Simms Island

{{short description|Island in California}}

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| name = Simms Island

| image = File:Simms Island, 2023-03-07.jpg

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| image_caption = The former location of Simms Island in March 2023.

| image_alt = A photo of an intersection with several cars at a red light.

| pushpin_map = United States San Francisco Bay Area#USA California#USA

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| coordinates ={{coord|37|57|33|N|122|30|18|W|region:US-CA_source:gnis-233161|display=it|name=Simms Island|notes=}}

| location = Northern California

| waterbody = San Francisco Bay

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| elevation_ft = 13

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| country = United States

| country_admin_divisions_title = State

| country_admin_divisions = {{flag|California}}

| country_admin_divisions_title_1 = County

| country_admin_divisions_1 = Marin

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Simms Island is a former marsh island in San Francisco Bay. It is in Marin County, California; Its coordinates are {{coord|37|57|33|N|122|30|18|W|region:US-CA_source:gnis-233161|display=inline|name=Simms Island|notes=}}, and the United States Geological Survey (USGS) gave its elevation as {{cvt|13|ft|m}} in 1981. It appears as an island on a USGS map in 1897; it is labeled in a 1954 map, but fully connected to the mainland.

Simms Island, USGS, 1897.png|USGS survey map from 1897.

Simms Island, USGS, 1954.png|USGS survey map from 1954.

NASA Worldwind, USGS imagery map, Simms Island, California.png|USGS aerial imagery from 2021.

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{{cite news

| url = https://www.newspapers.com/clip/85572199/neighborhood-news/

| date = 1890-12-17

| page = 2

| title = Neighborhood News

| newspaper = The Petaluma Courier

| location = Petaluma, California

}}

{{cite web

| url = https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#15/37.9342/-122.5224

| title = California: Tamalpais Sheet

| first1 = Henry

| last1 = Gannett

| first2 = R.U.

| last2 = Goode

| first3 = R.B.

| last3 = Marshall

| website =

| publisher = United States Geological Survey

| date = 1896

| access-date = 18 September 2021

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{{Cite map

| author = United States Geological Survey

| title = United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey

| map = San Rafael Quadrangle, California

| year = 1954

| scale = 1:24000

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{{Gnis|233161|Simms Island}}

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{{Islands of the San Francisco Bay Area}}

{{San Francisco Bay watershed}}

Category:Islands of Marin County, California

Category:Islands of San Francisco Bay

Category:Islands of Northern California

Category:Former islands of the United States

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