Lake King is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, 464 kilometres (288 mi) from Perth along State Route 40 between Ravensthorpe and Newdegate.

In 1926, following completion of an initial land classification survey of the Lake King district that defined 230,000 acres as suitable for settlement,[4][5] a large official inspection party was led by Surveyor General John Percy Camm, Sydney Stubbs (MLA Wagin), Edwin Wilkie Corboy (MLA Yilgan), and James Cornell (MLC South Province).

[6] The area was surveyed and access roads built during 1927, and land released in 1928 at prices from 4/6 to 16/- per acre.

[7] The town struggled through the Great Depression but thrived in the postwar years on the back of high wool and wheat prices.

[8] The Lake King Progress Association lobbied the government to declare a townsite in 1935 and the town was gazetted in 1936.