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Sumner Hill, California

Unincorporated communities in CaliforniaUnincorporated communities in Madera County, CaliforniaUse mdy dates from July 2023

Sumner Hill is an unincorporated community in Madera County, California. Lying at an elevation of 535 feet (163 m), it is six-and-half miles north of Woodland Park in Fresno. It was created in 1985 as a 49-lot subdivision on a bluff on the eastern section of Peck Ranch, on the Madera County side of the San Joaquin River. The gated community developed a reputation for its high-priced homes. In the 1990s, the entire 15,000-acre area south of Little Table Mountain and east of Highways 41 and 45, including Sumner Hill, started being called "Rio Mesa".In a six-year legal battle, the Sumner Hill Homeowners' Association fought to protect the subdivision's exclusive access to the San Joaquin River via Killkelly Road, with a Fresno appellate court affirming in 2012 that the statute of limitations had expired for Rio Mesa developers to claim public access. As of 2012, Sumner Hill remained the only significant residential development in the Rio Mesa area. In a subsequent lawsuit, the Rio Mesa developers won a $25 million judgment against a national title insurance company for failing to defend their access to the river through Sumner Hill.

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Sumner Hill, California
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