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Kings County is a county located
in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California,
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southeast of Fresno County. It is located in a rich agricultural region. As of 2000 the population was 129,461. The county seat is Hanford. The county derives its
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name from the Kings River, which, according to Padre Munoz' diary of the Moraga Expedition of 1806, was discovered in 1805 by an exploring expedition and named Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Holy Kings).
Kings County was formed in 1893 from the western part of Tulare County. In 1909 a triangular area of 118 square miles was
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taken from Fresno County and added to Kings County [[1]]
The county derives its name from the Kings River, which, according to Padre Muñoz' diary of the Moraga Expedition of 1806, was discovered in 1805 by an exploring expedition and named Rio de los Santos Reyes (River of the Holy Kings).
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 3,604 km² (1,391 mi²). 3,603 km² (1,391 mi²) of it is land and 1 km² (0 mi²) of it (0.04%) is water.
Most of the historic Tulare Lake was within Kings County. Although reclaimed for farming late in the 19th Century, it was once was considered to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes.