Stevinson is an

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and

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Merced County Merced County ( ), is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 281,202. The county seat is Merced. The county is named after ...

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. It is located west of

Merced Merced (; Spanish for "Mercy") is a city in, and the county seat of, Merced County, California, United States, in the San Joaquin Valley. As of the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 86,333, up from 78,958 in 2010. Incorporated on April 1 ...

at an elevation of . The population was 275 at the 2020 census, down from 313 at the 2010 census. The Stevinson post office opened in 1907. The name honors James J. Stevinson, who bought land nearby in 1852. The town is noted for its bullring, where Portuguese bullfighting is staged regularly. It is one of several bullrings maintained by the Portuguese-American community throughout California's Central Valley. The US Army built the

Howard Auxiliary Field Merced Army Air Field auxiliary fields were built to support pilot training at the Merced Army Air Field. In 1940 the US Army wanted to built near Merced, California a 30,000 per year basic pilot training base. The former city of Cuba, Merced ...

(1942-1944) to train

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pilots in Stevinson.

Geography

Stevinson is in northwestern Merced County, north of the intersection of State Routes 140 and

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. SR 140 leads east to Merced, the

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, and southwest to Gustine, while SR 165 leads north to

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and south to Los Banos. According to the

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, the Stevinson CDP covers an area of , all of it land.

Climate

This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above . According to the

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system, Stevinson has a

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, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps.

Demographics

The

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reported that Stevinson had a population of 313. The population density was . The racial makeup of Stevinson was 228 (72.8%)

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, 4 (1.3%)

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, 0 (0.0%) Native American, 0 (0.0%)

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, 0 (0.0%)

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, 73 (23.3%) from

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, and 8 (2.6%) from two or more races.

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of any race were 133 persons (42.5%). The Census reported that 313 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized. There were 92 households, out of which 42 (45.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 49 (53.3%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 5 (5.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 9 (9.8%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 11 (12.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 0 (0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 19 households (20.7%) were made up of individuals, and 2 (2.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.40. There were 63

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(68.5% of all households); the average family size was 4.11. The population was spread out, with 95 people (30.4%) under the age of 18, 37 people (11.8%) aged 18 to 24, 82 people (26.2%) aged 25 to 44, 73 people (23.3%) aged 45 to 64, and 26 people (8.3%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 28.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 118.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 124.7 males. There were 101 housing units at an average density of , of which 52 (56.5%) were owner-occupied, and 40 (43.5%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0%; the rental vacancy rate was 4.8%. 168 people (53.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 145 people (46.3%) lived in rental housing units.

References

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