Tulelake, CA - Pop. 1,000
N 41° 57.494 W 121° 28.520
10T E 626353 N 4646263
Tulelake is located just south of the Oregon border.
Waymark Code: WMMVW5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 11/11/2014
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From Wikipedia:
Tulelake is a city in Siskiyou County, California, United States, at an elevation of 4,066 feet (1,239 m) above sea level. The town is named after nearby Tule Lake. The population was 1,010 at the 2010 census, down from 1,020 at the 2000 census.
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Two World War II internment camps were located near Tulelake. The Tulelake camp was an Italian and German prisoner-of-war camp to the east of town, located on Hill Road along Sheepy Ridge. Sheepy Ridge, also referred to as Gillems Bluff, is a small range adjacent to Tule Lake. The other internment camp housed nearly 18,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese alien residents and was in operation from May 1942 to March 1946. The Tule Lake War Relocation Center was one of ten Japanese internment camps in the United States. It was located approximately seven miles southeast of Tulelake. Today the western portion of the camp is occupied by the townsite of Newell.
A goose and duck processing business and pillow factory in Tulelake was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's series 'Dirty Jobs'.
Mark Twain nicknamed his 2 year old girl 'Modoc' due to her tantrums and was referring to an incident in 1852 near Tule Lake, CA where that tribe destroyed an entire wagon train.