Pixley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States.

The investors Darwin C. Allen, and William B. Bradbury knew their project would succeed only if the town was connected to the mainline of the Southern Pacific.

The terms of sale for the land was 25% down, the rest to be carried back for three years by the owners at 8 percent interest.

Special railroad fares were offered to people in other areas of California and as far away as Boston in order to bring potential customers to see the new lands and the investment possibilities near Pixley.

Emma bought a quarter section of an adjoining piece of land where she farmed until they moved back to San Francisco.

[3] In the early 1890s, Chris Evans and John Sontag robbed a Southern Pacific Railroad train at Pixley.

[4] In 1933, Pixley was one of the towns in California involved in the San Joaquin cotton strike, a labor action by agricultural workers seeking higher wages.

Five thousand workers gathered in Tulare for the dead strikers' funerals, one of the largest agricultural demonstrations in California's history.

[5] The strike features in Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, coinciding with the arrival of the Joad family from Oklahoma.

[7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km2), all of it land.

There were 875 housing units at an average density of 280.9 per square mile (108.5/km2), of which 433 (54.3%) were owner-occupied, and 365 (45.7%) were occupied by renters.