Geography | |
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Location | Northern California |
Coordinates | 38°01′55″N 121°29′04″W / 38.03194°N 121.48444°W[1] |
Adjacent to | Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta |
Highest elevation | 7 ft (2.1 m)[1] |
Administration | |
United States | |
State | California |
County | San Joaquin |
Headreach Island is a small island in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, in northern California. A naturally-formed island existing in a complex with Tule Island to the southeast and Fern Island to the northwest, it was used for farming as late as the 1920s. While several proposals for real estate development on the island were made in the late 20th century, it now consists mostly of marsh and submerged land. Black rails live on the island.