Editing Yokuts Valley, California (section)

==History==
Present-day Yokuts Valley was originally the home of [[Yokuts]] and [[Mono people]]. In 1869, the Simpson Drake family became the first recorded non-Indigenous family to settle in the basin. An early reference to Yokuts Valley appears in an 1884 issue of an Idaho newspaper.<ref name="Bee George" />

The first post office opened in "Squaw Valley" in 1879.<ref name="CGN">{{California's Geographic Names|1109}}</ref> It was renamed Squawvalley in 1895<ref name=CGN /> before closing in 1918.<ref name=CGN /> It reopened in 1923, renamed back to Squaw Valley in 1932, and closed again in 1945<ref name=CGN /> in favor of the nearby [[Orange Cove, California|Orange Cove]] post office.<ref>{{cite news|title=PO Department Recognize Squaw Valley Prior Claim|work=[[Reedley Exponent]]|date=November 19, 1959|page=4|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110449399/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The "Squaw Valley" post office was established a third time in 1960.<ref name=CGN />

In the 1960s, the community moved east to its current location.<ref name="BGN QRL 446">{{cite journal|title=Change S__ Valley to Nuum Valley|journal=Quarterly Review List|publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names|location=Washington, D.C.|issue=446|date=January 24, 2022|pages=15–18|accessdate=October 8, 2022|url=https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/media/files/Review%20List%20448%20%283%29.pdf#page=31}}</ref> In 1994, the [[Fresno County Public Library]]'s Bear Mountain Branch Library relocated to the community from [[Dunlap, California|Dunlap]], where it had been since 1915.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bear Mountain Branch Library|publisher=Fresno County Public Library|accessdate=February 10, 2023|url=https://www.fresnolibrary.org/branch/bear.html}}</ref>