Places by population, race, and income


2010

The
2010 United States Census The United States census of 2010 was the twenty-third United States national census. National Census Day, the reference day used for the census, was April 1, 2010. The census was taken via mail-in citizen self-reporting, with enumerators serving ...
reported that Madera County had a population of 150,865. The racial makeup of Madera County was 94,456 (62.6%)
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, 5,629 (3.7%)
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, 4,136 (2.7%) Native American, 2,802 (1.9%) Asian, 162 (0.1%)
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, 37,380 (24.8%) from
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, and 6,300 (4.2%) from two or more races.
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or Latino of any race were 80,992 persons (53.7%).


2000

As of the
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of 2000, there were 123,109 people in the county, organized into 36,155 households, and 28,598 families. The
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was 58 people per square mile (22/km2). There were 40,387 housing units at an average density of 19 per square mile (7/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 62.2%
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, 4.1%
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or
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, 2.6% Native American, 1.3% Asian, 0.2%
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, 24.4% from
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, and 5.2% from two or more races. 44.3% of the population were
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or Latino of any race. 8.0% were of
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, 5.9%
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, 5.4%
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and 5.3% Irish ancestry according to
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. 63.6% spoke
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and 33.7%
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as their first language. There were 36,155 households, out of which 40.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% were married couples living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.9% were non-families. 16.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.18 and the average family size was 3.52. In the county, the population was spread out, with 29.6% under the age of 18, 9.9% from 18 to 24, 29.1% from 25 to 44, 20.4% from 45 to 64, and 11.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 91.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.0 males. The median income for a household in the county was $36,286, and the median income for a family was $39,226. Males had a median income of $33,658 versus $24,415 for females. The
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for the county was $14,682. 21.4% of the population and 15.9% of families were below the
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. Out of the total population, 28.6% of those under the age of 18 and 9.0% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.


Economy

In the 1990s
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farmworkers were a large presence in the southern part of the state, and were beginning to filter northwards here along with other Mexican indigenous agricultural laborers to work in the County's farms.


Education

Madera County is mostly covered by the State Center Community College District centered on Fresno City College in
Fresno Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, maki ...
. Other districts with territory within Madera County also include the
West Hills Community College District West Hills Community College District (WHC) is a public community college district in California serving students in the San Joaquin Valley. Colleges in the district include West Hills College Coalinga and West Hills College Lemoore. The o ...
and the
Merced Community College District Merced College is a public community college in Merced, California. History In 1961, the Merced High and Le Grand High School Districts petitioned the State Board of Education for permission to set an election to approve the establishment of a ...
. School districts include: Unified: * Chawanakee Unified School District * Firebaugh-Las Deltas Unified School District *
Golden Valley Unified School District Golden Valley Unified School District is a public school district in Madera County, California, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primari ...
* Madera Unified School District * Yosemite Unified School District - Includes some sections zoned for K-12 and some for grades 9-12 only Secondary: *
Chowchilla Union High School District Chowchilla Union High School District (CUHSD) is a school district headquartered in Chowchilla, California. It operates Chowchilla Union High School and the continuation school Gateway. Its feeder elementary districts are Alview-Dairyland Union Sc ...
Elementary: *
Alview-Dairyland Union Elementary School District Alview-Dairyland Union School District is a school district headquartered in the campus of Dairyland Elementary School, located in Dairyland, Madera County, California, Dairyland, an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Madera County, ...
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Chowchilla Elementary School District Chowchilla Elementary School District is a public school district based in Madera County, California Madera County (), officially the County of Madera, is a county at the geographic center of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 cen ...
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Raymond-Knowles Union Elementary School District Raymond-Knowles Union Elementary School District is a public school district in Madera County, California, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a count ...


Government, policing, and politics


Government

The Government of Madera County is mandated by the California Constitution to have a five-member Board of Supervisors elected to staggered four-year terms. The Board of Supervisors: District 1, Brett Frazier; District 2, David Rogers; District 3, Robert Poythress; District 4, Leticia Gonzalez; District 5, Tom Wheeler; and County Administrator, Jay Varney; and staff provide for voter registration and elections, law enforcement, jails, vital records, property records, tax collection, public health, roads, and social services for the entire county. It is the local government for all unincorporated areas. Other elected offices include the Sheriff, Tyson Pogue; District Attorney, Sally Orme Moreno; Assessor, Brian Glover (acting); Auditor-Controller, David Richstone; Treasurer-Tax Collector, Tracy Kennedy; and Clerk/Registrar of Voters-Recorder, Rebecca Martinez.


Policing


Madera County Sheriff's Office

The Sheriff's Office and staff provide court protection, jail administration, and coroner service for all of Madera County with its total population of approximately 156,000 residents. The Sheriff provides police patrol and detective services to the unincorporated areas of the county, which contain approximately 70,000 residents, or 45% of Madera County's total population. The Sheriff's main station and offices are in the City of Madera. There are two Sheriff's substations: Oakhurst, population 3,000, and The Madera Ranchos, population 12,000, both on Highway 41 to Yosemite National Park in the Sierras.


Municipal police departments

The municipal police departments within Madera County are Madera, the county seat, population 62,000, and Chowchilla, population 19,600.


