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The Tulare Lake basin is home to half a dozen small towns, including Allensworth, the oldest town in California founded by Black people, and Corcoran, which houses a large state prison and a large ...
Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, was last full in 1878. Recent storms have flooded thousands of acres of farmland in the area. April 10, 2023 ...
Around the farm and prison town of Corcoran, gray-blue waves now whoosh surreally to the horizon. Snowy white birds soar over dirt levees that, so far, are shielding some 22,000 residents and inmates.
Once 120,000 acres, roughly the size of Lake Tahoe, Tulare Lake had receded to 61,000 acres as of early August, Ferrier said. At its highest, the lake’s depth averaged between 5 and 7 feet.
The concern is greatest for Tulare Lake, ... Corcoran, population just under 23,000, half of those incarcerated in the state prison there, ...
A mailbox is seen along Dairy Avenue, about 4 miles south of Corcoran where flooding is re-creating the historic Tulare Lake. Photographed Wednesday, March 22, 2023 near Corcoran, California.
Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi, has resurfaced in California’s San Joaquin Valley, after 130 years, flooding 94,000 acres of farmland. This marks the lake ...
A California "ghost lake" Tulare Lake that disappeared in the 17th century is making its grand return after 130 years, swallowing up 94,000 acres and counting of private farmland.