Inyo County was formed in 1866 from the territory of the unorganized Coso County created on April 4, 1864 from parts of Mono and Tulare Counties.

Kings County was formed in 1893 from the western part of Tulare County.

Most of the historic Tulare Lake was within Kings County.

While it began as the state's largest county, over time territory that was once part of Mariposa was ceded to twelve other counties: Fresno, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Los Angeles, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, and Tulare.

The ' Central Valley Grassland ' is the Nearctic temperate and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands ecoregion which was once a diverse grassland containing areas of desert grassland ( at the southern end ), prairie, savanna, riverside woodland, marsh, several types of seasonal vernal pool, large lakes such as now-dry Tulare Lake, the largest lake in the United States west of the Mississippi, Buena Vista Lake and Kern Lake.

When Kings County was created in 1893 from the western part of Tulare County, Hanford became its county seat.

Wolfskill was planning to trap beaver in the Tulare Valley of California.

Until the twentieth century, Goshen was an island in a marsh at the edge of Tulare Lake, formerly the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes until drained.

The Yokut people built Reed boats and fished in what was later to be called Tulare Lake in their homeland for centuries, until the invasion and settlement by the Spanish and American pioneers.

Tulare was founded in 1872, by the Southern Pacific Railroad.

The town was named for Lake Tulare.

Although the railroad was gone, the community of Tulare struggled to become an agricultural center for California, which it is today.

Once the water system was established, Tulare burgeoned, becoming an invaluable center for farming and agriculture because of its central location.

Vaca Valley Railroad officials gave the name Esperanza (" hope " in Spanish ) to their new townsite in 1888, but when the post office was established in 1890 the name had to be changed because there was already an Esperanza in Tulare County.

Until the late 19th century, Tulare Lake was the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River and the second largest freshwater lake entirely in the United States, based upon surface area.

Tulare Lake was the largest of several similar lakes in its lower basin.

If they overflowed, it was through the Kern River channel northwest through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into Tulare Lake.

Tulare Lake was written about by Mark Twain.

Tulare Lake was nearly dry by the early 20th century.

Tulare Lake was formerly the largest freshwater lake in western North America, but heavy agricultural and urban diversions have left it dry.

Nunes was born in Tulare, California.

Nunes was the only major candidate from Tulare County, while Patterson and Briggs were both from Fresno.

* Golden Trout Wilderness ( entirely in Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest / partly in Tulare County, CA )

* South Sierra Wilderness ( entirely in Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest / partly in Tulare County, CA )

Remaining vernal pools include Pixley National Wildlife Refuge between Tulare, California and Bakersfield and Jepson Prairie Preserve in the delta.

The Exeter Public Library | Exeter Public Library building, a Carnegie library, is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California | National Register of Historic Places ; it now serves as a community center.

The Orosi Branch Library is on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California | National Register of Historic Places.

The Porterville Main post office is one of three Porterville structures on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California | National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP ).

It is on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, west-northwest of the lowest point in North America at Badwater in Death Valley National Park at below sea level.

The General Sherman is a giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum ) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California.

The main branch of the river ( sometimes called the North Fork Kern River ) rises from several small lakes west of Mount Whitney in the high Sierra Nevada mountains in northeastern Tulare County, in the northeast corner of Sequoia National Park.

Like the North Fork, the South Fork rises in Tulare County and flows mainly south, through Inyo National Forest.

* Bank of Italy ( Visalia, California ), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Tulare County, California

The Washington tree is a giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest Grove in Tulare County, California, within Sequoia National Park.

* The 14 groves in the Kings River watershed are in the northern section of Giant Sequoia National Monument ( GSNM ), or in the Sequoia National Forest ( SeNF ), in southernmost Fresno County and Tulare County:

* The 19 groves in the Tule River and Kern River watersheds are mostly in Giant Sequoia National Monument ( GSNM ); all in southern Tulare County.

Settlers reclaimed Tulare Lake and its wetlands for agricultural development.

Five thousand workers gathered in Tulare for the dead strikers ' funerals, one of the largest agricultural demonstrations in California's history.

They hauled their goods to Tulare for Shipment.

The city is named for the currently dry Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes.

The Los Angeles and San Francisco ports are each approximately away, making Tulare a hub or central location for product movement.

Tulare is responsible for a significant part of Tulare County's 342, 600 dairy cows, which help to produce more than 8. 9 billion pounds of milk each year.

During World War II, in response to west coast wartime hysteria, the U. S. Army temporarily assumed control of the Tulare County Fairgrounds, converting it to the Tulare Assembly Center, a temporary detention center for Japanese Americans.

Tulare currently offers 10 different elementary schools for its citizens.

College of the Sequoias recently began the construction on the new Tulare Center for Agriculture and Technology campus, located in Tulare.

Hitchcock co-ops with the nearby town of Tulare for sports, making them the Hitchcock / Tulare Patriots.

There is evidence in the Hanford area that depths to groundwater are increasing, indicating concern for safe yields of the Tulare Lake groundwater subbasin.

His family has operated a farm in Tulare County for three generations.

Some Indian groups relied heavily on pine nuts for food and are thought to have contributed to the current distribution pattern, including the large gap in distribution in Tulare County.

It begins in the Sierra Nevada on the eastern side of Tulare County and ends on the west side of Kern County where it is mainly diverted for local water supplies.

Fages also named the canyon beyond the pass leading down into the Tulare Basin, Cañada de las Uvas ( Canyon of the Grapes ) for all the grape vines growing in it.