THE KINGS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Tulare Basin/Fresno Slough setting.
Kings County has 1,391 square miles of land in California. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Kings County: Tulare Basin/Fresno Slough, Granitic Alluvial Fans and Terraces, Eastern Hills, among others.
The Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems occupy broad sediment-filled basins, with fans and terraces toward the valley margins. These nearly level landscapes contrast with California's surrounding hills and mountains.
Regional context: Central California Valley ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kings County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Tulare Basin/Fresno Slough40%
- Granitic Alluvial Fans and Terraces22.4%
- Eastern Hills15.9%
- Panoche and Cantua Fans and Basins12.2%
- Pleasant Valley/Kettleman Plain4.6%
Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains in Kings County
Oak woodland, chaparral and grassland occupy foothills and low coastal mountains around the Central Valley. Narrow agricultural valleys interrupt this landscape of dry summers and wetter winters.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Kings County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kings County, including Avenal, Hanford, Lemoore. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kings County by land and water
The Census records 1.22 square miles of water within Kings County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Kings County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kings County has 1,995.7 times the land area of nearby Stratford CDP (0.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fresno County, Kern County, Monterey County, San Luis Obispo County, Tulare County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

