It was located on the north side of the Douglas Street Bridge.

The sandbar started to form in the 1870s, supposedly due to a drop in the water level of the Arkansas River.

[4] By the early 1930s, flooding concerns led the Works Progress Administration to organise the removal of the sandbar.

The island became part of the current west bank of the Arkansas River.

This article about a location in Sedgwick County, Kansas is a stub.