Hardwick, CA

Hardwick is a census-designated place in Kings County, California, United States. The 2020 census counted 151 residents. Hardwick is part of the Hanford-Corcoran metropolitan area. Hardwick is in the San Joaquin Valley along Excelsior Avenue, between 14th and 15th Avenues. The short version is that Hardwick carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Hardwick: its past remains attached to the places people use now. A post office was established in Hardwick in 1895, discontinued in 1904, reestablished in 1909, and finally permanently closed in 1942. The community is located in the Kings River.