Page Contents for Lindsay, California

Statistics & Facts

Location

History & History-related items

City Attractions

Government

Historical Events

Chamber of Commerce.

Schools.

Miscellany

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Statistics & Facts

The California state capital is Sacramento.
The population of Lindsay is approximately 10,297 (2000), 11768 (2010).
The approximate number of families is 2,678 (1990), 3014 (2010).
The amount of land area in Lindsay is 6.096 sq. kilometers.
The amount of land area in Lindsay is 2.5 sq. miles.
The amount of surface water is 0 sq kilometers.
The distance from Lindsay to Washington DC is 2393 miles.
The distance to the California state capital is 207 miles. (as the crow flies)
Lindsay is positioned 36.20 degrees north of the equator and 119.08 degrees west of the prime meridian.
The Lindsay median home price is $ 50,000 to $ 175,000.
Lindsay average annual rainfall is 11.02 inches per year
The average low temperature is 46.7 degrees F.
The average high temperature is 79.9 degrees F.

Location

at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the San Joaquin Valley of Central California
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History & History Related Items

Here is a history page for Lindsay.

Julius Orton came to the west from Ohio and then Missouri. He served in the army in 1846 coming to the Placerville area as a guard for a pack train. When he didn't find gold there, he moved to the Soquel area. Finally, he and his family walked over 200 miles to homestead some land along the Tule River. Later, he took a second homestead next to the land of the Keeley brothers. He planted the first orange trees in this area on his land which established the area as "Central California's Citrus Center."

The town was laid out by Captain Arthur J. Hutchinson, who came here in 1889. He named it for his wife, Sadie Lindsay Patton Hutchinson.
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Attractions

Lindsay is a Main Street City as well as an All-American City
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Lindsay City Government

City of Lindsay
251 East Honolulu Street
Post Office Box 369
Lindsay, CA 93247
Phone 559.562.7103
Fax 559.562.7100

Lindsay Historical Events

1990 - December
In December 1990, the community was hard-hit by a rare freeze, followed by the loss of several major local employers. As temperatures plummeted for days into the teens and twenties for as long as 15 hours, oranges froze on the trees. The community's greatest industrial asset was destroyed overnight. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Lindsay's population was out of work.

Lindsay Chamber

Lindsay Chamber of Commerce
133 West Honolulu Street
Post Office Box 989
Lindsay, CA 93247
Fax 559.562.5219
Phone 559.562.4929
Email

Lindsay Organizations

Lindsay Chamber of Commerce
133 West Honolulu Street
Post Office Box 989
Lindsay, CA 93247
Fax 559.562.5219
Phone 559.562.4929
Email

Lindsay Schools

Lindsay Unified School District
519 E. Honolulu
Lindsay, CA 93247
Phone: 559 562-5111

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Lindsay High School
Grades 9 through 12
1701 E. Tulare Rd.
Lindsay, CA
Phone: 559 562-5911 Lindsay

Miscellany

The population of Lindsay was:
1990 - 8,338
2000 - 10,297