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Tule is a plant (Schoenoplectus acutus) of the sedge family.
Geography
editTule may also refer to the following places in the United States:
Arizona:
- Tule Desert or Tule Basin, in Coconino County
- Tule Mountains, in Yuma County
California:
- Los Tules, a populated place in San Diego County
- Tule Creek, California, a stream that roughly parallels the first few miles of California State Route 371
- Tule Valley, California, in Riverside County (originally Round Valley)
- Tule Lake Basin, in Modoc County, near the 42nd parallel north
- Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, an open water/croplands preserve of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
- Tule Lake War Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp of World War II
- Tulelake, California, a city in Siskiyou County and namesake of the Tulelake Basin Joint Unified School District & Tulelake Municipal Airport
- Tule River, in Tulare County, which was named for the Spanish tulare, the place of tules (English: rushes).[verification needed]
Colorado:
- Tule Lakes, twin reservoirs separated by the Upper Tule Lake Dam in Arapahoe County
Montana:
- Tule Valley (Montana), the course of Tule Creek in Roosevelt County
Nevada:
- Tule Desert (Nevada), in Lincoln County
- Tule Springs, a series of lakes in the Mojave Desert
- Tule Springs Archaeological Site, a National Register of Historic Places listing in Clark County, Nevada
- Tule Springs Ice Age Park, fossil beds which the Protectors of Tule Springs Wash lobby to be a national monument
- Tule Springs Ranch, a National Register of Historic Places listings in Nevada partly in the archaeological site
- Tule Springs Hills, a mountain range in Lincoln County
- Tule Valley (Nevada), on Pine Creek, Elko County
New Mexico:
Oregon:
Texas:
- Tule Canyon, a scenic area near Texas State Highway 207.
- Tule Formation, the paleontological location of an extinct horse species (Equus francisci)
- Tule Creek, a river with the Mckenzie Dam/Reservoir, which is in Briscoe County
- Tule Lake Turning Basin, in Nueces County
- Tule Pens, a road intersection in Briscoe County
Utah:
- Tule Valley, Utah, an area of several valleys in the Great Salt Lake subregion
- Tule Valley (basin), in Millard County and the area of a desiccated paleolake
Washington:
- Tule Lake (Washington), in Whitman County (46°52′57″N 122°26′00″W / 46.88243°N 122.433357°W)
Other uses
edit- Tule fog, a weather phenomenon of California's Central Valley
- Guna people, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, sometimes formerly called "Tule Indians"