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Grand Island (formerly referred to as Taylor Island or La Isla de los Quenensias )
[1] is an island lying between
Sycamore Slough and the
Sacramento River .
[2]
[3] A post office operated at Grand Island from 1854 to 1919.
[2] It is shown, labeled "Taylor Island", on an 1850 survey map of the
San Francisco Bay area made by
Cadwalader Ringgold
[4] and an 1854 map of the area by
Henry Lange .
[5]
Grand Island is located in
Sacramento County, California at
38°14′08″N 121°34′45″W / 38.23556°N 121.57917°W / 38.23556; -121.57917 ,
[1] and managed by
Reclamation District 3.
[6]
References
^
a
b
c
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Grand Island (California)
^
a
b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State . Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 492.
ISBN
1-884995-14-4 .
^
"Swamp Land Commissioners" . The Daily Bee . Sacramento, California. 1861-07-26. p. 2.
^ 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. Retrieved 25 February 2021 .
^ Lange, Henry (1854).
"Bai San Francisco und Vereinigung des Sacramento mit dem San Joaquin" . David Rumsey Map Collection . George Westermann. Retrieved 25 February 2021 .
^
"Sacramento County, California Reclamation Districts" (PDF) . Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission. August 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2021 .
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