Yerba Buena Island - San Francisco, CA
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N 37° 48.629 W 122° 21.991
10S E 555761 N 4184977
A natural island that sits in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Interstate 80 passes right through the small island on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Waymark Code: WMRCPC
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2016
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Taken from Wikipedia, "Yerba Buena Island sits in the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland, California. The Yerba Buena Tunnel runs through its center and connects the western and eastern spans of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. It has had several other names over the decades: Sea Bird Island, Wood Island, and Goat Island. The island is named after the town of Yerba Buena, which was named for the plant of the same name that was abundant in the area. The plant's English and Spanish common name, Yerba buena, is an alternate form of the Spanish hierba buena (literally meaning "good herb"), generally used to describe local species of the mint family.
The island is currently part of District 6 of the City and County of San Francisco. According to the United States Census Bureau, Yerba Buena Island and Treasure Island together have a land area of 2.334 km2 (0.901 sq mi) with a total population of 2,500 as of the 2010 census.
Today the military reservation southeast of the Yerba Buena Tunnel belongs to the United States Coast Guard (USCG) District Eleven. The US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco – Vessel Traffic Service (VTS) tower is located on Signal Road Bldg. 278 atop the peak of the island. The US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Headquarters is co-located with US Coast Guard Station San Francisco on Healy Avenue @ Fresnel Way at water-level on the southeast coast of the island. The USCG Station has a navigational buoy repair facility on Fresnel Way. The USCG Senior Officers' residences are in Quarters A, B, C, 8 and 9 off of Hillcrest Road on the hill atop the USCG base. During the summer of 2011, the Department of Homeland Security - United States Coast Guard opened the new SAFE Port Act (2006) Interagency Operations Center (IOC at Bldg. 100 site on Spindrift Circle) on the US Coast Guard Sector / Station San Francisco base. The IOC houses the VTS, WatchKeeper and the US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco Command Center together in one building."
Taken from the book, "Stepping stone for the bridge builders in spanning the Bay, cone shaped Yerba Buena Island (open for official business only by pass from Headquarters 12th Naval District, Federal Office Bldg., San Francisco), rising between the easter and western shores, is the anchorage for both suspension and the cantilever spans of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Though a rock formation of the island passes a bore tunnel connecting the two (see Emporium of a New World: Engineering Enterprise). East of the tunnel, the first of the bridge's East Bay spans passes over buildings of the island's naval reservation on a narrow young of land projecting into the bay, terminated by a barren low hill. Winding paved side roads lead to all parts of the island's landscaped and heavily wooded slops, dotted by the neat dwellings of navy and lighthouse personnel." -- San Francisco, the bay and its cities, 1940
Book: San Francisco
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 366
Year Originally Published: 1940
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