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Inverness Park, 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 94956. It lies near Haggerty Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Inverness quadrangle. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

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

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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Inverness Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 17,520 acres in total. 5 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Smoking3
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
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
21 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.2 acresPoint Reyes National SeashoreDRAKE 2
20 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution52 acresGolden Gate National Recreation AreaGENAZZI
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
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 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Inverness Park: 10 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Tungsten, Gold, Stone. 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
Heaton's FlatGold, SilverPast Producer
Black MountainStoneOccurrence
Inverness RidgeGoldUnknown
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
BenderTungstenOccurrence
Bender Dell BenderTungstenOccurrence1950
InvernessTungstenOccurrenceScheelite
NorenTungstenOccurrence1950
NorenTungstenUnknown
Black MountainStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence

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
Point Reyes Station0.9 miles28
Bivalve2.0 miles28
Olema2.4 miles28
Inverness3.1 miles28
Millerton3.3 miles28
Tocaloma3.5 miles28
Seahaven4.1 miles28
Jewell4.5 miles23

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 Inverness ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6060260The 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 1658828. 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.