Kern Lake

Kern Lake
Location of Kern Lake in California, USA.
Location of Kern Lake in California, USA.
Kern Lake
Location of Kern Lake in California, USA.
Location of Kern Lake in California, USA.
Kern Lake
LocationSan Joaquin Valley
Kern County, California
Coordinates35°07′20″N 119°03′22″W / 35.122188°N 119.056216°W / 35.122188; -119.056216
Lake typeFlat
Primary inflowsKern River
Basin countriesUnited States
Surface elevation282 ft (86 m)
ReferencesU.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kern Lake Bed

Kern Lake, originally Laguna de los Tulares,[1] was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California.

It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River. Kern Lake is now a dry lake bed, due to agricultural diversion of the Kern River waters and the aquifer.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Plan del paraje conocido bajo el nombre de Tejon, From U.S. District Court, California, Land case map D-1366A (Land case S.D. 327 p. 89 in Bancroft Library); José A. Aguirre et al., claimants.Tracing of 1843 ms. map. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink.4362 E48
  2. ^ George Gilbert Lynch, THE LATE, GREAT, BUENA VISTA LAKE, Historic Kern, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 3, Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, Fall - 2009 Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine


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