Kingsburg is a city in Fresno County, California. Kingsburg is located 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Selma at an elevation of 302 feet (92 m), on the banks of the Kings River. The city is 21 miles (34 km) from Fresno, and roughly 130 miles (210 km) from the California Central Coast and Sierra Nevada mountain range. The population was 11,382 at the 2010 census.

Kingsburg was usual as a railroad town, its site set by the Central Pacific Railroad similar to it completed the Valley Line in 1873. In the forward 1870s, Swedish natives established in a railroad town called “Kings River Switch”. Kingsburg started out as a flag stop on the Central Pacific Railroad called Kings River Switch. In 1874 Kingsburg was called Wheatville and had a declare office, later that year they misrepresented the state to Kingsbury. During this period period, Josiah Draper and Andrew Farley each owned a quarter section, about 160 acres (65 ha), Draper on the east side of the railroad tracks and Farley upon the west side of the tracks. So it was suggested that the east side be called Drapersville and the west side called Farleyville. Two years next it became Kingsburgh and in January 1894 took upon its present spelling, “Kingsburg”, which was finally standard as a town in 1908. By 1921, ninety-four percent of the population within a three-mile radius of Kingsburg was Swedish-American, giving the community the nickname of “Little Sweden”. To save up once the town’s Swedish chronicles most retail businesses are intended in Swedish architecture.

For much of the town’s history, the fields vis-а-vis Kingsburg were mostly grape vineyards which build mainly raisins and table grapes; in 2002 a large surplus of raisins and grapes drove the price for these commodities alongside to an all-time low. Subsequently, farmers were forced to replant the fields with stone fruit, or (particularly upon the west side of town) sell their estate to developers to encourage cope past the rising population. Kingsburg was the headquarters of Sun-Maid Growers of California, a producer of raisins and additional dried fruits. Fresno is the Corporate Headquarters. Kingsburg is home to the world’s largest bin of raisins, built by students at California State University, Fresno.

One of the notable landmarks in the community is the Kingsburg water tower, which is shaped taking into account an primordial Swedish coffee pot. The water tower was originally built in 1911 and was modified in 1985, inspired by a resident’s visit to the similarly festooned water tower in Stanton, Iowa; the Kingsburg coffee pot water tower is 122 ft (37 m) tall, lit at night, and visible from SR 99. The Kingsburg pot is slightly larger than the Stanton one, at 60,000 and 50,000 US gal (230,000 and 190,000 L), respectively; the Stanton pot was taken all along from its tower in 2015 and preserved, as it had been superseded by a larger water tower in the late 1990s.