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Grand Island, California

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Grand Island is located in Colusa County.

Typical abbreviation for Grand Island: Grand Is. (or less commonly used: Grand Isld. or Grand Islnd.. In Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)

Grand Island is near sea level<1>.

Time Zone: Grand Island lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Grand Island can be found in:

 Colorado (historic<2>) 
 Florida 
 Nebraska 
 New York 

While we we don't have population counts for Grand Island, we do have some information about the surrounding area on the Census Page for Grand Island).

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008<4>
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Arbuckle   W10 mi [16.09 km]---
 College City   SW8 mi [12.87 km]---
 Colusa   NW12 mi [19.31 km]5,8929.07% increase
 Live Oak   NE17 mi [27.36 km]8,24532.36% increase
 Marysville   E16 mi [25.75 km]11,7004.63% decrease
 South Yuba City   E12 mi [19.31 km]---

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Grand Island.




Search for Local Businesses

People have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Grand Island. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Lodging     Gas Stations     Banks              
Bed & Breakfast     Truck Stops     Real Estate    
Campgrounds      Rentals    
Restaurants     Auto Repair      
 RV Repair     Churches    
Food/Groceries        
Pharmacy     Auto Parts     Libraries    
  RV Parts     Schools    
Attractions     Motorcycle Parts     Government Offices    
     
Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
Hiking/Camping     Doctors      
  Dentists      
Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Grand Island:

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Panoramio.com

Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Grand Island? Please visit the Map Page for Grand Island.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Grand Island - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Grand Island, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Grand Island and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Grand Island.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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