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Tulare  County

California, USA

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     Tulare County is located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, south of Fresno. Sequoia National Park is located in the county, as are part of Kings Canyon National Park, in its northeast corner (shared with Fresno County), and part of Mount Whitney, on its eastern border (shared with Inyo County). As of the 2010 census, the population was 442,179, up from 368,021 at the 2000 census. Its county seat is Visalia.

     The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes.  Drained for agricultural development, the site is now in Kings County, which was created in 1893 from the western portion of the formerly larger Tulare County.  Americans formed Tulare County from parts of Mariposa County in 1852. Parts of the county's territory were given to Fresno County in 1856, to Kern County and to Inyo County in 1866 and to Kings County in 1893.

     The following counties lie adjacent to Tulare: Fresno County – north; Inyo County – east; Kern County – south; and Kings County – west.

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The following are names of persons, found within our databases as having been either born, married or died in this location. Names in dark red denote direct ancestral lines. To find out more about each surname listed click on the corresponding Link.

McVicker; Moreland; Pinnell; Scruggs and allied families  (MMPS)

Arnold;   Bailey;   Cotton;   Della;   Dovel;   Fay;   Fly;   Gilligan;   Gross;   Halbert;   Harper;   Hildebrand;   Hoskins;   Huhtala;   Johnson;   McNutt;   McVicker;   Montgomery;   Moreland;   Parsons;   Peyton;   Pinnell;   Rhodes;   Saak;   Schockley;   Scruggs;   Simpson;   Tipton

Bozarth; Peiffer; Quigley; Rhubart and allied families (BPQR)

 

Dellinger; Knecht; Pfeffer; Silar and allied families  (DKPS)

Click on this link to find out more about each surname listed above as well as other surnames found within our three family databases.

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Family History Notes

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Family History Notes

It was in Tulare County where the various branches of our maternal family line finally settled after almost 200 years of migration from the east coast of the American Continent.

     Our Rhodes ancestors William C. and Sarah (Douglass) Rhodes were the first to make their home here.  By 1860 they were living  near the present site of Farmersville. William purchased 40 acres of land in Tulare county on June 25, 1860 and another 40 acres on August 11th of that year.  Although William listed his occupation as a carpenter in the 1860 census it is known that he was also engaged in farming.     He later continued to work as a stockman raising cattle and sheep.  In August of 1865 William and his son William Robert Rhodes were attacked and severely injured by a grizzly bear while herding sheep in the Yokoli Valley located about 30 miles north of Porterville. 

     Soon after the Civil War Albea Scruggs left Virginia and eventually settled in Tulare County California.  There he married Julia Rhodes Turner in 1875.  Albea fathered a total of nine children (7 boys and 2 girls).  The next year, 1876, he purchased his ranch located about 6 1/2 miles west of Porterville, California,   from a railroad company and began to make improvements; while at the same time followed grain farming as well as the raising of stock. 

     William B. Pinnell and his family moved on to California and settled in Tule River Township in Tulare County sometime between 1892 and 1895.   It is most probable that  his nephews Guy Moreland and his brother John Earl left Oklahoma and moved on to that part of California sometime between 1907 and 1909.  John Earl aged 20 years old is found in the Tulare County, California census of 1910.  By 1920 Mary Etta (Pinnell) Moreland, mother of the aforementioned Guy and John Earl, and son Jeremiah Floyd Moreland were living in California near her brother William B. Pinnell and his family who were living in the Tule River Township area of Tulare County.  John Earl is known to have been residing in Tulare County as early as 1917 as he was then living a home he had purchased at 442 S. G Street in Porterville. 

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Deep Creek Cemetery;   Farmersville;   Hillcrest Cemetery;   Home of Peace Cemetery;   Plano;   Poplar;   Porterville;   Porterville Cemetery;      Terra Bella;   Tipton;

Vandalia Cemetery;   Woodville;   Woodville Cemetery

Deep Creek Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map:  36.317381,-119.197025

Directions: Located north of Farmersville and south of Mitchell's Corner.  28962-28994 Road 168, Exeter, CA 93221 (559-592-3067)

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: John and Elizabeth (Turner) Fly the parents of Sarah (Fly) Rhodes are buried at Deep Creek Cemetery.  

