Question

What year did the people leave the Dust Bowl and how many people left like the people and the farmers exactly how many of them?

Answer 1

People left the Dust Bowl by 1940, 2.5 million people had left the Plains states: of those, 200,000 moved to California. 40% of the population dropped with 1,642 small farmers and their families pulling up stakes.

Answer 2

In the 1930s, farmers from the Midwestern Dust Bowl states, especially Oklahoma and Arkansas, began to move to California. As well as  250,000 arrived by 1940, including a third which moved into the San Joaquin Valley. That at that time had a population of 540,000 in 1930. During the 1930s, some 2.5 million people left the Plains states