Mt iPads photo stream is using space on my iPad

The photo stream is taking up about 400 MB on my iPad, however there are no photos on the iPad it's self or in the photo stream. I have tried turning off my iPad all the way and turning it back on, I have tried turning off photo stream in the iCloud preferences and I have even tried to delete my whole iCloud account from my iPad temporarily, and it is still taking up about 400 MB of space on the iPad. This really annoys me because I only have 16 GB of memory on it and as you all know about 2.5 GB of that is taken up by iOS. Does anyone know why this is happening?

Hello Phildebeldorado,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
If you are missing the My Photo Stream album on your iPad, then you may have the iCloud Photo Library beta enabled.  When you enable this option, it removes the Camera Roll and My Photo Stream albums from your device.
iCloud: Set up My Photo Stream
Get help finding your Photos in iOS 8 or later - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

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