Cottonwood Island (other)
Cottonwood Island may refer to: * Cottonwood Island (Nevada) *Cottonwood Island (Washington) Cottonwood Island is an uninhabited island in the U.S. state of Washington. It lies in the Columbia River between Kalama, Washington and the cities of Longview and Kelso, Washington Kelso is a city in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of ...

Cottonwood Island (Nevada)
Cottonwood Island, a large island in the Colorado River, within Cottonwood Valley, in Clark County, Nevada. Cottonwood Island was a low-lying island about 10 miles long and up to 3 miles wide. It was forested by cottonwoods and also after the spring flood, cluttered with driftwood from the riparian woodlands along the upper watershed of the Colorado River, washed down and caught in the first wide valley where the river slowed and spread out. Cottonwood Island was important as a source wood and of fuel for steamboats on that river and for the early mills and mines in El Dorado Canyon. John Ross Browne described it in his 1869 report on the Colorado River: :"Cottonwood island, about 10 miles long by an average of about three miles wide, is a fine, level island, fertile and covered with grass, and having considerable timber. Claims are said to have been located upon the land, but it is yet unoccupied. On the main land on both sides of the river opposite Cottonwood island are fine ...
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