INTERNET WEB LINK(S):  Tulare County Cemetery Index;  Tulare County Cemetery Records;

Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare County

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Farmersville

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.301111, -119.2075

Directions:  Farmersville: From Visalia, Total Est. Time:  11 minutes, Total Est. Distance: 7.40 miles

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:.  Farmersville is a suburb of Visalia, in Tulare County. The population was 10,588 at the 2010 census.  The first history of the Farmersville area was in the 1850s. There was a community developed called Deep Creek. It is located near the present Deep Creek Cemetery and there are headstones that date back to the 1850s. There was a school built there to accommodate the farm children in the area. The Fly family history, which is preserved in a book written about their travels to California, there is talk about attending the Deep Creek School in the 1860s.

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:    William and Sarah (Douglass) Rhodes settled here upon coming to Tulare county in 1860.  It is most probable that Tennesse, Martha, Samuel, Nancy, Hugh and Ora were all born here between 1862 and 1873.  Two children of their eldest son Thomas, Richard, and Clara, were born here prior to Thomas and Sarah (Fly) Rhodes departure for Bakersfield around 1876. The Yokohl Valley where the family pastured their sheep lies due west of here, see map at Image Gallery.

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Hillcrest Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.0650195, -118.9907311

Directions: Located at 1013 East Olive Street, near Porterville Cemetery and Home of Peace Cemetery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Hillcrest Cemetery, was established in 1930 and is known for its park like effect as the lawns are smooth and unbroken, all of the headstones are sunken.

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Ben R. Della;  Harold E. McVicker;  Harry C. Scruggs;  Nellie E. Wilson;  Nona B. McCutcheon;  Ralph E. Pinnell;  William E. McVicker

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare County   Hillcrest Cemetery (A-G);   Hillcrest Cemetery (H-O);   Hillcrest Cemetery (P-Z);   Tulare County Cemetery Index;   

Tulare County Cemetery Records; 

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Home of Peace Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.06543, -118.99566

Directions: Located on East Olive Street, near Porterville Cemetery and Hillcrest Cemetery

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:  The Home of Peace Cemetery, was established in 1908 and is known for the number of ornate monuments it contains.

 

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Edith L. Dovel (Edith L. Roberts);  Edward D. Halbert;  John H. McVicker;  Lillie A. Doyle;  Lunsford S. Pinnell;  Martha E. Rhodes;  Mary E. Pinnell;  Maude M. McMahan;  Moses B. McVicker;  Richard H. McVicker;  Roy D. Halbert;  Samuel R. Scruggs

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Interments at Home of Peace Cemetery;  Home of Peace Cemetery;   

Tulare County Cemetery Index;  Tulare Co. Cemetery Records;  Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare Co.

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Plano

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.044, -119.008

Directions:  From Visalia;  Total Est. Time:  43 minutes; Total Est. Distance: 32.87 miles. Plano is located south of Porterville, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Plano lies just southeast of Porterville.  It is noted as a township in early 20th century census documents.  Today it may be a part of the East Porterville census district.  Our ancestors for appear here in the last decade of the 19th century. 

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: In the 1900 census Plano is named as the location of the farms of Martha Ellen (Rhodes) and her husband  Edwin D. Halbert, and that of her sister Tennessee B. (Rhodes) and her husband Spencer Fay.  Also found here in 1900 is the John R. and Mary Ella (Johnson) McVicker Family.  Their daughter Nevada “Neva” was born here in 1897.  John’s brother Moses also lived in Plano until his death in 1919.

It appears that John Earl Moreland resided here in 1910. This may have been the location to which he came after leaving coming to California from Woodward County, Oklahoma. He is listed as Earl in a single man working as a hired man in the household of Jacob Garver. 

In the 1900 census John E. and Minnie (McVicker) Scruggs are listed on the same page with Minnie's parents John and Mary McVicker in the Poplar/Plano area of Tulare County.  John and Minnie may have been living on the McVicker farm at this time or they may have been living on the next farm.  John and his family are also listed in the 1910 census as living in Plano Township.

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Poplar

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map:  36.053889, -119.144722

Directions: From Visalia;  Total Est. Time: 38 minutes; Total Est. Distance: 28.10 miles, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Poplar-Cotton Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 1,496 at the 2000 census.

Pleasantville School (1951)

Poplar Market

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   The Albea E. Scruggs homestead, as noted on the 1892 map at the right,  was located about 9 miles west of Porterville, California, near the town of Poplar.    In 1876, he purchased his ranch from a railroad company and began to make improvements; while at the same time followed grain farming as well as the raising of stock.       In 1892 he began setting out an orchard of prunes, pears, and peaches being one of the first in the area to devote land to this purpose.  By 1905 Albea owned 400 acres of land on section 28 and 33, township 21, range 26.  Of this land 150 acres was devoted to the cultivation of alfalfa, and 25 acres in an orchard.  He also maintained a dairy that was noted locally for the excellence of its products.      The entire property was under irrigation by the Woods Central Irrigation  Company   of   which  he  was  a director.   At another location, on the plains, he  farmed 480 acres in grain.

