Dillon Beach, California
18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northwest Marin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94929. It lies near Sugarloaf. The Survey maps it on the Valley Ford quadrangle. 246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 89 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1935 to 1983The same ground, surveyed 48 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresDillon Beach fell from 283 to 246 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 283 | |
| 2020 | 246 | -37 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 18 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1935 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:48000
- 1942 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Sebastopol quadrangle1:62500
- 1954 USGS Valley Ford quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
13 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Dillon Beach between 1993 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | HIGHWAY 1 |
| 27 August 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 6.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ESTERO |
| 24 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ANATONI |
| 20 August 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Point Reyes National Seashore | HUT |
| 12 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit | ESTERO |
| 6 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7.1 acres | Point Reyes National Seashore | PIERCE |
| 31 July 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 27 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Dillon Beach: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General | Occurrence | Limestone | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Dillon Beach Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Tomales Point | Gold | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Tomales Point | Gold | Unknown |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vincent Landing | 2.5 miles | 29 | |
| Tomales | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Ocean Roar | 3.2 miles | 29 | |
| Fallon | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Hamlet | 3.6 miles | 29 | |
| Nicks Cove | 4.2 miles | 29 | |
| Blakes Landing | 4.6 miles | 29 | |
| McDonald | 5.2 miles | 29 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Dillon Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2104029 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658420. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.









