Buena Vista Lake
{{Short description|Former fresh-water lake in Kern County, California}}
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| name = Buena Vista Lake
| image = Tulare Lake 1874.jpg
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| location = San Joaquin Valley
Kern County, California
| coords = {{coord|35.19191|-119.294557|region:US-CA_type:waterbody_source:placeopedia | display=inline,title}}
| type = dry lake
| inflow = Kern River
Connecting Slough
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| basin_countries = United States
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| depth = {{convert|3.3|m|abbr=on}}
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| elevation = {{convert|88|m|abbr=on}}
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Buena Vista Lake was a fresh-water lake in Kern County, California, in the Tulare Lake Basin in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California.
Buena Vista Lake was the second largest of several similar lakes in the Tulare Lake basin, and was fed by the waters of the Kern River. The Kern River's flow went into Buena Vista Lake southwest through the site of Bakersfield via its main distributary channels or south through the Kern River Slough distributary into Kern Lake and then into Buena Vista Lake via Connecting Slough.
In times when Buena Vista Lake overflowed it first backed up into Kern Lake making one large lake. When this larger lake overflowed it flowed out through the Buena Vista Slough and Kern River channel northwest of Buena Vista Lake through tule marshland and Goose Lake, into Tulare Lake.
The land on the former lakebed was later owned by Miller & Lux. The Miller heirs later sold the land to the J. G. Boswell Company.https://oac.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt238nb0f4&&doc.view=entire_text
Today Lake Webb and Lake Evans occupy the lakebed on the northern shore of the former Buena Vista Lake.[https://www.dropbox.com/s/62n1jsh4uddeu6a/Vol593Fall2009.pdf?dl=0 George Gilbert Lynch, THE LATE, GREAT, BUENA VISTA LAKE, Historic Kern, Quarterly Bulletin, Volume 59, No. 3, Kern County Historical Society, Bakersfield, Fall - 2009]
In June 2023, with 300% snow pack in the Southern Sierra Mountains, the Kern river started to fill the top section of Lake Buena Vista to a depth of only a few feet.
File:Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake in Kern County, California, USA 2.webm|Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake.
File:Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake in Kern County, California, USA.webm|Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake.
Tulamniu Indian Site
{{Infobox historic site
| name = Tulamniu Indian Site
| image = Edward_S._Curtis_Collection_People_069.jpg
| caption = A Buena Vista Yokuts - Tulamniu Indian
| location = Marker is at Block House #BV4 North of Buena Vista Pumping Station
| designation1 = California
| designation1_offname = Tulamniu Indian Site
| designation1_date = September 6, 1941
| designation1_number = 374
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On Buena Vista Lake south shores was the site of the Tulamniu Indians, who spoke Buena Vista Yokuts. The site is a California Historical Landmark number 374.
California Historical Landmark reads:
:NO. 374 TULAMNIU INDIAN SITE - The old Yokuts village of Tulamniu was named Buena Vista by Spanish Commander Fages in 1772. Fr. Zalvidea again recorded the site in 1806. This village was occupied for several centuries, and in 1933-34 its site was excavated by the Smithsonian Institution.[https://www.californiahistoricallandmarks.com/landmarks/chl-374 californiahistoricallandmarks.com Landmark chl-374 ][https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21423 Cal California parks Historical Landmarks]
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.californiaprehistory.com/reports02/rep0029.html David A. Fredrickson, BUENA VISTA LAKE (CA-KER-116) REVISITED, This article originally appeared in Symposium: A New Look at some Old Sites, Papers from the Symposium Organized by Francis A. Riddell, Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, March 23-26, 1983, San Diego, California. Coyote Press Archives of California Prehistory 6:75-81, 1986.]
- Fishing In Lake Buena Vista, California LIVESTRONG.COM
- [http://www.scahome.org/publications/proceedings/Proceedings.24Barton.pdf THE PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE 2008 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT THE BEAD HILL SITE (KER-450), BUENA VISTA LAKE, CALIFORNIA; AMBER BARTON, MARIA DEL CARMEN GUZMAN, AND BREEANN ROMO, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, BAKERSFIELD]
- {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g58nktQ9w8IC |first=Margaret Aseman Cooper |last=Zonlight |title=Land, water, and settlement in Kern County, California, 1850-1890 |publisher=Arno Press Inc. |year=1979 |ISBN=9780405113284}}
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Category:Former lakes of the United States
Category:Lakes of Kern County, California
Category:Tulare Basin watershed
Category:Endorheic lakes of California
Category:Geography of the San Joaquin Valley
Category:History of the San Joaquin Valley