Kings County, California
Kings County · Hanford is the seat · Sacramento is the capital of California · Lemoore is a city · Corcoran is a city · Avenal is a city · this is not Kings County, New York
Hanford is the seat. Sacramento is the capital. Corcoran is a city, not the hall. This is not Brooklyn.
Kings County, California, was created 22 March 1893 from Tulare, and named for the Kings River — not Brooklyn as the whole map. Hanford is the county seat. Sacramento is the capital of California. Hanford is not the capital. Corcoran is not the seat. Avenal is not the seat. Do not read this page as Autauga-with-cotton. Do not read this page as Kings County, New York. Prattville is Autauga. Brooklyn is Kings County, New York — taught later as appointed / city, not this oval.
Lemoore is a city — not the hall. Corcoran is a city — not the hall. Avenal is a city — not the hall. The City of Hanford is a municipality — not the whole county government. Kettleman City, Armona, Stratford, Home Garden, and Hardwick are unincorporated communities — remainder, not a second seat. Fresno is north — Fresno is that hall. Tulare is east — Visalia is that hall. Kern is south — Bakersfield is that hall.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — Kings River remainder patrol and 1570 Kings County Drive this badge still holds in Hanford — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Kings County.
Five Supervisors at 1400 West Lacey. They do not sit as the State Assembly.
Kings is a general law county. A five-member Board of Supervisors, elected by district, sits at the Kings County Government Center, Administration Building No. 1, 1400 West Lacey Boulevard, Hanford, CA 93230. They fund roads, the Kings County Drive courthouse campus, and the Sheriff’s budget. They do not hire the Sheriff. The people do. Hanford City Council is a city body. The California Legislature sits in Sacramento. Fresno Board of Supervisors is a different county. None of those is this Board.
Kings Superior Court lists the Kings Superior Court building at 1640 Kings County Drive, Hanford — departments 1 through 10 on that campus. Do not invent one Corcoran photograph as the whole map. Confirm live at countyofkingsca.gov and kings.courts.ca.gov.
The Sheriff is a county officer (California Constitution Article XI; Government Code § 24000). This Sheriff is not on the 2026 gubernatorial table. Elections Code § 1300 (AB 759, 2022) moved sheriff and district attorney to the presidential primary. A sheriff elected in 2022 serves a six-year term; the next regular is the 2028 presidential primary. Kings has no charter that could have locked a gubernatorial-year date before 1 January 2021. Last regular 7 June 2022. Take office at noon on the first Monday after January 1 succeeding election (Gov. Code § 24200). The Governor is 2026. That is a different desk in Sacramento.
The Kings is a river. Avenal is a city. Fresno is a different county.
Interstate 5, State Route 198, and State Route 41 meet on this map. The Kings River is water, not a Fresno badge. The Tulare Lake bed is a basin, not a second county. NAS Lemoore is Navy — not this government. CSP-Corcoran, CSATF at Corcoran, and Avenal State Prison are CDCR — not this Sheriff. Staff who paste a Brooklyn photograph onto Lacey Boulevard, or treat Corcoran as the seat, or file Hanford as the capital, or rewrite this county as Autauga-with-cotton, are on the wrong county.
How a Tulare Lake public finds Lacey, Kings County Drive, and 1640
Board of Supervisors: 1400 West Lacey Boulevard, Administration Building No. 1, Hanford. Elections: 1400 West Lacey Boulevard, Building #7 — countyofkingsca.gov elections. Sheriff Administration / Civil: 1550 Kings County Drive, Hanford, CA 93230 — (559) 584-1431. Kings County Jail: 1570 Kings County Drive — jail information (559) 852-2812. Superior Court: 1640 Kings County Drive. Confirm live at countyofkingsca.gov and kings.courts.ca.gov. A student who only knows a Corcoran prison photograph, or a Sacramento photograph as this county, or treats Hanford City Hall as the jail, has not found this campus.
1570 Kings County Drive still jails. CSP-Corcoran does not. Avenal State Prison does not.
Crime in unincorporated Kings — Kettleman City, Armona, Stratford, Home Garden, Hardwick, and the remainder — is this Sheriff. Crime in Hanford is often Hanford Police. Crime in Lemoore is often Lemoore Police. Crime in Corcoran is often Corcoran Police. This Sheriff is not those municipal departments. Kings County Jail at 1570 Kings County Drive is this Sheriff’s house. Older 1444 West Lacey listings are not a substitute for the live Kings County Drive campus — confirm the live door. Official doors did not show a separate county Department of Corrections taking this house — do not invent a jailer split.
CDCR is not this Sheriff. California State Prison, Corcoran; the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility at Corcoran; and Avenal State Prison are state houses. CHP is a state badge. NAS Lemoore is federal. Do not send a family looking for a county booking to Hanford PD, to a Corcoran CDCR gate, or to Fresno County Jail.
Care without inventing Corcoran as this jailer
A peace order served in Armona remainder. A court-ordered transport from 1570 to 1640 Kings County Drive without becoming Corcoran PD. Civil process the office actually posts, including papers that must go through a CDCR litigation office when the person is in a state prison — that is service at CDCR, not this jailer becoming CDCR. Do not invent a church. Do not invent Brooklyn as this oval. Do not invent Sacramento as this hall.
What Kings actually watches
Court calendar on Kings County Drive. A wreck on I-5. Fog on 198. High water on the Kings River. Dust on the Tulare Lake bed. Coordination with Hanford PD, Lemoore PD, Corcoran PD, CHP, NAS Lemoore, and CDCR without becoming those departments. Coordination with Fresno’s Sheriff or Tulare’s Sheriff is mutual aid between two offices, not a merger. Cotton is agriculture. A prison wall is CDCR. Neither is Hanford PD as this oval.
Hanford civic snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: California · County: Kings · Seat: Hanford · Capital of California: Sacramento
- Map: Hanford · Lemoore · Corcoran · Avenal · Armona remainder · I-5 · SR 198 · the Kings River
- Not Brooklyn · Not the capital · Not Hanford PD as this oval · Not CSP-Corcoran as this jailer · Not Autauga-with-cotton
- Board: five Supervisors at 1400 West Lacey Boulevard
- Sheriff clock: not 2026 · last regular 2022 · next regular 2028 presidential primary · six-year bridge from AB 759
- Jail: 1570 Kings County Drive, Hanford — this Sheriff still holds it · Corcoran / Avenal CDCR are not this house
Orientation adapted from the California Constitution Article XI, Elections Code § 1300, Government Code §§ 24000, 24200, 25304, and 26600, Kings County official pages (countyofkingsca.gov), Kings Superior Court locations, and the Secretary of State for education. The Sheriff of record is whatever those sources say today. Confirm HQ versus court versus jail, CDCR versus this jailer, and city PD versus this badge, on official pages before you travel.
What Hanford is not, as this county
- Not the capital of California. Sacramento is.
- Not Kings County, New York. Not Brooklyn. Not Los Angeles as this hall.
- Not Corcoran / Avenal / Lemoore as the county government.
- Not Hanford Police as this oval. Not Lemoore Police. Not Corcoran Police. Not CHP.
- Not CSP-Corcoran. Not CSATF. Not Avenal State Prison. Not NAS Lemoore as this oval.
- Not Autauga-with-cotton. Not Fresno-with-a-prison.
- Not the Governor (that desk is 2026 in Sacramento).
- Not a campaign flyer.