In 1983, when a long-lasting snowmelt submerged about 130 square miles of the lake bed, the damage just in Kings County cost nearly $300 million in today’s dollars, and the water took two years ...

Tulare Lake has always emerged during especially wet years, but the flooding will be worse this time: ... An 1873 map of California showing the former boundaries of Tulare Lake.

Before the Gold Rush, Tulare Lake covered about 800 square miles, Arax said. “The lake was the most dominant feature on the California map,” he said.

Tulare Lake used to be one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River. However, for the past 100 or so years, it has been drained due to the rivers that feed it being dammed and ...

Before the Gold Rush, Tulare Lake covered about 800 square miles, Arax said. “The lake was the most dominant feature on the California map,” he said.

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.

Tulare Lake is back to claim roads, orchards, farms, and anything left behind on that land. It is a disaster unfolding in slow motion, threatening everything around it, including the city of Corcoran.

A 1876 map of Tulare County shows a vast lake nearly a thousand square miles in size. During that time frame, the lake was the largest body of fresh water in the western United States.

(KSEE/KGPE) — For more than a century the former lakebed of Tulare Lake has been turned into farmland in California’s Central Valley. The footprint of the lake, when full, could reach 690 squ… ...

An aerial view of Tulare Lake, where the Kings and Tule rivers meet in the basin, is shown in this 1983 file photo during a heavy flood year. Until the late 1800s, Tulare Lake was the largest ...

The lake bed is essentially a 790-square-mile bathtub — the size of four Lake Tahoes — that dates back to the ice age. Mammoths once sipped at Tulare Lake’s shores, and tule elk ranged in ...

Tulare Lake was drained off the map. Nature… Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) ...