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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "People from El Sobrante, Contra Costa County, California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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 ...
The Carriage Hills area is on the margin of urban development spawl with a large expanse of undeveloped land, parks and open space immediately surrounding the area, including the Sobrante Ridge Preserve. People may enjoy hiking and wildlife year-round, as well as rolling views of green or yellow grasses on bumpy hills depending on what time of ...
In 1923, EBMUD was founded due to the rapid population growth and severe drought in the area. The district constructed Pardee Dam (finished in 1929) on the Mokelumne River in the Sierra Nevada, and a large steel pipe Mokelumne Aqueduct to transport the water from Pardee Reservoir across the Central Valley to the San Pablo Reservoir located in the hills of the East Bay region.