Ross McVicker, Pearl and Harry Scruggs attended the Pleasantview elementary school in Poplar.  Ora Rhodes, the youngest child born to William and Sarah Douglass Rhodes, was born, 13 January 1873, on a farm about five miles west of Porterville near the area now known as Cotton Center.

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Porterville

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.068611, -119.0275

Directions: From Visalia; Total Est. Time: 42 minutes; Total Est. Distance: 30.77 miles, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:      Porterville is a city in Tulare County, California, United States.    The City has grown from a community of 5,000 persons in 1920 to 51,467 at the 2007 census. The city's population grew dramatically as the city annexed many properties and unincorporated areas in and around Porterville.

Porterville Union High School (1920)

 

Mountains and foothills east of Porterville

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   After Albea E. Scruggs died in 1906 his widow Julia moved to 504 Mill Street, Porterville where she passed away in 1922. Minnie (McVicker) Scruggs passed away here in 1920.  Around 1917 Jerre’ F. and his mother Mary Etta (Pinnell) Moreland moved to Porterville and lived in rented house on 212 G Street.  Jerre’ and his future wife Ella Pearl Scruggs graduation from Proterville High School in 1920.  In 1929 Mary was living at 926 North 3rd St. in Porterville.  Mary passed away in Porterville, California on April 28, 1940.   In 1930 Earl and his family were living at 442 S. G Street in Porterville, California.  Ora later became a teacher in Porterville where she taught third and fourth grades in the two-room Mill Street School.  She and her husband George Robbins lived in house at Second and Harrison streets.  George owned and operated the Robbins Drug Store located in the Davis Block on the corner of Main and Mill streets.  By 1910 Tennie and Spencer Fay had moved off their farm and were living in a house at 703 N. Hockett Street in Porterville. 

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): City of Porterville, California;     

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Porterville Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.065ºN,   118.994ºW

Directions: Located on East Olive Street, next to Home of Peace Cemetery and Hillcrest Cemetery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Porterville Cemetery, sometimes called Old Porterville Cemetery, had the first burial in 1878.

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   Albea E. Scruggs;  Benjamin H.". Fay;  Daniel R. Scruggs;  Doris Scruggs;  Edith L. Tipton;  Edward C. Scruggs;  Elvin C. Pinnell;  Hugh E. Scruggs;  Ira C. Moreland;  John E. Scruggs;  John E. Scruggs Jr;  Julia O. Scruggs;  Julia Rhodes;  Lester W. Pinnell;  Louella F. Scruggs;  Margaretta Frechette;  Minnie V. McVicker;  Pearle P. Scruggs

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Porterville Cemetery; Tulare County Cemetery Index; 

Tulare County Cemetery Records;  Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare County

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Terra Bella

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 35.961389, -119.040833

Directions: From Visalia; Total Est. Time: 48 minutes Total Est. Distance: 37.31 miles, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Terra Bella is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 3,466 at the 2000 census.

Zion Lutheran Church

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   Ora (Rhodes) Robbins taught in a school at Salem located south of Terra Bella.  Martha Ellen (Rhodes) Halbert died at Terra Bella on 28 February 1941.

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Terra Bella, California - Wikipedia;  Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and School ~ Terra Bella, CA

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Tipton

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36°3′33″N,    119°18′37″W

Directions: From Visalia; Total Est. Time: 29 minutes Total Est. Distance: 27.63 miles, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Tipton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 1,790 at the 2000 census.

Tipton Water Tower

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   Albea E. Scruggs is listed in the 1900 census as living in Tipton Township.  In the 1900 census Charles Harper his wife Ann (Rhodes) and family are listed as living in Tipton.  His occupation is listed as being a stock rancher.

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Tipton, California - Wikipedia; 

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Vandalia Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.038ºN,   119.004ºW

Directions: From Porterville take Plano Street south through Plano turn left on Avenue 136.  Cemetery is on the left.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: John R. McVicker;  Lester E. Pinnell; 

Mary E. Johnson;

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Tulare County Cemetery Index;  Tulare County Cemetery Records;

Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare County

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Woodville

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 360537N  1191156W

Directions: From Visalia, Total Est. Time: 31 minutes, Total Est. Distance: 21.87 miles, see driving map at Image Gallery.

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE: Woodville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. The population was 1,678 at the 2000 census.

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   Albea E. Scruggs listed in the 1890 Great Register as a resident of Woodville Precinct.   

