Kings Valley Oregon Map

About Kings Valley, Oregon

Kings Valley is a locality in Benton County, Oregon, United States. It is a small community with a population of 56. The population density is 29.7 people per km². Kings Valley is located at 44.6985°N, 123.4269°W. It observes the Pacific Time (America/Los_Angeles) timezone. ZIP code: 97361.

Kings Valley exists as a quiet confluence of riparian shadow and open, sun-drenched fields where the Luckiamute River carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape. It lies 13.0 miles northwest of Corvallis, OR (from Corvallis, OR: bearing 319°T), and is situated 16.9 miles west-northwest of Albany. The river, a protected WSR, acts as the primary pulse of the terrain, its banks lined with dense thickets that transition into the broader expanse of the valley floor. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Coast Range anchor the horizon, grounding the wide, verdant basin that defines the local topography. Only a mile away, the quiet waters of Emory Moore Reservoir gather in the stillness, reflecting the shifting grey and amber light that settles over the fields as the afternoon wanes. The air here holds a distinctive, lingering dampness, a heavy sweetness of soil and river-silt that seems to hold the day in a state of suspended, quiet growth.

Agriculture provides the foundational rhythm for the people of Kings Valley, where the labor of the land remains deeply tied to the seasonal cycles of the surrounding woodlands. While the nearby Adair Tract State Forest offers a dense, protective canopy of fir and cedar, the valley itself is an open theater of grass seed and timber production. The history of Kings Valley is inscribed in the weathered barns and the persistent, unhurried movement of machinery across the fields, signaling a way of life that values the long view over the immediate. There is a particular clarity to the light at dusk, catching the edges of the river-grass and casting long, thin shadows that stretch toward the timberline, reminding the observer that the character of this place is defined less by event and more by the steady, iterative persistence of the earth itself.

About This Kings Valley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kings Valley, Oregon. Coordinates: 44.698503, -123.426859. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Kings Valley includes the ZIP code (97361), telephone area code (503, 971), county seat of Benton County (Corvallis), and school district assignment (Philomath School District 17J).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.