On Jan. 18, 1862, the flood hurled a churning wall of water and boulders through the San Gabriel Canyon and swept away the entire mining community of Eldoradoville and all of its mining works.

The deadly 1862 California flood that wiped out and reshaped the state By Katie Dowd , Managing editor Jan 11, 2022 An illustrated view of Sacramento's K Street during catastrophic flooding in ...

REFERENCE: For the best detailed account of the California 1861-1862 flood event see the article in Weatherwise magazine by Jan Null and Joelle Hulbert, volume 60 no. 1, January-February, 2007. Flood ...

New research suggests climate change increases the likelihood of a massive California "megaflood," akin to the Great Flood of 1862. That disaster, brought on by more than 40 days of constant rain ...

The Great Flood of 1862 began in late November ... were virtually wiped off the map. ... to determine the effects of a rain event similar to the 1861-62 flood on modern California.

When the rain began drenching the California landscape in December 1861, none of the state’s 500,000 residents could have imagined the devastation that was about to strike the region. Just a few ...