Fort Washington California Map

About Fort Washington, California

Fort Washington is a locality in Fresno County, California, United States. It is a small community with a population of 255. The population density is 794.0 people per km². Fort Washington is located at 36.8793°N, 119.7613°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 93720.

Fort Washington occupies a quiet expanse of the San Joaquin Valley where the horizon stretches flat and wide, defined by the persistent, golden clarity of the inland sun. It lies 4.9 miles northwest of Clovis, CA (from Clovis, CA: bearing 319°T), and is situated 9.1 miles north of Fresno. The landscape here is characterized by an open, agrarian rhythm, interrupted only by the deliberate lines of the Enterprise Canal, which draws its life-giving moisture through the earth a single mile away. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Sierra Nevada rises like a jagged promise against the sky, while the local terrain remains dominated by scorched, sun-bleached grasses and the occasional hard-knuckled oak. The atmosphere carries a dry, heavy warmth that settles over the fields in the late afternoon, turning the dust of the valley floor into a fine, glowing powder that catches the light as the day begins to wane.

Fort Washington persists as a place of quiet transition, where the legacy of the land’s agricultural roots lingers in the steady, methodical pace of the people who reside here. The proximity of Liberty Elementary School anchors the local social geography, serving as a landmark for the families who navigate the daily flow of work and school amidst the surrounding orchards and open tracts. While the San Joaquin Experimental Range lies fifteen miles distant, providing a sense of wilder, protected scrubland to the north, the immediate economic pulse of Fort Washington remains tied to the deliberate management of the soil and the quiet infrastructure of the valley. Those seeking the wider waters of Millerton Lake find themselves just a short journey away, yet the character of the locality is defined more by its own stillness and the way the shadows lengthen across the flat, unhurried plains as evening arrives.

About This Fort Washington Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fort Washington, California. Coordinates: 36.8793, -119.7613. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Fort Washington includes the ZIP code (93720), telephone area code (760), county seat of Fresno County (Fresno), and school district assignment (Clovis Unified School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.