Lemoore
| Lemoore, California | |
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| Charter city | |
 Location in Kings County and the state of California |
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 Lemoore, California
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| Coordinates: 36°18′03″N 119°46′58″W / 36.30083°N 119.78278°WCoordinates: 36°18′03″N 119°46′58″W / 36.30083°N 119.78278°W | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |
 California
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| County |
 Kings
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| Incorporated | July 4, 1900 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council-Manager |
| • Mayor | Ray Madrigal |
| • Mayor Pro Tem | Eddie Neal |
| • City Manager | Andrea Welsh |
| Area | |
| • Total | 8.517 sq mi (22.058 km2) |
| • Land | 8.517 sq mi (22.058 km2) |
| • Water | 0 sq mi (0 km2) 0% |
| Elevation | 230 ft (70 m) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 26,199 |
| • Density | 3,100/sq mi (1,200/km2) |
| Time zone | Pacific (PST) (UTC−8) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC−7) |
| ZIP codes | 93245, 93246 |
| Area code(s) | 559 |
| FIPS code | 06-41152 |
| GNIS feature IDs | 1660905, 2410819 |
| Website | www |
Lemoore (formerly, La Tache and Lee Moore's) is a city in Kings County, California, United States. Lemoore is located 7.5 miles (12 km) west-southwest of Hanford, at an elevation of 230 feet (70 m). It is part of the Hanford–Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 24,531 at the 2010 Census. The California Department of Finance estimated that Lemoore's population was 26,199 on January 1, 2016.
Lemoore is located at 36°18′03″N 119°46′58″W / 36.30083°N 119.78278°W.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.5 square miles (22 km2), all of it land.
The maps published by Thos. H. Thompson in 1892, shows three high water levels of the giant Tulare Lake in different years. The highest lake level, the one Thompson labeled "original lake line" skirts or touches the 1892 town of Lemoore's south-west corner at the current intersection of State Route 41 and State Route 198. On Thompson's map, Lemoore is on the east bank, and about five miles away Lemoore Naval Air Station would have been on the west bank of the pointy northern tip of Tulare Lake at its maximum size. At the extreme northern point of Tulare Lake was its natural, occasional "flood year" spillway northbound into Bogg Slough, Fresno Slough, and the San Joaquin River's watershed, onward to the sea at San Francisco Bay. The present (2014) remaining marshy remnants of Bogg Slough, with its unfarmed oxbow structures may be the last of their kind to avoid the plow in the Kings-San Joaquin river system. This "summit," or spillway is located just a few miles north-west of Lemoore, off Grangeville Blvd at elevation 210 ft. The spillway was wide, shallow and confusing, choked with tall tule rushes, and without observable landmarks. Only one commercial boat is known to have sailed from Tulare Lake to the San Francisco delta. Tulare Lake had huge economic importance in the region, both for the very large population of Indians, and the white pioneers. The lake supported a large commercial fishery feeding San Francisco, and a steam powered ferry servicing several towns and settlements. The receding lake continually opened up new agricultural lands for settlement. Because of its source streams being diverted, the last time the lake overflowed was 1878, and today it no longer exists.
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