Saturday, October 17, 2015

Imagine the Sacramento River 20 miles wide: It happened in 1862

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  • Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was
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The entire Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were inundated for an extent of 300 miles (480 km), averaging 20 miles (32 km) in breadth.[17] John Carr wrote of his riverboat trip up the Sacramento River when it was at one of its highest stages of flood:

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