Piedra (

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for "Stone") is an

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Fresno County Fresno County (), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. The county seat is Fresno, the fifth-most populous city in Cali ...

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. It is located on the south bank of the Kings River east of

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, at an elevation of 538 feet (164 m).

History

In 1911, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad built a branch line to a nearby quarry and bestowed the name "Piedra", Spanish for "rock" or "stone". The town was variously known as "Del Piedra" and "Delpiedra" before the name was standardized to Piedra. The Delpiedra post office operated from 1920 to 1943. The Piedra post office was established in 1949.

Geography

Pine Flat Dam Pine Flat Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Kings River in the Central Valley of Fresno County, California United States. Situated about east of Fresno, the dam is high and impounds Pine Flat Lake, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada jus ...

is located approximately 2.5 miles northeast of Piedra.

Climate

According to the

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system, Piedra has a

warm-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

, abbreviated "Csa" on climate maps.Climate Summary for Piedra, California
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References

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