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Floodwater
flows past a discarded boot in San Jose during the Bay Area storm, February 20, 2017
Courtesy San Francisco Chronicle; photo: Scott Strazzante
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Since
Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday, August 25, 2017, we have
seen an overwhelming array of images of the unrelenting rain and floods that have
made the region home to terror, devastation, and despair.
Today we
recall some of California’s major floods since our statehood began
January 1850: Sacramento
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Detail,
View of Sacramento City as it appeared
during the great inundation in January 1850
Drawn by nature by Geo. W. Casilear &
Henry Bainbridge (New York: Litho. of Sarony, c. 1850)
Courtesy, California State Library
1907: Oroville
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Flooded streets
in Oroville, 1907
California State Library
February–March, 1938:
Los Angeles
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Flooding at West 43rd
Place near Leimert Boulevard, Los Angeles, 1938
1964: Northern
California
Oroville Dam during
the Northern California flood, Dec. 23, 1964
California Department of Water Resources; photo: Bob
Mortensen
1997: Northern California
Detail, Flooded homes in
Olivehurst, January 3, 1997
San Francisco Chronicle; photo: Vince Maggiora
Shelly Kale
Publications and Strategic Projects
Manager
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Read more about California floods on
the CHS blog:
http://californiahistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2016/02/el-nino-for-president.html: El
Nino for President! by Alison Moore
http://californiahistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2016/10/new-river-los-angeles.html: New River, Los Angeles, by Shelly
Kale
http://californiahistoricalsociety.blogspot.com/2016/02/historically-speaking-cycles-of-drought.html: Cycles of Drought and Flood, by
Shelly Kale
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