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El Sobrante was called "Oak Grove" by industrial concerns in 1887 when the California and Nevada Railroad put a spur into the area for the purpose of carrying lumber cut from the hills. [11] Then the name Sobrante was applied, with the addition of the Spanish definite article "El" coinciding with the opening of the first post office in 1941.
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.
The Sierra Nevada lies primarily in Central and Eastern California, with the Carson Range, a small but historically important spur, extending into Nevada. West-to-east, the Sierra Nevada's elevation increases gradually from 500 feet (150 m) in the Central Valley [ 18 ] to more than 14,000 feet (4,300 m) atop the highest peaks of its crest 50 to ...
Striking images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer on NASA’s Terra satellite show just how massive the snowpack was. The satellite images below show the Sierra Nevada ...
The California & Mt. Diablo Railroad proposed to run from a pier on San Francisco Bay in Emeryville, then across central California and across the Sierra Nevada mountains at Sonora Pass near Bodie, California, and then east to a connection with the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in Utah. The California and Mt. Diablo was sold to the California ...
San Pablo Dam Road is a major arterial road linking San Pablo and Orinda, California in the United States, which connects San Pablo Avenue and Interstate 80 with Highway 24, [2] bypassing the Eastshore Freeway. It is also signed as Camino Pablo in Orinda. The road passes through the communities of El Sobrante and Richmond.
English: Locator map showing Sierra County (red) — Northern California. Located in the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range. The northern reach of the 19th-century California Gold Rush prospecting and mining activity in the Sierra's gold fields.
Garrity Creek is a 3.0-mile-long (4.8 km) [3] creek in Richmond, California's Hilltop neighborhood. It runs into San Pablo Bay. [4] It is sometimes called Hilltop Creek. The creek is supported by two springs, two separate legs which join into Garrity Creek in El Sobrante, California.