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Point San Pablo Harbor is a marina and small community at the far end of Point San Pablo in San Pablo Bay, within Richmond, in Contra Costa County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located at 1900 Stenmark Drive, Richmond CA 94801.
San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge is a 13,190-acre (53.4 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge in California established in 1970. It extends along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay , from the mouth of the Petaluma River , to Tolay Creek , Sonoma Creek , and ending at Mare Island .
An 1861 map indicates that Wildcat Creek was called Little San Pablo Creek then. "Big" San Pablo Creek is located in the next drainage east of the drainage of Wildcat Creek. [ 7 ] There are over fifty geographic place names in California with the word "wildcat", which either refers to the historic presence of bobcats ( Lynx rufus ) or to its ...
The peninsula runs between Castro Cove and Point San Pablo, and is dominated by the steep ridges of the Potrero Hills, an escarpment that runs along the entire peninsula. [1] The peninsula is largely owned by Chevron and is used as a safety buffer for security purposes (see Chevron Richmond Refinery).
The cove is also a recreational, fishing, boating, and shellfishing area. [2] The Richmond Rod & Gun Club Yacht Harbor is located on the western coast of the cove. The Chevron Richmond Refinery located at the south end of the inlet dumps 5.6 million gallons daily of treated industrial use waters into the Cove, Castro Creek and San Pablo Bay. [2]
San Pablo Creek's delta, located within the city limits of Richmond, is known as San Pablo Creek Marsh, and its 300 acres (1.2 km 2) are filled with an abundance of wildlife, including endangered species such as the California clapper rail, the salt marsh harvest mouse, the threatened black rail, the salt marsh wandering shrew, and the San ...
Mount Tamalpais from Point Pinole Regional Shoreline. Point Pinole Regional Shoreline is a regional park on the shores of the San Pablo Bay, California (the northern arm of the San Francisco Bay), in the United States. It is approximately 2,315 acres (9.37 km 2) in area, and is operated by the East Bay Regional Park District.
State Route 37 (SR 37) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs 21 miles (34 km) along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay.It serves as a vital connection in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, running from U.S. Route 101 in Novato, through northeastern Marin County, and the southern tips of both Sonoma and Solano Counties to Interstate 80 in Vallejo.