{{for|the lake in Victoria, Australia|Gippsland Lakes}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Lake King | state = wa | image = Lake King Agencies.jpg | caption = Lake King Agencies, 2015 | lga = Shire of Lake Grace | local_map = yes | zoom = 9 | coordinates = {{coord|33.085|S|119.689|E|display=inline,title}} | postcode = 6356 | est = 1936 | pop = <!--leave blank to draw the latest automatically from Wikidata--> | area = {{wikidata|property|raw|P2046}} | elevation= 344 | stategov = Roe | fedgov = O'Connor | dist1 = 464 | dir1 = ESE | location1= Perth | dist2 = 64 | dir2 = NW | location2= Ravensthorpe | dist3 = 114 | dir3 = E | location3=Lake Grace }} '''Lake King''' is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, {{convert|464|km|mi|0}} from Perth along State Route 40 between Ravensthorpe and Newdegate. As of 2016, the town had a population of 95.<ref name=Census2016Y>{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC50813|name=Lake King (State Suburb) |accessdate=4 May 2020|quick=on}}</ref> The 2011 census recorded both the population of the town and the surrounding area for a population of 332.<ref name=Census2011Y>{{Census 2011 AUS|id=SSC50423|name=Lake King (State Suburb) |accessdate=4 May 2020|quick=on}}</ref>
Lake King is named after a nearby lake which in turn was named after the Surveyor General of Western Australia, Henry Sandford King, by Marshall Fox, District Surveyor (Narrogin).
In 1926, following completion of an initial land classification survey of the Lake King district that defined 230,000 acres as suitable for settlement,<ref>{{cite news |title=Land Classification |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/156973995 |access-date=4 May 2020 |work=Great Southern Leader |date=15 October 1926 |location=Pingelly, WA |page=8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Land Settlement |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/38029249 |access-date=4 May 2020 |work=Western lMail |date=4 November 1926 |location=Perth, WA}}</ref> a large official inspection party was led by Surveyor General John Percy Camm, Sydney Stubbs (MLA Wagin), Edwin Wilkie Corboy (MLA Yilgarn), and James Cornell (MLC South Province).<ref>{{cite news |title=Lake King |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/257768089 |access-date=4 May 2020 |work=The Wagin Argus and Arthur, Dumbleyung, Lake Grace Express |date=1 October 1926 |pages=3–4}}</ref> The area was surveyed and access roads built during 1927, and land was released in 1928 at prices from 4/6 to 16/- per acre.<ref>{{cite news |title=Government Land |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/211758634 |access-date=4 May 2020 |work=Bruce Rock Post and Corrigin and Narembeen Guardian |date=30 March 1928 |page=6}}</ref> The town struggled through the Great Depression but thrived in the postwar years on the back of high wool and wheat prices.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lakeking.com.au/history.htm|title=The history of Lake King|year=2006|access-date=29 September 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721125419/http://www.lakeking.com.au/history.htm|archive-date=21 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The Lake King Progress Association lobbied the government to declare a townsite in 1935 and the town was gazetted in 1936.<ref>{{LandInfo WA|c|L|30 September 2008}}</ref>
The surrounding areas produce wheat and other cereal crops. The town is a receival site for Cooperative Bulk Handling.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf |title=CBH receival sites |year=2011 |access-date=1 April 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318082458/https://www.cbh.com.au/media/120302/cbh%20receival%20sites%20-%20contact%20details.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2012 }}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}} {{Towns Wheatbelt South WA}}
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Category:Towns in Western Australia Category:Grain receival points of Western Australia Category:Shire of Lake Grace