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In the 1990s, Star Wars comics artist Chris Fenoglio was raised in El Sobrante. [29] Other notable residents include artist's model Flo Allen, who died while living in El Sobrante. [30] As well as pioneering hypertext author Judy Malloy who lived in El Sobrante from 1995 [31] to 2013, [32] [33] and wrote much of her work while living there.
El Sobrante (pronounced [el soˈβɾante]; Spanish for 'The Leftovers', 'The Surplus', 'The Remaining Land') is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. [2] El Sobrante sits at an elevation of 1,283 feet (391 m). The 2010 United States census reported El Sobrante's population was 12,723.
People from El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California (12 P) Pages in category "El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
El Sobrante can refer to: El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California. Rancho El Sobrante, the original land grant for the area; El Sobrante, Riverside County, California; John Kiffmeyer, The original drummer of green day's nickname; See also. El Sobrante Hills, a neighborhood in Richmond, California
El Sobrante The smallest unit was one square league, or about seven square miles, or 4,400 acres (17.8 square kilometers), maximum to one individual was eleven leagues, or 48,400 acres (195.9 km 2 ), including no more than 4,428 acres (17.9 km 2 ) of irrigable land.
Rancho El Sobrante was a 20,565-acre (83.22 km 2) Mexican land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Alvarado to Juan Jose Castro and Victor Castro. [1] The name refers to a "surplus" in Spanish—the grant's boundaries were determined by the boundaries of the surrounding grants: San Antonio, San ...
View of the Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area Sikh Festival and Parade, San Francisco Civic Center June 10, 2018. The Sikh Center of San Francisco Bay Area (also known as Gurdwara Sahib of El Sobrante) is a Sikh gurdwara in the hills of unincorporated El Sobrante, California, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. [1]
Before this 222 acres (90 ha) park became a protected area, it was home to wheat fields, the site of Ranchos and railroad stations for a railroad that ran from Oakland to Orinda through Berkeley and Richmond via El Sobrante. It was originally part of the 17,754-acre Rancho San Pablo. Francisco Castro acquired the rancho in 1823, and the grove ...