Victoria Island (California)

Victoria Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, twenty kilometres southwest of Stockton.^[1] The 7,200-acre (2,900 ha) island is bounded on the north by North Victoria Canal, on the northeast by Middle River, on the southeast by Victoria Canal, and on the south- and southwest Old River. It is crossed by California State Route 4.^[2]

Buried impact structure

Oil exploration led to the discovery of a possible buried impact structure in the sediments under the island. It was named the Victoria Island Structure after the island.^[3]^[4]

Cities and towns

Islands

Waterways

Rivers, creeks and sloughs	American River Beaver Slough Broad Slough Cache Slough Calaveras River Connection Slough Disappointment Slough Dutch Slough Elk Slough False River Fourteenmile Slough French Camp Slough Georgiana Slough Hog Slough Indian Slough Latnam Slough Lindsey Slough Lookout Slough Marsh Creek Mayberry Slough Middle River Miner Slough Mokelumne River North Fork South Fork New York Slough Old River Potato Slough Prospect Slough Sacramento River San Joaquin River Sand Mound Slough Sevenmile Slough Shag Slough Snodgrass Slough Steamboat Slough Sycamore Slough Taylor Slough Rock Slough Threemile Slough Tom Paine Slough Trapper Slough Whiskey Slough White Slough

Man-made channels	Bishop Cut Columbia Cut Delta Cross Channel Fishermans Cut Hastings Cut Holland Cut Honker Cut North Victoria Canal Paradise Cut Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel Victoria Canal Woodward Canal

Other features

Water supply
infrastructure

Designated areas

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