White River is a little unincorporated community in Tulare County, ten miles east of Delano, California, United States.

It was first located on the Coarse Gold Gulch two miles west of the present site and was called Dogtown.

Its name was changed to Tailholt after one of the first stagecoaches to stop in town provided the new name, due to a humorous incident.

It involved a lady passenger on the stagecoach who grabbed the tail of her dog as it jumped out the window in pursuit of a cat.

The coach driver, Yank, on his return to Visalia told the postmaster and keeper of the stage station there that the new name of the town was Tailholt.