Maps

Maps enable the viewer to broaden their knowledge of the Tulare Basin by displaying a wide variety of location, water, plant and wildlife information.

Tulare Basin Project Area
This map depicts the location of the Tulare Basin within California. As defined by the Tulare Basin Wildlife Partners (TBWP), the Tulare Basin hydrologic unit includes the valley floor alluvial fans of Kings, Kaweah, Tule, and Kern rivers, as well as a few lesser streams from the Sierra foothills; the historic lake beds in the Basin area; and the southwestern uplands. This map depicts many similarities with the maps used to define the Tulare Basin hydrologic unit by United States Geological Survey and the California Department of Water Resources; however, the TBWP map does not include the Fresno-Clovis and Little Panoche Creek sub-watersheds, which flow directly into the San Joaquin River Basin watershed. The only connection between the Tulare Basin hydrologic unit, as referred to by TBWP, and the San Joaquin River Basin watershed is where the Fresno Slough/James Bypass system joins the San Joaquin River at Mendota Pool. Elizabeth Palmer, Natural Resources Conservation Service ©2008.

Tulare Basin Faux 1851 Satellite Map
Using Photoshop, Arcview, old maps and modern satellite photos this map depicts the waterways and lakes that existed in 1851. Locations of the waterways were taken from an 1873 proposed irrigation system map prepared for the State Board of Commissioners on Irrigation shown in the inset. Mark Clark ©2008.