Fresno Map Art

Fresno's grid follows the cardinal directions with rigid precision across the San Joaquin Valley, a flat expanse broken only by the Kings River to the south and the dry bed of the San Joaquin River to the north. Downtown sits at the intersection of Tulare and Kern Streets, with the railroad corridor running north-south through the center, a legacy of the Southern Pacific line that built the city in 1872. The street pattern stretches unbroken in all directions, interrupted only by scattered parks and the occasional diagonal boulevard.

36.7378° N, 119.7871° W