Suisun Bay (/səˈsuːn/ sə-SOON; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in...
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The Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet colloquially known as the mothball fleet, is located on the northwest side of Suisun Bay (the northern portion of the greater...
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its name from the adjacent Suisun Bay, which in turn is named for the Suisun people, an Indian tribe of the area. Suisun City is located at 38°14′42″N...
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List of islands of California (redirect from List of islands of San Francisco Bay)
once used as a disposal site for radioactive waste. Suisun Bay is an arm of the San Francisco Bay estuary which connects the Sacramento and San Joaquin...
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United States Navy reserve fleets (section Suisun Bay)
MARAD (US Maritime Administration). Several of its sites, such as at Suisun Bay in California, are also used to store regular Navy ships. Ships placed...
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Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay: Alameda, Contra...
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Reserve Fleet); Beaumont, Texas (Beaumont Reserve Fleet); and Suisun Bay, California (Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet); and at designated outported berths. Former...
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line between Bay Point and Walnut Creek in 1910, extending to Lafayette the following year. While a bridge was planned to cross Suisun Bay, this never...
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mountains, flow into Suisun Bay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects...
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List of rivers of California (section Suisun Bay)
listed from those entering nearest the bays to farthest). The Central Valley watershed feeding into Suisun Bay via the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is...
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Suisun Bay and the Carquinez Strait on its northeast end, and it connects to the Pacific Ocean via the San Francisco Bay on its southern end. The bay...
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(also called the Suisun and the "People of the West Wind") were a Patwin tribe of Wintun people, originating in the Suisun Bay and Suisun Marsh regions of...
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Bay Point is just west of Pittsburg, California, and northeast of Concord, California, on the southern shore of Suisun Bay. The population of Bay Point...
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Geology and geological history of California (section San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay)
was founded on its hot springs. The three interconnected Suisun, San Pablo and San Francisco bays occupy a structural depression dating to the Pliocene which...
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consisted of about fifty World War II ships that were moored in Suisun Bay (Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet) near San Francisco since the 1950s or '60s. The fleet...
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In late 1996, the ship was towed from the mothball fleet in Suisun Bay to San Francisco Bay, where much of the existing rig structure around the moon pool...
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Grizzly Bay is a baylet of the San Francisco Bay, and an extension of Suisun Bay, which dips into Solano County, California. Grizzly Bay contains many...
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Port Chicago, California (redirect from Bay Point (former settlement), California)
Port Chicago was a town on the southern banks of Suisun Bay, in Contra Costa County, California. It was located 6.5 miles (10 km) east-northeast of Martinez...
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the tug Sea Victory began her tow to California. The ship arrived in Suisun Bay near San Francisco on 21 April 2001 and joined the Reserve Fleet, where...
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storage of inactive nuclear powered vessels. Inactive ship facilities in Suisun Bay, James River and Beaumont, Texas are owned and operated by the Maritime...
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Suisun may refer to: Suisun people Suisun Bay Suisun City, California Suisun–Fairfield station Suisun Marsh Suisun Valley AVA, wine region USS Suisun...
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rivers between Martinez and Suisun City, California and several other smaller, local watersheds. Adjacent to Suisun Bay, the marsh is immediately west...
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County, and a southern terminus at Suisun Bay in the estuary where the Sacramento River enters San Francisco Bay. Elevations on the valley floor range...
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Chief Solano (category History of the San Francisco Bay Area)
1798 – c. 1851) was a leader of the Suisunes, a Patwin people of the Suisun Bay region of northern California. Baptized as Francisco Solano and also known...
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now staged at the James River (off Ft. Eustis, VA); Beaumont, TX; and Suisun Bay (off Benicia, CA) anchorages, and other designated locations. A Ready...
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SS Jeremiah O'Brien (category National Historic Landmarks in the San Francisco Bay Area)
was mothballed and remained in the National Defense Reserve Fleet in Suisun Bay for 33 years. In the 1970s, however, the idea of preserving an unaltered...
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Carquinez Strait (category San Francisco Bay)
Francisco Bay. The strait is eight miles (13 km) long and connects Suisun Bay, which receives the waters of the combined rivers, with San Pablo Bay, a northern...
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memorial in San Francisco, played the part of USS Stingray. The nearby Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet stood in for Naval Station Norfolk. The film makes use of...
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Mount Diablo Creek (category Rivers of the San Francisco Bay Area)
Weapons Station, ultimately ending in tidelands on the southern shore of Suisun Bay in Contra Costa County. If the Concord Naval Weapons Station is converted...
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31 August 1992, Pigeon was laid up in National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay Group. On 18 December 1998, the vessel was transferred to the Maritime...
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