Two Delta islands named Ryer in Solano County!    Another example:  Apparently from 2006 to the beginning of 2008 Google Maps listed Ryer Island as "Tyler" island, and then showed the name Ryer Island where the other Ryer Island (formerly Long Point Island) in the Suisun Marsh area is located.  When notified of the incorrect island name labeling, Google "fixed" the problem by recognizing the later Ryer.  However, in 2008, if you tried Google map and directions function, it would send you to Grand Island instead, at least for most of 2008 and early 2009.  Google said to contact TeleAtlas.  Even Solano County mapping/survey office got involved and made a request for the map correction in November 2008, but as of September, 2009,  Google or TeleAtlas still hasn't bothered to correctly label the area, even though the online status check from TeleAtlas says "we see the problem" and later "we're working on it".  Since so many different governmental agencies appear to use Google for mapping, the incorrect island names (not just Ryer, but other Delta islands also) keep showing up,  /fir example, a prominent scientist named Jeffry Mount, who has for years promoting restoration of the Delta, uses in his slide show presentation about the delta a large map for the North Delta area, which lists Ryer Island as "Grand Island".  If even a prominent scientist who has spent his career studying the Delta region uses slides showing incorrect island names, clearly the problem of incorrect mapping has become extensive.

     Why two Ryer Islands in Solano county?  For some unknown reason, in 1981 the USGS mapping service officially renamed Long Point Island in Suisun Bay as "Ryer" and that was the beginning of the confusion.  They even noted there is another Ryer Island in Solano County, 25 miles to the north!  Since 1981, various governmental reports and assessments appear to transpose which Ryer Island they are talking about, and even physical data regarding the Ryer Island on Suisun Bay appears to have been used for Reports regarding Ryer Island by Steamboat Slough!  Solano County mapping department has been notified of this conflict of names, and hopefully they will be able to get the online mapping services to make the corrections since citizen requests have not been responded to.  In addition, Ryer Island by Steamboat and Cache Sloughs has a wonderful and beautiful history as one of the early-established and diverse agricultural and recreation islands of the California Delta Region.  From  the 1850's, the area we know as Ryer Island has been a great place to live, farm, fish and relax.  This website will be posting photos, maps, paintings and sketches from the last 150 years of life on Ryer Island.  Please check back!  In the meantime, here's a link to the comments of one writer from that time: