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Tulare County is a county located in the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California, south of Fresno. Sequoia National Park
is located in the county. As of 2000 the
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population was 368,021. Its county seat is Visalia.Tulare County was formed from parts of Mariposa County in 1852. Parts of the county's territory were given to
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Fresno County in 1856, to Kern County in 1866, to Inyo County in 1866 and to Kings County in 1893.
Commandante Pedro Fages, while hunting for deserters in 1772, discovered a great lake surrounded by marshes and filled with rushes which he named Los Tules (the tules). It is from this lake that the county
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derives its name. The root of the name Tulare is found in the Mexican word tullin, designating cattail or similar reeds.
Tulare County bears the unfortunate distinction of being the one of the most impoverished counties in California[1], despite its proximity to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Milk brings in the most revenue for the county , typically more than US$1 billion a year annually. Oranges,
grapes, and other cattle-related commodities also bring in hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
In 2001, Tulare became the most productive county in the U.S. in terms of agricultural revenues at US$3.5 billion
annually, surpassing Fresno County's US$3.2 billion, which held the spot for over two decades.
Due to the importance of agriculture in the county as well as its location in the state, the city of Tulare (in Tulare County) has been the home of the annual World Ag Expo [2], the world's largest agricultural exposition, since 1968.