Kaweah River Kern River Kings River Tule River White River
Primary outflows
Evaporation, historically underground seepage to San Joaquin River, occasional flow to Suisun Bay[1]
Basin countries
United States
Max. length
dry bed 81 mi (130 km)
Surface area
dry bed 690 sq mi (1,780 km2)
Average depth
dry
Water volume
6.5 million acre-feet (8.0 km3) at capacity
Surface elevation
187 ft (57 m)
203 ft (62 m)
210 ft (64 m) drains into Fresno Slough
Settlements
Hanford, CA Corcoran, CA Alpaugh, CA
References
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tulare Lake
Tulare Lake (/tʊˈlɛəri/ⓘ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.[2] For thousands of years, from the Paleolithic onward, Tulare Lake was a uniquely rich area, which supported perhaps the largest population of Native Americans north of present-day Mexico.[3]
In the second half of the 19th century, Tulare Lake was dried up by diverting its tributary rivers for agricultural irrigation and municipal water uses. In modern times, it is usually a dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes. The lake reappears during unusually high levels of rainfall or snow melt as it did in 1942, 1969, 1983, 1997, 1998, and 2023.
^Latta 1999, "Tulare Lake".
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TulareLake (/tʊˈlɛəri/ ) or Tache Lake (Yokuts: Pah-áh-su, Pah-áh-sē) is a freshwater lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States...
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Vista Lake, Kern Lake and TulareLake are remnants of Lake Corcoran. The lake is the source of the Corcoran Clay, a lacustrine unit of the Tulare and Turlock...
Kern Lake, originally Laguna de los Tulares, was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of...
Vista Lake was a fresh-water lake in Kern County, California, in the TulareLake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Buena Vista Lake was...
e.g. Lake Winnipeg's basin. A lake may be endorheic during dry years and can overflow its basin during wet years, e.g., the former TulareLake. Because...
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diverted for irrigation. However, the river does reach TulareLake during floods. TulareLake is the terminal sink of an endorheic basin that historically...
Island: Rise of Kong, 2023 video game Skull Island, a former island in TulareLake, California, US Skull Island, name given to Aureed Island, Queensland...
Valley. Buena Vista Lake, when overflowing, first backed up into Kern Lake and then upon rising higher drained into TulareLake via Buena Vista Slough...
Mexico City. Tules once lined the shores of TulareLake in California, formerly the largest freshwater lake in the western United States. It was drained...
former TulareLake in California was known to have overflowed its basin in some years but not others, switching between an open and closed lake. Water...
somewhat larger southern portion is the Tulare Basin, an endorheic basin centered on TulareLake. Historically, TulareLake was fed by the Tule River, the Kings...
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1862 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine TulareLake Restoration - Fiction or Fact? Using TulareLake For Water Storage California Water Plan Update...
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large lakes such as now-dry TulareLake (which was the largest freshwater lake in the United States west of the Mississippi), Buena Vista Lake, and Kern...
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The Kaweah River is a river draining the southern Sierra Nevada in Tulare County, California in the United States. Fed primarily by high elevation snowmelt...
southeastern territory of Tulare County on the west of the Sierra Nevada but was never officially organized. The south of Tulare County was later organized...
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