Buena Vista Lake

Former fresh-water lake in Kern County, California

Buena Vista Lake

Buena Vista Lake

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Location| San Joaquin Valley
Kern County, California
Coordinates| 35°11′31″N 119°17′40″W﻿ / ﻿35.19191°N 119.294557°W﻿ / 35.19191; -119.294557
Type| dry lake
Primary inflows| Kern River
Connecting Slough
Basin countries| United States
Surface area| 60 to 150 square miles (160 to 390 km2)
Average depth| 3.3 m (11 ft)
Surface elevation| 88 m (289 ft)
References| [1]

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.

Today Lake Webb and Lake Evans occupy the lakebed on the northern shore of the former Buena Vista Lake.[2]

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.

* Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake.

* Aerial views of Buena Vista Lake.

## Tulamniu Indian Site

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Tulamniu Indian Site

A Buena Vista Yokuts - Tulamniu Indian

Location| Marker is at Block House #BV4 North of Buena Vista Pumping Station

California Historical Landmark

Official name| Tulamniu Indian Site
Designated| September 6, 1941
Reference no.| 374

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.[3][4]

## See also

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* List of lakes in California
* California Historical Landmarks in Kern County
* California Historical Landmark

## References

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1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Buena Vista Lake
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
3. ^ californiahistoricallandmarks.com Landmark chl-374
4. ^ Cal California parks Historical Landmarks

## External links

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* 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
* 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
* Zonlight, Margaret Aseman Cooper (1979). Land, water, and settlement in Kern County, California, 1850-1890. Arno Press Inc. ISBN 9780405113284.

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