HANFORD, a city in the central part of California, U.S.A., 3om. S. of Fresno; the county seat of Kings county. It is served by the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific railways. The popula tion was 5,888 in 1920; 7,028 in 193o by the Federal census. It lies in the irrigated part of the rich San Joaquin valley, where farm ing, fruit growing and dairying are the principal industries. The city was incorporated in 1891.