What's Fresno a suburb of?

[MIKEETC]

Suburb implies a surbordinate 'position' in comparison to another nearby city within the context of being a center of commerce, culture, government, industry, etc. As Fresno is the center of these types of activities in the region, I'd say Fresno is the urban center and it is other surrounding communities that are the 'surburbs' of Fresno.

[jdavid93225]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Actually the question is: what are the suburbs of Fresno? Now, if the state continues to grow soon, like was mentioned, Fresno will be a burb of Bakersfield..

Nita

Fresno has a number of small, nearby communities that would fit the description of a suburb that was given by MIKEETC. Here are some of them:

Clovis
Herndon
Sanger
Kingsburg
Madera
Fowler
Kerman
Selma

[jdavid93225]

Originally Posted by Djames9

But still it could be way bigger if it wasn't for all the Agriculture Surronding it.

I could be, but, most likely, would actually be a whole lot smaller if it weren't for all the agriculture around it. Agriculture is one of the major economic factors that helped create most of the cities in the San Joaquin Valley. If it weren't for agriculture, Fresno probably would never have become what it is today.

[Djames9]

Originally Posted by jdavid93225

I could be, but, most likely, would actually be a whole lot smaller if it weren't for all the agriculture around it. Agriculture is one of the major economic factors that helped create most of the cities in the San Joaquin Valley. If it weren't for agriculture, Fresno probably would never have become what it is today.

Good point Fresno would be some small outpost town in the middle of the Semi-Desert technically but yeah lol Didn't there used to be some kind of a forest here in the Central valley like sometime about 600 years ago..

[NorthernCalifornia]

Fresno? where's that?

[FresnoFacts]

Originally Posted by Djames9

Good point Fresno would be some small outpost town in the middle of the Semi-Desert technically but yeah lol Didn't there used to be some kind of a forest here in the Central valley like sometime about 600 years ago..

Much of the east side of the San Joaquin Valley was covered in oak trees, wildflowers, and native grasses with several hundred bird and animal species calling it home until the arrival of non-native settlers in the 1850s and 1860s.

John Muir wrote of the San Joaquin Valley in 1868 "The valley of the San Joaquin is the floweriest piece of world I ever walked, one vast, level, even flower-bed, a sheet of flowers, a smooth sea, ruffled a little in the middle by the tree fringing of the river and of smaller cross-streams here and there, from the mountains."

There was an oak forest south of Fresno up until only about 100 years ago. One of the last remnants of it is the Kaweah Oaks preserve east of Visalia (about 45 miles south of Fresno).
SRT | Kaweah Oaks Preserve | Nature Preserves

[treedonkey]

Fresno is a suburb of Mexico

[rkb0305]

Originally Posted by Majin

Just out of curiosity what city is Fresno a suburb of?

nothing. Have you looked at a map?