Recently I caught a Facebook post regarding the vague history of Chisholm's Ferry on the Kings River. Chisholm's Ferry was a crossing of the Kings River that was established likely in the early 1880s a couple miles west of Lemoore. At some point prior to 1892 the ferry was replaced by a bridge structure which was incorporated into the early ("dotted-line") implied route of Legislative Route Number 10 when it was extended from Hanford to San Lucas in 1915. Legislative Route Number 10 appears to have functionally existed briefly on the Chisholm's Ferry Bridge before Jackson Avenue (future CA 198) was built circa 1920-1922. The 1935 Division of Highways Map indicates that Chisholm's Ferry Bridge existed as late as 1935, all that remains today is the approach on both sides of the Kings River. Included in the blog below are several maps of the Lemoore area westward to the Kings River from the 1870s onward. Of interest the 1876 Map of Tulare County shows Tulare Lake extending north of the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks close to Lake Slough. Tulare Lake is shown having a massive decline in the 1880s following the constructions of numerous levees around the high level of the lake. For reference, Tulare Lake by surface area was once the largest lake west of the Mississippi River by surface area but was also extremely shallow. Tulare Lake essentially declined due to irrigation divisions and upstream flood controls.
https://www.gribblenation.org/2019/07/chisholm-ferrybridge-location-and-early.html