Politics


Voter registration


Cities by population and voter registration


Overview

Madera is a strongly Republican county in presidential and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win a majority in the county was
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in
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. Madera is split between the 4th and 16th congressional districts, represented by and , respectively. With respect to the
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, the county is in . In the
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, Madera is split between , and . On November 4, 2008, Madera County voted 73.4% for Proposition 8, which amended the California Constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. The county is one of three counties in California to establish a separate department to deal with
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, pursuant to California Government Code §23013, the
Madera County Department of Corrections Madera is the Spanish word for lumber. It may also refer to: Places Americas * Madera County, California, in the United States ** Madera, California, the county seat of Madera County ** Madera Peak, a mountain in Madera County ** Madera Ranchos ...
, along with Napa County and
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. The officers receive their powers under 831 and 831.5 of the California Penal Code.


Crime

The following table includes the number of incidents reported and the rate per 1,000 persons for each type of offense.


Cities by population and crime rates


Attractions

The Chowchilla/Madera County Fairgrounds hosts the Chowchilla Junior Fair, founded in 1946, and the Chowchilla Western Stampede. It also houses the Chowchilla Speedway, a 1/3 mile dirt track, and the Associated Feed Pavilion, a covered arena. The venue hosts numerous horse events and auctions, a Spring Festival barbecue, and other public and private events.


Transportation


Major highways

* State Route 41 * State Route 49 * State Route 99 * State Route 145 * State Route 152 * State Route 233


Other roads

The eastern side of Madera County, which includes
Devil's Postpile National Monument Devils Postpile National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located near Mammoth Mountain in Eastern California. The monument protects Devils Postpile, an unusual rock formation of columnar basalt, “all closely and perfectly fitted together ...
and part of Minaret Summit, is unconnected to the rest of Madera County by road. This only road into this area is Minaret Summit Road which becomes State Route 203 at the
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border, connecting this area to
Mammoth Lakes Mammoth Lakes is a town in Mono County, California, and is the county's only incorporated community. It is located immediately to the east of Mammoth Mountain, at an elevation of . As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 7,191, r ...
. Red's Meadow Road is a further extension of this route. The gap between Minaret Road (not to be confused with Minaret Summit Road), which runs northeast into the Sierras from North Fork, and the end of the Red's Meadow Road is less than 10 miles, and plans for a highway (or tunnel) connecting the
Eastern Sierra The Eastern Sierra is a region in California comprising the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, which includes Mono and Inyo Counties. The main thoroughfare is U.S. Route 395, which passes through Bridgeport, Lee Vining, Bishop, Big Pine, In ...
and the
San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven ...
via Minaret Summit had often been discussed. An area southwest of Minaret Summit was not included in the Wilderness Act of 1964 in order to leave a corridor for this possibility. During his time as
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,
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made a
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trip into the area. Afterward he supported
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' efforts to prevent this highway. Reagan continued his efforts after being elected
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in 1980, and the area was eventually designated
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by the California Wilderness Act of 1984.


Public transportation

*
Madera County Connection Madera County Connection (MCC) is the primary bus agency providing intercity services within Madera County, California. It is operated by the County Department of Public Works and offers four fixed routes connecting the cities of Chowchilla and M ...
provides service between the cities of Madera and Chowchilla. Routes also run to eastern Madera County. A connection to Fresno can be made at Valley Children's Hospital near the county line. * The cities of Madera and Chowchilla also have their own local, intracity transit services named
Madera Metro Madera Metro, formerly Madera Area Express (MAX) is the primary bus agency providing intracity services within Madera, California. It is operated by the City of Madera and offers three fixed routes and dial-a-ride point-to-point services. Riders ...
and
Chowchilla Area Transit Chowchilla is a city in Madera County, California, United States. The city's population was 19,039 at the 2020 census. Chowchilla is located northwest of Madera, at an elevation of . The city is the location of two prisons: Central Califor ...
, respectively. *
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buses and
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trains stop in Madera.


Airports

*
Madera Municipal Airport Madera Municipal Airport is northwest of Madera, in Madera County, California. The FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 categorized it as a general aviation facility.Chowchilla Airport are general aviation airports.


Communities


Cities

*
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* Madera (county seat)


Census-designated places

* Ahwahnee * Bass Lake * Bonadelle Ranchos * Coarsegold * Fairmead * La Vina * Madera Acres * Madera Ranchos * Nipinnawasee * North Fork * Oakhurst * Parksdale * Parkwood * Rolling Hills * Yosemite Lakes


Unincorporated communities

* Knowles * O'Neals * Raymond * Ripperdan *
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Population ranking

The population ranking of the following table is based on the 2010 census of Madera County.2010 Census
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See also

*
Sierra National Forest Sierra National Forest is a U.S. national forest located on the western slope of central Sierra Nevada in Central California and bounded on the northwest by Yosemite National Park and the south by Kings Canyon National Park. The forest is know ...
* Nelder Grove *
Fresno Dome Fresno Dome is a dominant granite dome rising in isolation above the forest of Soquel Meadow in the Sierra National Forest in Madera County, California. The dome as known to the Mono Indians as "the greeting place" ("wah-me-yelo"). John Muir enco ...
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List of museums in the San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley is the area of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton. This is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizati ...
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List of school districts in Madera County, California This is a list of school districts in California. California school districts are of several varieties, usually a Unified district, which includes all of the Elementary and High Schools in the same geographic area; Elementary school districts, w ...
* Madera Community Hospital * National Register of Historic Places listings in Madera County, California * USS ''Madera County'' (LST-905)


Notes


References


External links

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Madera County GenWeb - Genealogy


€”Transcription of 1933 document on the county's history
Oakhurst Area Chamber of Commerce

Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau
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Madera Tribune
', newspaper for the western half of the county founded March 31, 1892
Superior Court of Madera County

Madera County Library

Madera Community Hospital

Madera Values Quarterly Magazine
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