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The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.
Some 19th-century maps show Los Gatos Creek and others on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley reaching the North Fork Kings River distributary after it turned south toward Tulare Lake. [3] [4] [5] This probably reflected what happened in extremely wet years like 1852, 1861–62 and 1873–74, before the advent of agricultural diversion ...
The Santa Ana River drains the largest watershed of California's South Coast region, ... In the Great Flood of 1862, ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
Researchers found evidence of two epic Southern California floods that occurred in the last 600 years and were much larger than the Great Flood of 1862.
It impacted Northern California, resulting in some of the most devastating flooding since the Great Flood of 1862. Similarly to the 1862 event, the flooding was a combined effect of heavy rainfall and excessive snowmelt of the relatively large early-season Sierra Nevada snowpack. [32]
Great Flood of 1862; Los Angeles flood of 1938; 1939 California tropical storm; Christmas flood of 1964; 1997 California New Years Floods; 1997 Merced River flood; Los Angeles County flood of 2005; 2017 California floods; January 2018 Western United States floods; 2022–2023 California floods
California has sought to control its rivers for 172 years, and the storms will only get worse. These are 6 of the worst floods in Sacramento history. One made an ‘inland lake’ to the Sierra
The study's findings do not bode well for a state whose flood ... anything seen in recent California history — well beyond the Great Flood of 1862, which reconfigured the state's landscape ...