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Woodville Cemetery

LOCATION:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Erioll_world.svg/18px-Erioll_world.svg.png  Country: United States;  State: California;  County: Tulare;  Coordinates/Map: 36.094132, -119.187267

Directions: 17203 Avenue 168, Woodville, CA 93527 (559-688-9165)

DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE:

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ANCESTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE:   Anna H. (Rhodes) Harper is buried at the Woodville Cemetery.

INTERNET WEB LINK(S): Woodville Cemetery (Find A Grave);  Woodville Cemetery (USGENWEB Archives);   Tulare County Cemetery Index;  Tulare County Cemetery Records; 

Tombstone Transcription Project: Tulare County

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The list below will assist in your research regarding the matching of your ancestor’s birth, marriage, death dates and the place(s) within this locality at which these events may have occurred.

 

US Home Town Locator

Profiles for  178 cities, towns and other populated places in Tulare County, California

Map of Tulare County California

Tulare County Physical, Cultural & Historic Features | Schools

Tulare County ZIP Codes | Area Codes

Tulare County Land - Property, Farms & Ranches

 

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Tulare County, CA, United States

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Links To Populated Places Within This County

Cities, towns, and unincorporated communities

Incorporated cities: Dinuba;  Exeter;  Farmersville;  Lindsay;  Porterville;  Tulare;  Visalia;  Woodlake

Allensworth

Alpaugh

California Hot Springs

Camp Nelson

Cedar Slope

Cutler

Delft Colony

Ducor

Earlimart

East Orosi

East Porterville

East Tulare Villa

El Rancho

Goshen

Hartland

Idlewild

Ivanhoe

Kennedy Meadows

Lemon Cove

Lindcove

Linnell Camp

London

Matheny

McClenney Tract

Monson

Orosi

Panorama Heights

Patterson Tract

Pierpoint

Pine Flat

Pixley

Plainview

Ponderosa

Poplar-Cotton Center

Posey

Poso Park

Richgrove

Rodriguez Camp

Sequoia Crest

Seville

Silver City

Springville

Strathmore

Sugarloaf Mountain Park

Sugarloaf Saw Mill

Sugarloaf Village

Sultana

Terra Bella

Teviston

Three Rivers

Tipton

Tonyville

Tooleville

Traver

Waukena

West Goshen

Wilsonia

Woodville

Yettem

Advance

Angiola

Badger

Balance Rock

Cairns Corner

Calgro

Johnsondale

Kaweah

Rocky Hill

White River

Yokohl Ranch, California

Yokohl Valley

Zante

Tule River Indian Reservation

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Military Installations;  Populated Places, Post Offices, Streams, and Trails

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Historical Changes in the Boundaries of this County

     Conducting genealogical research in the United States requires an understanding of county boundaries.  As the population grew more counties were created to meet the public’s need for localized governments.  This phenomena was common in all states during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.  As such you must be sure that you are not looking for records in the wrong county or state. 

     The web-site for the Atlas of Historical County Boundary Project provides interactive maps for all states. This Atlas is meant to be a resource for people seeking records of past events, and people trying to analyze, interpret and display county-based historical data like Land Records, Probate Records, Court Records, Tax Records, and Vital Records that document birth, death, and marriage.   Listed below are the boundary changes for this county, the dates they occurred, as well as the government statute that decreed the change.  To see actual changes in a mapping format follow this LINK to the Atlas of Historical County Boundary Project .

Tulare County, California: Map(s) and descriptions of Historical Boundary Changes

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 20 Apr 1852 - TULARE created from MARIPOSA.

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19 Apr 1856 - TULARE lost to creation of FREZNO (now FRESNO), gained from MERCED

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21 Mar 1866 - TULARE lost to the creation of INYO.

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01 April 1866 – TULARE lost to the creation of KERN.

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10 Feb 1868 - TULARE lost to KERN

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22 Jan 1870 - TULARE lost to MONO the remnant of territory that was separated from TULARE by the creation of INYO on 22 March 1866.

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01 Jan 1873 - TULARE gained from KERN

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27 Mar 1874 - TULARE exchanged with FRESNO

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23 Mar 1876 - TULARE exchanged with FRESNO

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23 May 1893 - TULARE lost to creation of KINGS.

