Visalia ( vy-SAYL-yə, vih-) is a city in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San Joaquin Valley, the 42nd most populous in California, and 192nd in the United States. As the county chair of Tulare County, Visalia serves as the economic and governmental center to one of the most productive agricultural counties in the country.

Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks are located in the simple Sierra Nevada mountains, the highest mountain range within the contiguous United States. Visalia is 36 mi (58 km) west of Sequoia National Park, and 43 mi (69 km) south of Fresno.

The Place around Visalia was first fixed by the Yokuts and Mono Native American tribes hundreds of years ago. When the first Europeans arrived is unknown, but the first to make a written photograph album of the Place was Pedro Fages in 1722.

When California achieved statehood in 1850, Tulare County did not exist. The house that is now Tulare County was share of the vast County of Mariposa. In 1852, some pioneers contracted in the area, then called Four Creeks. The area got its declare from the many watershed creeks and rivers flowing from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. All the water resulted in a widespread swampy Place with a magnificent oak forest. The industrious charity of settlers petitioned the allow in legislature for county status, and upon July 10 of that same year, Tulare County became a reality.