Steamboat Slough
Steamboat Slough is an alternate branch of the Sacramento River, named for its popular use by steamboats traveling between San Francisco and Sacramento.- Type: Stream
- Description: Branch of the Sacramento River
- Also known as: “Merritt’s Slough” and “Middle Fork”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rio Vista Municipal Airport and Rio Vista Bridge.
Rio Vista Municipal Airport
Aerodrome
Rio Vista Municipal Airport is a public airport located three miles northwest of Rio Vista, serving Solano County, California, USA. This general aviation airport covers 273 acres and has two runways and one helipad. Rio Vista Municipal Airport is situated 2½ miles west of Steamboat Slough.
Rio Vista Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Fabrictramp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Rio Vista Bridge is a continuous truss span with a vertical-lift bridge in the middle which carries California State Route 12 across the Sacramento River at Rio Vista, California. Rio Vista Bridge is situated 2 miles southwest of Steamboat Slough.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rio Vista and Isleton.
Rio Vista
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Rio Vista is in the California Delta in Solano County in the Sacramento Valley region of California. Rio Vista sits on the northwest bank of the Sacramento River.
Isleton
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Isleton is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. The population was 794 at the 2020 census, down from 804 at the 2010 census. It is located on Andrus Island amid the slough wetlands of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, on the eastern edge of the Rio Vista Gas Field.
Steamboat Slough
- Categories: watercourse and body of water
- Location: Sacramento County, Sacramento Valley, California, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Steamboat Slough” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Steamboat Slough (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, California)”
- Cebuano: “Steamboat Slough”
- Venetian: “Steamboat Slough”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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