Editing Tulelake, California (section)

==History==
The first public auction of Tulelake land parcels took place on April 15, 1931. Over 100 lots were sold for prices ranging from $65 to $350. In 1937, the city was incorporated. Today there are over 400 housing units.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tulelake, California and the Tule Lake Basin |url=https://anderstomlinson.com/tule-lake/ |access-date=April 10, 2023 |website=anderstomlinson.com}}</ref>

Two [[World War II]] [[Internment|internment camp]]s were located near Tulelake. [[Camp Tulelake]] was an Italian and [[Germany|German]] [[prisoner-of-war camp]] to the west of town, located on Hill Road along Sheepy Ridge.  Also referred to as Gillems Bluff, Sheepy Ridge is a small range adjacent to Tule Lake.  The other internment camp housed nearly 18,000 [[Japanese American]]s and Japanese alien residents and was in operation from May 1942 to March 1946.  The [[Tule Lake War Relocation Center]] was one of ten [[Japanese American internment|Japanese internment camp]]s in the United States.  It was located approximately seven miles southeast of Tulelake. Today the western portion of the camp is occupied by the townsite of [[Newell, California|Newell]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |title=Tule Lake National Monument (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/tule/index.htm |access-date=April 10, 2023 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>

[[Archeological Site 4-SK-4|Nightfire Island]], an archeological site over 5000 years old, is west of Tule Lake along the shores of [[Indian Tom Lake]].