Tamarack, California Explained

Tamarack
Settlement Type:	Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:	California#USA
Pushpin Label Position:	bottom
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in California
Pushpin Image:	California Locator Map with US.PNG
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	United States
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	California
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Calaveras County
Coordinates:	38.4389°N -120.0761°W

Tamarack, formerly known as Camp Tamarack, is an unincorporated community in Calaveras County, California in the United States. It was founded in the 1920s. A nearby weather station, located across the Alpine County line, has been the site of several United States meteorological records.

Tamarack is located at an elevation of,^{[1] [3]} Tamarack also holds the record for greatest seasonal snowfall in California: during the winter of 1906−1907, it received of snow.^{[1] [3] [4]}

Tamarack has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dsc) with mild to warm summers coupled with chilly nights and moderately cold winter days with frigid nights and extremely heavy annual snowfall averaging .

Notes and References

1. Christopher C. Burt, Extreme Weather: A Guide & Record Book, page 77: "...the deepest snow depth ever recorded in North America, belongs to Tamarack, California. Here, not far from the Kirkwood Ski Resort, 390ʺ fell in January 1911. This led to a level snow depth of 451ʺ (37.5 feet) by March of that year. Tamarack also holds California's greatest seasonal catch on 884ʺ in the notoriously wet winter of 1906-1907."
2. on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada near Bear Valley and south of South Lake Tahoe.

   Climate

   The Tamarack weather station was located at an elevation of ("upon the Summit" according to the first observer) and operated by PG&E employees from 1903 to 1948; its exact location is uncertain, but it is believed to have been located between Lower Blue Lake and Tamarack Lake, approximately 11 miles southeast of Kirkwood Ski Resort. Here, the greatest snow depth ever recorded was measured at the Tamarack station: in January 1911, of snow fell, leading to a snow depth in March of .^[1]

3. http://www.sierranevadavirtualmuseum.com/docs/galleries/nathist/weather/snowfall.htm Sierra Nevada Virtual Museum
4. Charles Nevers Holmes, In New York City Were the Snowiest Place, in Tychos (1920), page 20: "And, at Tamarack, California, about a mile and one-half above sea level, there was a record of a snowfall of 73 1/2 feet which fell during the winter of 1906-1907. Now, a snowfall of 73 1/2 feet, of 883 inches, is certainly considerable..."