what county is king city, ca
King City, Monterey County, California. On the morning of September 26, 1769, Don Gaspar de PortolÃ¡ led his party of more than sixty men down from Jolon into the Salinas Valley. On the way they encountered Indians, most likely Salinan, a village of more than two hundred people. They stopped to trade glass beads for pine nuts and then moved on.