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Kentfield, 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 lies near Ross Hill. The Survey maps it on the San Rafael quadrangle. 6,808 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 115 feet above sea level.

Kentfield 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 Kentfield, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Kentfield, surveyed 1897

On record in Kentfield

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

Kentfield grew from 6,485 to 6,808 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
20106,485
20206,808+323 (+5%)

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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Kentfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 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/undetermined84
Equipment and vehicle use24
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony5
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
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaLEACH
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
26 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Kentfield: 9 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Silver, Clay. 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
Mt TamalpaisSilverOccurrence
Mt. TamalpaisSilverOccurrence
Remillard Brick Co.ClayOccurrence
Remillard Brick CompanyClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kentfield in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
March 2020HailKentfield-Pea-sized hail in Kentfield for about 10 minutes.
January 2019FloodKentfield-Scattered flooding of houses around Sleepy Hollow, Ross Valley, San Anselmo, and Fairfax due to clogged drains along the Corte Madera. Sewage systems backed up and leaking into the Bay.
January 2017Flash FloodKentfield-Corte Madera Creek stream gauge at Ross exceeded flood stage between 6:43 pm and 8:00 pm PST on January 10.
February 2004Thunderstorm WindKentfield-no account filed

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
Kent Woodlands0.4 miles41
Murray Park0.6 miles41
Ross0.7 miles41
Escalle0.9 miles41
San Anselmo1.6 miles41
Larkspur1.7 miles41
Greenbrae1.7 miles41
Baltimore Park2.0 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 KentfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2450147The 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 1658892. 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.