Browns Island (Contra Costa County)

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An aerial photo of Browns Island (on the left). Winter Island is on the right of the image, and Antioch is on the bottom.
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Browns Island
Geography
Location Suisun Bay
Coordinates 38°02′20″N121°51′53″W / 38.03881°N 121.86468°W / 38.03881; -121.86468 Coordinates: 38°02′20″N121°51′53″W / 38.03881°N 121.86468°W / 38.03881; -121.86468
Area595 acres (241 ha)
Highest elevation0 m (0 ft) [1]
Administration
United States
U.S. state California
County Contra Costa County
City Pittsburg
Demographics
Population0

Browns Island (also Gwin Island or Brown Island) [1] is a regional preserve of the East Bay Regional Park District (EBRPD) in Pittsburg, Contra Costa County, California, United States. It is an island in Suisun Bay, part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, [lower-alpha 1] separated from Pittsburg by New York Slough.

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The 595-acre (241 ha) [3] island is separated from Winter Island to the east by Middle Slough, and bounded by New York Slough on the south and Suisun Bay on the west and northwest. It is shown, labeled "Gwin 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]


The East Bay Regional Park District has published a guide to the wild plants that grow on this island. [6] The island is home to six rare and endangered plant species, and a variety of aquatic birds. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Browns Island". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
  2. "Browns Island." East Bay Regional Parks. Accessed September 5, 2018.
  3. "Browns Island". East Bay Regional Parks District . Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  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. 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. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  6. "Brown's Island Wildflowers." East Bay Regional Park System. February 23, 2007. Accessed September 5, 2018.

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Notes

  1. Browns Island is at the confluence of these two rivers. [2]