Tulare Lake as seen from an earth-orbiting satellite on Feb. 1, 2023, left, and on April 30, 2023, showing the increased flooding of the formerly dry lakebed from winter storms and spring snowmelt ...

These satellite images from NASA show the farmland west of Corcoran, a town of around 22,000, before and after flooding. In 1983, a record-setting year of rain, Tulare Lake reached its most recent ...

An aerial view of floodwaters inundating farmland in the reemerging Tulare Lake, in California’s Central Valley, on April 26, 2023 near Corcoran, California. An aerial view of floodwaters ...

Satellite images taken over the past six weeks have captured the re-emergence of Tulare Lake in California’s San Joaquin Valley and show how suddenly water flooded and settled across miles of ...

Tulare Lake used to be the largest lake west of the Mississippi River. Farmers diverted the lake's water in the 1920s and replaced it with farmland. This year's rain and snowmelt have replenished ...

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. -- New satellite images from the NASA Earth Observatory show that Tulare Lake is still growing in Kings County. The pictures show the progression of the flooding between March ...

RELATED: Growing Tulare Lake captured in NASA satellite images Over the last several months, the once dried-up land has filled with about 178 square miles of water from four Central Valley rivers.

An aerial view of Tulare Lake, where the Kings and Tule rivers meet in the basin, is shown in this 1983 file photo during a heavy flood year. Until the late 1800s, Tulare Lake was the largest ...