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Inverness, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northwest Marin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94937. It lies near Millerton Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Inverness quadrangle. 1,379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 43 feet above sea level.

Inverness within Marin County

Then and now

1916 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 67 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Inverness, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Inverness, surveyed 1916

On record in Inverness

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 6 records

Population over time

2 figures

Inverness grew from 1,304 to 1,379 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,304
20201,379+75 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 28 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Inverness between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,398 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None 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/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreJOHNSONS
3 September 1994Smokingunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreSKIDPAN
26 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresPoint Reyes National SeashoreSHORELINE
22 September 1999Naturalunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreHAGGERTY
13 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
11 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
11 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashorePIERCE
9 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreWHITEGATE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Inverness: 8 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Inverness RidgeGoldUnknown
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
BenderTungstenOccurrence
Bender Dell BenderTungstenOccurrence1950
Borello QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
InvernessTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
Martinelli Ranch QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
NorenTungstenOccurrence1950

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Inverness in 3 storm reports in 2019: 3 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2019FloodInverness-Roadway flooding Sr Francis Drake Blvd and Mount Vision Fire Rd.
February 2019FloodInverness-Sir Francis Drake Blvd by Vision Rd is flooded and currently impassable, Pierce Point Rd by Keohe Beach Trailhead is also flooded.
February 2019FloodInverness-Roads between Inverness and Point Reyes are closed due to flooding.

Every storm 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
Millerton0.8 miles28
Seahaven1.0 miles28
Bivalve1.7 miles28
Inverness Park3.1 miles28
Marconi3.2 miles29
Point Reyes Station3.4 miles28
Reynolds3.5 miles29
Sacramento Landing4.3 miles29

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 InvernessAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3306123The 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 1658827. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.