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The Kings River (Spanish: Río de los Santos Reyes), is a 132.9-mile (213.9 km) [2] river draining the Sierra Nevada mountain range in central California in the United States. Its headwaters originate along the Sierra Crest in and around Kings Canyon National Park and form the eponymous Kings Canyon, one of the deepest river gorges in North ...
Kings River, former name of Centerville, Fresno County, California Kings River (Arkansas) in Arkansas and Missouri, United States Kings River (California) in California, United States
The Kings River — a major river in central California, flowing from the Sierra Nevada into the San Joaquin Valley, within Fresno County and Kings County. Part of the San Joaquin River Basin and Tulare Basin watersheds, with notable diversions into the Central Valley Project .
The Harris River Ranch property, over 7,000 acres near the Kings River along Trimmer Springs Road, has been proposed as a special study area and added to the Fresno County general plan.
The North Fork Kings River is a 40.3-mile (64.9 km) [2] tributary of the Kings River, in the U.S. state of California. The river's main stem is entirely within Fresno County , and its watershed drains about 387 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of the southern Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Fresno Slough is a distributary of the Kings River that connects the North Fork Kings River to the San Joaquin River in San Joaquin Valley, Kings County, California.. Until 1879 when irrigation diversions prevented it, Fresno Slough was also an outlet of the overflow waters of Tulare Lake into the San Joaquin River in flood years, when its level topped the 210 foot elevation.
The purpose was to nearly double the storage capacity on the Kings River, as the existing Pine Flat Dam is unable to provide the high degree of flood protection for which it was originally built. [2] The original plan called for a concrete gravity dam 640 feet (200 m) high, which would have formed a reservoir flooding 11 miles (18 km) of the ...