Oval Park is a neighborhood in Visalia, California.HistoryOval Park is Visalia's oldest neighborhood.The first high school in Visalia was located on what is now the Lincoln Oval Park.Webster Grammar School was located in the West Village on Northwest Third Avenue near Pearl Street. It opened in 1917. In 1950, the building was declared unsafe as a school and was later converted into a maintenance shop and storage building. In 1961, fire damaged the structure beyond repair. The Visalia Police Department Substation now sits on the site.BoundariesAccording to the Oval Park Historical Society There are no official boundaries for Visalia's Oval Park neighborhood. It is documented that the western part of Oval Park was separated from its eastern section by the construction of highway 63. Also, Murray Avenue cut off a large southern section of the neighborhood on its most southern part. History proves, however, that there are some general boundaries:Western Boundary: Willis StreetNorthern Boundary: Houston AvenueEastern Boundary: Santa Fe StreetSouthern Boundary: Murray AvenueOval Park itself consists, in whole or in part, of the neighborhoods of Oval Park, Visalia Heights, the East Village and the West Village.Government and infrastructureLocal governmentVisalia Fire Department Station 51 serves the area.Visalia Police Department operates the District 1 Police Station at 204 NW 3rd Ave, serving the neighborhood.
