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Greenbrae, California

41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Ross Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94904. It stands on Larkspur Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Rafael quadrangle. It stands 33 feet above sea level.

Greenbrae within Marin County

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 98 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Greenbrae, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Greenbrae, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

17 surveys from 41 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

137 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Greenbrae between 1995 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 were 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/undetermined82
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
21 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Greenbrae: 8 occurrences, 6 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copperopolis MineAsbestosProducerChrysotile
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
GreenbraeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Highway 20 SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
HotalingStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Escalle QuarryStoneUnknown
Forbes QuarryStoneUnknown
HotalingStoneOccurrence
L P Mcnear Brick CoClayProducer

Every working recorded in Marin County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Escalle1.1 miles41
Larkspur1.1 miles41
Baltimore Park1.3 miles41
Murray Park1.6 miles41
Corte Madera1.6 miles41
Kentfield1.7 miles41
San Rafael1.8 miles41
Ross1.9 miles41

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 GreenbraeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3116127The 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 224537. 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.