POPULATION: 479,977

INCORPORATION DATE: 1852

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: 

• District 1 – Larry Micari
• District 2 – Peter Vander Poel
• District 3 – Amy Shuklian
• District 4 – Eddie Valero
• District 5 – Dennis Townsend

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

TULARE. County seat, Visalia. Created April 20, 1852. Commandante 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 derives its name. The root of the name Tulare is found in the Mexican word tullin, designating cattail or similar reeds.