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
| 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.
References
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| 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
}}
| 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
}}
| 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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{{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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