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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.
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 ]
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 ...
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.
The United States Geological Survey has developed a hypothetical scenario, known as the "ARkStorm", that describes the effects of a similar event in modern-day California. [2] [3] In 1861–1862, another atmospheric river event resulted in the Great Flood of 1862, which submerged most of Central Valley and parts of Southern California, and ...
Great Flood of 1862 China Slough and the railroad construction project along I Street during the great flood of 1862 Map of Sacramento, California in 1880 with Sutter Lake and Central Pacific RR station; China Slough had been cut off from the Sacramento River (left) in 1880.
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 ...
California's storms would be the first billion-dollar disaster of 2023. A damaged road in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Monday. ... and during the Great Flood of 1862, which saw more than 19 inches ...