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    An 1877 irrigation map depicting the western shore of Tulare Lake, including two islands in the southern part Lake Tulare (at full capacity) as it would appear in California today. It would be able to hold 6.5 million acre-feet (8.0 × 10 9 m 3) of water.

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    • 6.5 million acre-feet (8.0 km³) at capacity
    • dry bed 690 sq mi (1,780 km²)
  2. Apr 4, 2023 · Heavy rain and snow in the first three months of 2023 has once again brought water to Tulare’s lakebed. On March 29, 2023, the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this image (above-right) of agricultural fields near Corcoran covered with water. The image is false color, which makes the water (dark blue) stand out ...

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  4. Mar 22, 2023 · 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. If...

  5. Metadata. Sensor (s): Landsat 8 - OLI. Landsat 9 - OLI-2. Aqua - MODIS. Data Date: March 18, 2022 - March 29, 2023. Visualization Date: April 4, 2023. Tulare Lake, in California’s San Joaquin Valley, was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River. The lake would grow every winter as rainfall and snowmelt from the nearby ...

  6. Apr 5, 2023 · This map entitled, “From San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles : from explorations and surveys” created in 1859 shows Tulare lake in the Central Valley. The map was created as part of an effort by the U.S. War Department to survey potential routes for a railroad line from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean .

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  7. Jun 24, 2020 · Tulare Lake covered much of this area more than a century ago. And today, in some wet years the lake returns and the land floods. But in most years the old lake exists only in cut-off sloughs or in dismembered remnants impounded behind levees. Ecologically, this is the most altered landscape in California.

  8. 1866 BLM map of Tulare Lake above the 200-foot level, but not actively discharging into Summit Lake and the Fresno Slough. The Tulare Lake region was the first home of the local Native Americans of the Central Valley.

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