Kings Valley is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

and

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

in Benton County,

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, United States. It is located on the

Luckiamute River The Luckiamute River is a tributary of the Willamette River, about long, in western Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of Central Oregon Coast Range and the western Willamette Valley northwest of Corvallis. It rises in the remote mo ...

and

Oregon Route 223 Oregon Route 223 is a state highway in the U.S. State of Oregon, which runs between the town of Wren, Oregon and the city of Dallas, Oregon. It is known as the Kings Valley Highway No. 191 (see Oregon highways and routes) and is long. It ...

, the Kings Valley Highway. As of the 2023 census population estimates it had a population of 147. Kings Valley was named after its first

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, Nahum King, who took out a land claim there in 1846.David D. Fagan
''History of Benton County, Oregon; Including its Geology, Topography, Soil and Productions...''
Portland, OR: A.G. Walling, 1885; pg. 324. A flour mill was built in the community in 1853. Kings Valley post office ran from 1855 to 1974.Lewis A. McArthur and Lewis L. McArthur, ''

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.'' Seventh Edition. Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2003; pg. ???. Fort Hoskins Historic Park is nearby, in the former community of Hoskins. The

Valley and Siletz Railroad The Valley and Siletz Railroad (VS) is a defunct railroad located in Polk and Benton counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. The railroad began construction in 1912. It was long by 1915, long by 1917, and was extended to and completed later th ...

formerly ran through Kings Valley. The K-12 Kings Valley Charter School is located in Kings Valley. The Shrewsbury

Renaissance Faire A Renaissance Festival (medieval fair or ren faire) is an outdoor gathering that aims to entertain its guests by recreating a historical setting, most often the English Renaissance. Renaissance festivals generally include costumed entertainers ...

, originally located in nearby

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, now takes place in Kings Valley every September.

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Historic Photos of Kings Valley from Salem Public LibraryShrewsbury Renaissance Faire
Unincorporated communities in Benton County, Oregon Census-designated places in Oregon 1855 establishments in Oregon Territory Unincorporated communities in Oregon Populated places established in 1855 {{BentonCountyOR-geo-stub

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