The 1861-62 flood was a seminal moment in California history ... Mountain View, Cupertino, San Jose and Palo Alto, could be flooded. So could areas of San Mateo and Alameda counties, including ...

The Great California Flood of 1861-1862 was a series of four floods ... Some of the worst flooding occurred in Northern California. In San Jose, Coyote Creek overflowed its banks and inundated ...

A 43-day storm that began in December 1861 ... 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.

The state capital was temporarily moved to San Francisco ... even in “sunny” Southern California. The “Great Flood” of 1861-62 was followed by the “Great Drought” of 1863-65.

Geologists have drilled/core-sampled San Francisco Bay, plus lake and marsh sediments throughout California, to positively identify the stream gravels deposited by the 1861/62 flood. Drilling ...

San Jose has gone from parched earth to soggy ground after this past weekend's soaking, and more is on the way. San Jose got nearly 1.5 inches of rainfall last weekend, with some flooding around ...