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Rio Vista is a small city in Solano County approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Sacramento, on the Sacramento River in the Sacramento River Delta.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.1 square miles (18 km 2), of which, 6.7 square miles (17 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (5.68%) is water.
The Rio Vista Gas Field is a large natural gas field in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in northern California, adjacent to Rio Vista, California. Discovered in 1936, and in continuous operation since, it has produced over 3.6 trillion cubic feet (100 km 3 ) of gas in its lifetime, and retains an estimated reserve of approximately 330 ...
Upon completion, the Rio Vista bridge won an American Institute of Steel Construction class IV (movable bridges) prize bridge award in 1960. [ 7 ] The main lift span weighs 750 short tons (680 t), with an equal amount in counterweights, so the lift mechanism operates 1,500 short tons (1,400 t) using two 30-horsepower (22 kW) electric motors ...
An aerial photo looking northwest, taken in 2018. Ryer Island can be seen on the bottom. Ryer Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta surrounded by Miner Slough and Steamboat Slough at their confluence with the Sacramento River, 6.5 miles north-northeast of Rio Vista. [1]
The second section of SR 84 starts in Rio Vista at SR 12. It then follows the Ryer Island Ferry, which carries the route across the Cache Slough. When it leaves the ferry, it intersects SR 220. It continues northward and meets the end of state maintenance at the West Sacramento city limit, about six miles east of an intersection with CR E19
Also in the general neighborhood, Philadelphia placed 9th out of all American cities for many of the same reasons as New York. Buffalo, the only other Empire State entry, landed at a middling 45th
Rio Vista is the nearest city, and Travis Air Force Base is about 10 miles northwest of the Montezuma Hills. They are north across the Sacramento River from Antioch and Pittsburg , and 40 miles (64 km) northeast of San Francisco .
These hero officers and good Samaritans saved children from thin ice, drowning, choking and a hostage situation, and adults from falling off a bridge and a house fire.