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Tule is a plant (Schoenoplectus acutus) of the sedge family.

Geography

Tule 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).
  • Tule River Indian Tribe of the Tule River Reservation

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:

• Little Tule Lake, in Curry County

Oregon:

• Tule Lake Valley, in Klamath County

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 / 46.88243; -122.433357 (Tule Lake, Washington))

Other uses

• Tule fog, a weather phenomenon of California's Central Valley
• Guna people, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, sometimes formerly called "Tule Indians"

• Place name disambiguation pages