In her book, Jones called the flood of 1861-62 “the most devastating event in California history” — superseding even the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The Great Flood of 1861–1862 was a preview of what ... second only to Fresno among California counties. (Altogether, five San Joaquin Valley counties use about half of the more than 200 ...

The Great Flood of 1861–1862 was a preview of what ... second only to Fresno among California counties. (Altogether, five San Joaquin Valley counties use about half of the more than 200 ...

The “Great Flood” of 1861-62 was followed by the “Great Drought” of 1863-65. Hardly any rain fell on Central or Southern California during that period.

California’s legislature, unable to function in the submerged city, finally gave up and moved to San Francisco on January 22, to wait out the floods. Sacramento remained underwater for months.

Things were going well for California in 1861. It had been a state for 11 years. The crazy tumult of the Gold Rush had subsided and there were serious plans to construct a railroad connecting the ...

I’m delighted that weatherman Anthony Watts has spot-lighted California’s “Great Flood” of 1861/62, because so few Californians know about it. I taught about it in an OLLI class I called ...

Giant floods like those that inundated the Central Valley in 1861 and 1862 are part of California’s natural cycle, but the latest science shows that the coming megafloods, intensified by climate ...

California has experienced severe floods throughout the 20th Century, including in 1969, 1986, and 1997. But a flood from farther in the past – the Great Flood of 1862 – is being eyed by ...