Spinner Island

Spinner Island is an island in Suisun Bay, an embayment of San Francisco Bay, downstream of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.[2] It is part of Solano County, California, and not managed by any reclamation district.[3] Its coordinates are 38°04′11″N 121°52′10″W[1], and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 0 ft (0 m) in 1981.[1] It is shown (but not labeled) in an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold,[4] as well as an 1854 map of the area by Henry Lange.[5]

Spinner Island
Aerial image of an island.
USGS aerial imagery of Spinner Island. Van Sickle Island can be seen to the southwest.
Spinner Island is located in Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
Spinner Island
Spinner Island
Spinner Island is located in California
Spinner Island
Spinner Island
Spinner Island is located in the United States
Spinner Island
Spinner Island
Geography
LocationNorthern California
Coordinates38°04′11″N 121°52′10″W[1]
Adjacent toSacramento–San Joaquin River Delta
Highest elevation0 ft (0 m)[1]
Administration
United States
State California
CountySolano
Spinner Island viewed from the south, in an aerial photo taken in 2015

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spinner Island
  2. Mathias Gafni (January 12, 2017). "Bay Area flooding: Multiple Delta levee breaches reported". Mercury News.
  3. "Municipal Service Review: Solano County Water, Irrigation, Reclamation, and Flood Management Agencies" (PDF). Solano County LAFCO. Michael Brandman Associates. 13 April 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  4. Ringgold, Cadwalader; Stuart, Fred D.; Everett, Chas.; Harrison (1850). "General Chart embracing Surveys of the Farallones Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, Straits of Carquines and Suisun Bay, and the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, to the Cities of Sacramento and San Joaquin, California". David Rumsey Map Collection. San Francisco Common Council. Archived from the original on 7 July 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  5. Lange, Henry (1854). "Bai San Francisco und Vereinigung des Sacramento mit dem San Joaquin". David Rumsey Map Collection. George Westermann. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
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