POPULATION: 153,608

INCORPORATION DATE: 1893

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Joe Neves
• District 2 – Richard Valle
• District 3 – Doug Verboon
• District 4 – Rusty Robinson
• District 5 – Richard Fagundes

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

KINGS. County seat, Hanford. Created March 22, 1893. The county was created out of a part of Tulare County; some 100 square miles of territory from Fresno County was added in 1908. It derived its 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).