The Kettleman Hills is a low mountain range of the interior

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, in western Kings County,

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. It is a northwest–southeast trending line of hills about 30 miles long which parallels the

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to the west. The Kettleman Hills are named (though misspelled) after Dave Kettelman, a pioneer sheep and cattle rancher who grazed his animals there in the 1860s.Brown, Robert R. and Richmond, J.E., ''History of Kings County'', p.123, A.H. Cawston, Hanford, CA, 1940 The hills, which rise to an elevation of approximately , divide the

San Joaquin Valley The San Joaquin Valley ( ; es, Valle de San Joaquín) is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies south of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the San Joaquin River. It comprises seven c ...

on the east from the much smaller

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to the west. They are the location of the

Kettleman North Dome Oil Field The Kettleman North Dome Oil Field is a large oil and gas field in Kings and Fresno counties, California. Discovered in 1928, it is the fifteenth largest field in the state by total ultimate oil recovery, and of the top twenty oil fields, it is ...

. The

Kettleman Hills Hazardous Waste Facility The Kettleman Hills Hazardous Waste Facility is a large (1,600 acre; 4,000 hectare) hazardous waste and municipal solid waste disposal facility, operated by Waste Management, Inc. The landfill is located at , southwest of Kettleman City on Stat ...

, a large ()

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and

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disposal facility operated by

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, is located southwest of

Kettleman City Kettleman City is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kings County, California, United States. Kettleman City is located southwest of Hanford, 54 miles (88 km) south of Fresno, at an elevation of , and sits only about 1/2 mile north of the 36th p ...

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References

California Coast Ranges Mountain ranges of Northern California Mountain ranges of Kings County, California Geography of the San Joaquin Valley {{KingsCountyCA-geo-stub