Ceres is a city in Stanislaus County, California. Take a look below for 20 awesome and incredible facts about Ceres, California, United States.

1. Its population was 49,302 at the 2020 U.S. Census, up from 45,417 at the 2010 U.S. Census.

2. It is part of the Modesto metropolitan statistical area.

3. Ceres is located in the San Joaquin Valley along State Route 99, south of Modesto and north of Turlock in Stanislaus County. Ceres is named after the Roman goddess of agriculture.

4. The newspaper in Ceres is called the Ceres Courier, which has been in publication since 1910.

5. The offices of the Ceres Courier were relocated from an address in downtown Ceres in 2012. It has since combined day-to-day operations with its sister paper, the Turlock Journal, in Turlock.

6. Jeff Benziger, was appointed editor in 1987. The city also has a Spanish-language paper.

7. Ceres hosts annual events at different times of the year. Spring brings the Ceres Street Faire on the first weekend in May.

8. Concert in the Park is a regular summer event. Halloween Fun Festival marks the fall, followed by the colorful, and much-attended, Christmas Tree Lane opening ceremony.

9. The first non-native families who inhabited Ceres were those of John Service, Cassius Warner, and Daniel Whitmore in 1867.

10. Daniel C. Whitmore is considered the first founding patriarch of Ceres.

11. He built his home in 1870, the Whitmore Mansion at 2928 5th Street.

12. That home still stands, fully restored by the city and the Ceres Historical Society.

13. In the early 1890s, outlaws Chris Evans and John Sontag robbed a Southern Pacific Railroad train at Ceres and others at several other area locations.

14. In the late 1930s, a labor camp was developed within the city of Ceres.

15. The history of Ceres is recounted in Arcadia Publishing Company’s Images of America series entitled, “Ceres, by Jeff Benziger. It was released on August 23, 2010.

16. In the California State Legislature, Ceres is in the 12th Senate District, represented by Democrat Anna Caballero, and in the 21st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Adam Gray.

17. In the United States House of Representatives, Ceres is in California’s 10th congressional district, represented by Democrat Josh Harder.

18. Ceres is home to the Bronco Wine Company, makers of Charles Shaw wine, also known as “Two-Buck Chuck”.

19. The City of Ceres maintains 11 parks for public use.

20. Altamont Corridor Express commuter rail train service is expected to be extended to a new station in Ceres by 2023.