Mill Valley, California
41 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Marin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94941. It stands on Old Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the San Rafael quadrangle. 14,231 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 79 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1897 to 1995The 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.


On record in Mill Valley
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 5 records
Mount Tamalpais Mountain Theaterlisted 2015
Muir Woods National Monumentlisted 2008
Outdoor Art Clublisted 1978
West Point Innlisted 2011- Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Stationlisted 2026
Population over time
2 figuresMill Valley grew from 13,903 to 14,231 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 | 13,903 | |
| 2020 | 14,231 | +328 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
17 surveys from 41 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.
- 1897 USGS Tamalpais quadrangle1:62500, 12 printings
- 1941 USGS Tamalpais quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mt. Tamalpais quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS San Rafael quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
- 1955 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1957 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1985 USGS San Francisco quadrangle1:250000
- 1993 USGS San Rafael quadrangle1:24000
- 1995 USGS San Rafael quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Mill Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined | 76 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 7 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 7 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | LEACH |
| 5 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | ALTA |
| 3 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
| 3 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
| 24 September 1993 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | TV#1 |
| 23 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Mill Valley: 12 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Mercury, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copperopolis Mine | Asbestos | Producer | Chrysotile | |
| Greenbrae | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Hotaling | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Tiburon Ridge Flagstone | Stone, Stone, Dimension | Occurrence | ||
| Claim | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Claim | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Escalle Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| Hotaling | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Mt Tamalpais | Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Mt. Tamalpais | Silver | Occurrence |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homestead Valley | 0.7 miles | 41 | |
| Alto | 1.0 miles | 41 | |
| Almonte | 1.5 miles | 41 | |
| Corte Madera | 1.6 miles | 41 | |
| Chapman | 1.7 miles | 41 | |
| Baltimore Park | 1.8 miles | 41 | |
| Tamalpais Valley | 1.8 miles | 41 | |
| Strawberry Manor | 1.9 miles | 41 |
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 Mill Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q846413 | 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 1659128. 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.
















