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Tulare ( tuu-LAIR-ee) is a city in Tulare County, California. The population was 68,875 at the 2020 census. It is located in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley, eight miles south of Visalia and sixty miles north of Bakersfield. The city is named for the Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes.

The English name Tulare derives ultimately from Classical Nahuatl tōllin, “sedge” or “reeds”, by exaggeration of Spanish tule, which as well as exists in English as a loanword. The publicize is cognate later than Tula, Tultepec, and Tultitlán de Mariano Escobedo.

The Yokuts people built reed boats and fished in what was higher to be called Tulare Lake in their homeland for centuries, until the attack and pact by the Spanish and American pioneers. When California became a welcome in 1850, Tulare did not yet exist as a town. Tulare was founded in 1872, by the Southern Pacific Railroad. The town was named for Lake Tulare. The lake had been named for the tule hurry plant (Schoenoplectus acutus) (pictured left), a species of bulrush that predominantly lined the marshes and sloughs of its shore.