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 height of 230 feet (70 m). It is share of the Hanford-Corcoran Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA Code 25260). The population was 24,531 at the 2010 Census. The California Department of Finance estimated that Lemoore’s population was 26,725 on July 1, 2019.

Dr. Lovern Lee Moore first made his home in what was western Tulare County, California—now the City of Lemoore—in April, 1871. It was on the northern shoreline (just above the high-water mark) of Tulare Lake, then potentially the largest freshwater body of water in the US, outside of the Great Lakes. The American pioneers from eastern states maxim this as a stretch of huge virgin land on which sheep, horses and wild animals had grazed but had never been cultivated.

By the get older Dr. Moore arrived, scores of individual farms dotted the landscape, but as Tulare Lake retreated, more became forever available. The soil was wealthy and productive as it had been brought by the side of and deposited for centuries from the tall Sierras by the Kings River and the Los Gatos Creek alluvial fan from the Coast Range. Wells were simple to dig, as the water level was unusually high. So water was rich for irrigation from shallow wells farm families installed. Raising of sheep and grains were principal concerns of farmers in the area.

However, the pioneers were somewhat isolated, since they had to goal by horse as far and wide as 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast to Grangeville settlement, to gain mail or newspapers. It was even farther to Kingston for additional supplies. Hanford was not founded until unconventional in 1877. Even the Place was called by various names, believed to be of Indian origin, such as Latache, Tailholt, or just, in English, the Lake District.