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We would like to provide the residents of  Kingsburg  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Kingsburg Home page. The Kingsburg Home page provides as much information as possible on Kingsburg. Knowing Kingsburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kingsburg’s Home page, you will also find Kingsburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kingsburg has a population of 12116. 44.8% of Kingsburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.2 are female. 51.6% of Kingsburg is married and 64.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $272,871, and the average rent is $1,093. Household median income in Kingsburg is $73,281, and the individual median income is $32,884. Kingsburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.5%), Hispanic(47.7%), Other(8%), Asian(7.9%), Multiple(5.1%), Native(0.8%), Black(0.7%).


Kingsburg was established as a railroad town, its site set by the Central Pacific Railroad when it completed the Valley Line in 1873. In the early 1870s, Swedish natives settled 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 post office, later that year they changed the name to Kingsbury. During this time 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 on 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 after that it became Kingsburgh and in January 1894 took on its present spelling, "Kingsburg", which was finally established 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 keep up with the town's Swedish history most retail businesses are designed in Swedish architecture.


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