The Great Flood of 1862 that took place primarily in the Lehigh Valley that spring would take hundreds of lives and destroyed many businesses. Early in the spring of 1862 things were looking ...

The North Fork of the American River at Auburn rose thirty-five feet, and in many other mountain streams the rise was almost as great. On the 9th the flood reached the low land of the Sacramento ...

when the state suffered from the “Great Flood of 1862,” according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ARkStorm event would draw heat and moisture from the Pacific Ocean, which then creates a ...