Tulare County Superior Court
The Superior Court of California, County of Tulare (), also known as the Tulare County Superior Court, is the branch of the California superior court with jurisdiction over Tulare County. History Tulare County was formed in 1852 from parts of Mariposa County. The first Tulare County Courthouse was a small log cabin "surrounded by a cheap fence" in the county seat of Visalia, California. The fence enclosed the county jail, which was five tree stumps with attached iron rings; prisoners were chained to the rings for security, and county officials stored records "in their hats and pockets." E. Jacobs described Visalia as "a weak and primitive settlement". A more permanent courthouse and jail were erected after a March 1854 County Board of Supervisors meeting. The second county courthouse was built in 1859, a two-story brick structure with a basement and a footprint of . The state legislature authorized the county to issue bonds to build a new courthouse in 1875. However, since the S ...
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Tulare County, California
Tulare County ( ) is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia, California, Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. Drained for agricultural development, the site is now in Kings County, California, Kings County, which was created in 1893 from the western portion of the formerly larger Tulare County. Tulare County comprises the Visalia-Porterville, California, Porterville, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is located south of Fresno, California, Fresno, spanning from the San Joaquin Valley east to the Sierra Nevada. Sequoia National Park is located in the county, as is part of Kings Canyon National Park, in its northeast corner (shared with Fresno County, California, Fresno County), and part of Mount Whitney, on its eastern border (shared with Inyo County, California, Iny ...
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