Kern Lake

Kern Lake,^[1]was the smallest of the three large lakes in the Tulare Basin, in the southwestern San Joaquin Valley of California.

Kern Lake
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Location	San Joaquin Valley Kern County, California
Coordinates	35.122188°N 119.056216°W / 35.122188; -119.056216
Lake type	Flat
Primary inflows	Kern River
Basin countries	United States
Surface elevation	282 ft (86 m)
References	U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kern Lake Bed

It was the first of the lakes fed by the Kern River. Kern Lake is now a dry lake bed, due to agricultural diversion of the Kern River waters and the aquifer.^[2]

See also

• Lake Isabella, modern lake of Kern River
• Buena Vista Lake
• List of lakes in California
• Tulare Lake

References

1. Plan del paraje conocido bajo el nombre de Tejon, From U.S. District Court, California, Land case map D-1366A (Land case S.D. 327 p. 89 in Bancroft Library); José A. Aguirre et al., claimants.Tracing of 1843 ms. map. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink.4362 E48
2. George Gilbert Lynch, THE LATE, GREAT, BUENA VISTA LAKE, Historic Kern, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 3, Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, Fall - 2009 Archived 2012-06-11 at the Wayback Machine