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 ...

But emerging science demonstrates that floods of even greater magnitude occurred every 100 to 200 years in California ... San Francisco Bay, he was back in the city, on a break. In a November 1861 ...

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.

Things were going well for California in 1861. It had been a state ... The Legislature temporarily met in San Francisco while Sacramento was battling the floods. California rivers had been filling ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.