Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Buena Vista Lake was a fresh-water lake in Kern County, California, in the Tulare Lake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Buena Vista Lake was the second largest of several similar lakes in the Tulare Lake basin, and was fed by the waters of the Kern River .
Tulare Lake was the largest of several lakes in its lower basin. Most of the Kern River's flow first went into Kern Lake and Buena Vista Lake via the Kern River and Kern River Slough southwest and south of the site of Bakersfield. If they overflowed, it was through the Kern River channel northwest through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into ...
Water from Kern Lake would then flow west through Buena Vista Slough into Buena Vista Lake. In periods of extremely high runoff, Buena Vista Lake overflowed and joined other wetlands and seasonal lakes in a series of sloughs that drained north into the former Tulare Lake, which would sometimes overflow into the San Joaquin River via Fresno Slough.
In times when Buena Vista Lake overflowed it first backed up into Kern Lake making one large lake. When this larger lake overflowed it flowed out through the Buena Vista Slough that began southeast of what is now Tupman where it met the Kern River distributary channel to the San Joaquin River It then ran northwest from there through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into Tulare Lake west of the ...
Lake Webb is a manmade recreational lake in Kern County, California. It is primarily a motorboat, jet skiing, and waterskiing lake. It is one of two lakes that are part of the Buena Vista Aquatic Recreation Area southwest of Bakersfield. [1] The lake is located on the lakebed of the former Buena Vista Lake.
Buena Vista Lake, now drained, in Kern County, California; Buena Vista Lake Bed, a watershed within the Great Basin in Buena Vista Valley; Buena Vista Oil Field, in Kern County, California; Buena Vista Park, a park in the Haight-Ashbury and Buena Vista Heights neighborhoods of San Francisco, California; Buena Vista Township (disambiguation)
Buena Vista Lake, Kern Lake and Tulare Lake are remnants of Lake Corcoran. [5] The lake is the source of the Corcoran Clay, [2] a lacustrine unit of the Tulare and Turlock Lake formations. [7] It also influenced sedimentation off the coast of California. [8] The lake existed between about 758,000 and 665,000 years ago. [2] Clay deposition rates ...
Buena Vista, California, the name (and former name) of a census-designated place and multiple unincorporated communities in California ("Good view") Buena Vista, Michigan - an unincorporated community within Buena Vista Charter Township, Saginaw County in Michigan (named for the place where Zachary Taylor had recently won a victory in the ...