It is situated in the San Joaquin Valley near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, just to the east of Visalia, California.

The city helps support many events throughout the year, including the Memorial Day Parade in May, which is well attended and manages to draw around 4,000 visitors from the surrounding area.

In December a Christmas Tree Lighting event is held at the Old Methodist Church building.

In the Fly family history, which is preserved in a book written about their travels to California, there is talk about attending the Deep Creek School in the 1860s.

Until 1863, other residents living on the east side of the county traveled through Farmersville on the Visalia Road.

They rode their horse-drawn wagons to get their mail, purchase supplies and bring their goods to sell.

In 1866 two entrepreneurs, John Crowley and his Uncle Merrill Jasper opened a large general store in Farmersville.

They wanted to capture the sales of residents from the east side of the county, on their way to Visalia to get their mail.

The hotel was two stories and served meals to passengers during the horse changeover for the Overland Stage.

The fire also burned a couple of other businesses and buildings and scorched the Methodist Church.

It sat on the Southeast corner of Visalia Rd and Farmersville Blvd, where Rainbow's Drive In sits today.

Don Freeman began the petition and application process that lead to the city's incorporation on October 5, 1960.

Early on the City struggled to get proper water delivery and wastewater treatment.

The city residents in 1968 seriously discussed dis-incorporation led by store owner Tom Bray.Farmersville is located at 36°18′4″N 119°12′27″W / 36.30111°N 119.20750°W / 36.30111; -119.20750 (36.301169, -119.207603).

[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2), all of it land.

There were 2,726 housing units at an average density of 1,207.0 per square mile, of which 1,590 (61.3%) were owner-occupied, and 1,005 (38.7%) were occupied by renters.

Councilmember Gregorio Gomez is a Systems Administrator for the Tulare County Information and Communications Technology Department.

Councilmember Paul Boyer is a retired Development Program Director of Self-Help Enterprises.

[8] In the Tulare County Board of Supervisors, Farmersville is in the 1st district, represented by Larry Micari.

The first school mentioned in history writings was located near the Deep Creek Cemetery, it was made of logs and the years indicated were 1860's.

School Board Trustees are John Alvarez, Alice Lopez, Sabrina Gomez and Sijifredo Espinoza.

The building formerly serving as Farmersville Methodist Church was originally built in the 1870s in Goshen, California.

The Founders of the early Farmersville Methodist Church were Thomas J Brundage, a Mr. Sims and Rev.

Farmersville serves occasionally as a commuter town, many residents having to travel to nearby communities to seek employment.