Fresno - Placenames, US Battleships, Television

36°44N 119°47W, pop (2000e) 427 700. Seat of Fresno Co, C California, USA; founded, 1872; city status, 1885; airfield; railway; university; centre of a wine-producing region; grapes, grain, cotton, cattle, agricultural machinery, food processing; often called the world's raisin centre.

Placenames

Colombia:

Fresno is a municipality in the Department of Tolima.

Spain:

Fresno is a ghost village in Nidáliga, in the municipality of Valle de Sedano, in the province of Burgos). Fresno de la Vega is a municipality in Ribera del Esla, in the province of León). Aldea del Fresno is a municipality in province of Madrid). Fresno el Viejo is a municipality in Tierra del Vino in the province of Valladolid).

United States of America:

The city of Fresno is the county seat of Fresno County, California, and has an airport called Fresno Air Terminal or Fresno Yosemite International Airport. Fresno is the location of the central branch of the Fresno County Public Library. The Fresno Scraper engine was designed in Fresno, which is located in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Fresno, Ohio. Fresno is also a town located in Fort Bend County, Texas.

US Battleships

USS Fresno (CL-121) was a cruiser of the United States Navy. USS Fresno (LST-1182) was an amphibious assault ship of the United States Navy (LST=Landing Ship Tank)

Television

Fresno was a 1986 mini series staring Carol Burnett and Dabney Coleman.