Drawbridge, California

Drawbridge
Aerial image of Drawbridge
Aerial image of Drawbridge
Drawbridge is located in San Francisco Bay Area
Drawbridge
Drawbridge
Location in the San Francisco Bay Area
Coordinates: 37°27′54″N 121°58′28″W / 37.46500°N 121.97444°W / 37.46500; -121.97444
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyAlameda
CityFremont
Elevation7 ft (2 m)

Drawbridge (formerly Saline City)[2] is a ghost town[3] with an abandoned railroad station located at the southern end of the San Francisco Bay, next to Station Island, now a part of the city of Fremont, California, United States. It is located on the Union Pacific Railroad 6 miles (10 km) south of downtown Fremont,[2] at an elevation of 7 feet (2 m). Formerly used as a hunting village, it has been a ghost town since 1979 and is slowly sinking into the marshlands.[3] It is now part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and is illegal to visit.[4]

  1. ^ "Drawbridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 19 January 1981. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 625. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference SFGate was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Drawbridge | San Francisco Bay Wildlife Society".