Editing Porterville, California (section)

==In popular culture ==
*The sheriff in ''[[Big Top Pee-wee]]'' (1988) received a report from Porterville about a windstorm approaching Pee-wee Herman's local town.
*It received the [[All-America City Award]] in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncl.org/aac/past_winners/past_winners.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100707222907/http://www.ncl.org/aac/past_winners/past_winners.html|url-status=dead|title=All-America City: Past Winners|archive-date=July 7, 2010}}</ref>
*In the science fiction novel ''[[The Santaroga Barrier]]'' (1968) Porterville is the nearest "normal town" to the fictional Santaroga situated in a valley 25 miles to the east of Porterville.
*In the science fiction novel ''[[Lucifer's Hammer]]'' (1977), this city is destroyed by the collapse of the dam at [[Lake Success (California)|Lake Success]].
*Porterville is the home of the [[Persian Lime]].
*Porterville has three structures that are listed in the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP); The First Congregational Church, US Post Office- Porterville Main, The Zalud House Museum.
*[[John Fogerty]] wrote the song "Porterville" while he was in the army. It was later recorded by his band, the Golliwogs. While the song was not a hit for the Golliwogs, it propelled the changes that morphed that band into [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]].  "Porterville" was then included on CCR's debut album titled [[Creedence Clearwater Revival (album)|Creedence Clearwater Revival]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.songplaces.com/Porterville/Porterville_California/|title=Song: Porterville by Creedence Clearwater Revival|last=Suwak|first=Jeff|website=Songplaces.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702164814/http://www.songplaces.com/Porterville/Porterville_California/|archive-date=July 2, 2017|url-status=live|access-date=October 4, 2017}}</ref>
*On November 3, 2023, a fictional film directed by David M Parks about Porterville and was titled after the city was released on [[Amazon Prime]] and is about a former NYPD detective who moves to Porterville and becomes the new sheriff tasked with solving a string of murders causing a disturbance in the city. [[Taryn Manning]] and [[Caitlin O'Connor]] star in the film.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://thesungazette.com/article/news/2023/11/11/porterville-hits-amazon-prime/ | title='Porterville' hits Amazon Prime | date=November 11, 2023 }}</ref>