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Porterville, CA -- U.S. city in California
Population (2000): 39615
Housing Units (2000): 12691
Land area (2000): 14.006147 sq. miles (36.275752 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.066651 sq. miles (0.172626 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.072798 sq. miles (36.448378 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58240
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 36.068550 N, 119.027536 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 93257
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Porterville may refer to:

  • Porterville, California
  • Porterville, Kansas
  • Porterville, Mississippi
  • Porterville, Texas
  • Porterville, Utah
  • Porterville, Western Cape in South Africa
  • "Porterville", a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival from their eponymous debut album.

Usage examples of "porterville".

The road took them past a traffic island, past the rickety Porterville Rec Center with its five lanes of candlepins, past a dead black Government Sales build­ing with a large MAY IS CONFIRM‑YOUR‑SEX MONTH sign in the window.

Lake Success hung over Porterville, billions of gallons of water poised to plunge down on the city.

To the north and south were cities of ten million each, and if only one in ten thousand of them lived long enough to reach Porterville and turn east .

I'll take everything I have, all the stuff I brought up from Porterville today, too, and go home, and I can damned well shoot anybody who comes onto my place.

These tracks'll take us as far as Porterville, and there won't be anyone trying to stop us.

What counted now was a magic trick: driving to Porterville on railroad tracks.

There were bigger ones in Porterville, of course, but they were under the dam and were flooded pretty badly.

We get back to Porterville I can show you lots of places where there's food.

The last I ever saw of Gil, my husband, he was off to Porterville for lunch with his lawyer.

We moved through the area in a loud-speaker-equipped police car asking Porterville people to move out of the area.

There is the testi­mony of a bar owner in Porterville: Sure, they rode their motorcy­cles into my place, even tore up the tile doing it.

He had lived in Maine all his life, in a little town called Porterville, just west of Freeport.

They were in Porterville now, and the crowd could barely see them through the dense fog, but they had been chanting his name rhythmically since Lewiston.

On the other side the Porterville Weaving Company, a textile mill reared its turrets into the fog like a filthy medieval castle.

Reports had come in that she had been seen--practically simultaneously--in Los Angeles, Eureka, Carson City, Denver, Portland, Tijuana, Ogden, San Jose, Vancouver, Porterville, and Hawaii.