VISALIA, a city of south-central California, U.S.A., 160 m. N. by E. of Los Angeles; the county seat of Tulare county. It has a municipal airport, and is served by the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and electric railways, and motor-coach lines. Pop. (1920) 5,753 (85% native white) ; in 1930 by the Federal census 7,263. It is the trading centre and shipping point for a rich farm ing, dairying and poultry-raising region, where fruits, vegetables and other agricultural products (including cotton) are grown in great variety. Thirty miles east is the Sequoia National park of
604 sq.m., containing over i,000,000 trees, of which are 10 ft. or more in diameter. Visalia was founded in 1852 and incor porated in