31 Dec 1986 - TULARE lost small area to FRESNO.

30 Sep 1991 - TULARE exchanged small areas with FRESNO.

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Our “Gen-Tool Kit” has been primarily designed for those researchers who may be traveling to this location to perform on-site studies of their family history, or to just visit some of the interesting historical sites located in the area.  It can be very satisfying to mix research with sightseeing at historical and scenic spots.  Such activity not only gives you an understanding of the land but a needed break from intense research sessions.  When visiting an ancestral county for genealogical research we’ve found that the three most important places to visit are the county courthouse; the county library; and the county historical and/or genealogical societies.  It is also good to plan ahead by contacting any site you intend visiting in order to ascertain where it is and when it will be open.  This is especially true with regard to historical and genealogical societies.  We hope that the following information will provide you with a better idea of what resources are available, within this county, to the family historian.

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 County Records

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Tulare County, California

·         California State Historical Landmarks  Tulare County

·         The Natural Wealth of California, 1868  Tulare County

·         Tulare County  California State Historical Landmarks

·         Tulare County Courthouse  The CA Supreme Court Historical Society

·         Tulare County Historical and Cultural Resources

·         Tulare County Historical Markers

·         Tulare County History 

·         Atwell Mill and Mineral King

·         History of Lake Kaweah, CA

·         History of Lindsay

·         City of Woodlake History 

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Libraries, Museums & Archives

·         List of museums in the San Joaquin Valley

·         Colonel Allensworth State Park

·         Family History Library Holdings

·         PERiodical Source Index Search  Tulare Co., CA

·         Tulare County Libraries

·         Tulare County Museums

·         Tulare Historical Museum

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Maps and Gazetteers

·         Official historical atlas maps of Tulare County, California (1892):  Alila;  Goshen, Grangeville and Fruit Land Colony;  Pioneer Land Co. subdivisions;  Pixley, Dinuba;  Porterville;  T14-15S R.30-31E;  T14-15S R28-29E;  T14-17S R.32-35E;  T15S R25E;  T15S R26E;  T15S R27E;  T16-17S R.30-31E;  T16-17S R28-29E;  T16S R22E;  T16S R23E;  T16S R24E;  T16S R24E;  T16S R25E;  T16S R26E;  T16S R27E;  T17S R21E;  T17S R23E;  T17S R24E;  T17S R25E;  T17S R26E;  T17S R27E;  T18-19S R29-30E;  T18-19S R31-32E;  T18-20S R32-36E;  T18S R23E;  T18S R24E;  T18S R25E;..T18S R25E SE 1/4;..T18S R25E SW 1/4;  T18S R26E;  T18S R27E;  T18S R28E;  T19S R23E;  T19S R24E;  T19S R25E;  T19S R26E;  T19S R27E;  T19S R28E;  T20-21S R30-31E;  T20S R23E;  T20S R24E;  T20S R24E;  T20S R25E;  T20S R26E;  T20S R27E;  T20S R28E;  T20S R29E;  T21-24S R32-35E;  T21-24S R36-37E with Exeter;  T21S R23E;  T21S R24E;  T21S R25E;  T21S R26E;  T21S R27E;  T21S R28E;  T21S R29E;  T22-23S R16-17E;  T22-23S R30-31E;  T22S R22E with Tipton and Springville;  T22S R23E;  T22S R24E;  T22S R25E;  T22S R26E;  T22S R27E;  T22S R28E;  T22S R29E;  T23S R20-21E;  T23S R23E;  T23S R24E;  T23S R25E;  T23S R26E;  T23S R27E;  T23S R28E;  T23S R29E;  T24S R23E;  T24S R24E;  T24S R25E;  T24S R26E;  T24S R27E;  T24S R28E;  T24S R29E;  T24S R30-31E;  Traver, Tulare County with Coe Colony, Kitchener Colony and Traver Colony 

·         Tulare County (1895 U.S. Atlas)

·         Tulare County 1919 - Automobile Road Map

·         Tulare County 1948 Road Map

·         Tulare County 1980 to 1996

·         Tulare County Gazetteer

·         Tulare County Post Offices

·         Tulare County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos

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County Records

Records

·         Tulare County Courthouse (all departments listed below are located here, unless otherwise noted).  Address: 221 South Mooney Blvd, Visalia, CA 93291;  Phone: (559) 730-5000

·         Some early court records from the various courts may have been sent to the California State Archives. Besides court minutes and judgements, these records include tax lists, wills, deeds, estate inventories, and marriage bonds. The California State Archives has microfilm of selected county records, 1850–1919.

·         Tulare County Recorder-Clerk maintains the following records: Birth / Death Records from 1852 / 1873; Marriage Records from 1852; and Land Records from1854.

·         Tulare County Clerk of Superior Court has Probate Records from 1854; and Court Records from 1854 

·         See more information at: http://www.genealogyinc.com/california/tulare-county/#sthash.9IfjAzxN.dpuf

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