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San Geronimo, California

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Northwest Marin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94963. It lies near Green Hill. The Survey maps it on the San Geronimo quadrangle. 510 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

San Geronimo within Marin County

Then and now

1914 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 69 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of San Geronimo, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of San Geronimo, surveyed 1914

Population over time

2 figures

San Geronimo grew from 446 to 510 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
2010446
2020510+64 (+14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of San Geronimo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreRANDALL
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
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
18 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePoint Reyes National SeashoreTEIXERA
17 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder 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 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of San Geronimo: 9 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, 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
Maillard RanchChromiumOccurrence
McKinnan GulchCopper, LeadOccurrenceVein
Union GulchCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer1863
Union GulchCopper, Gold, SilverUnknown
Unnamed LocationGemstoneOccurrence
Lafranchi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
San GeronimoGoldOccurrence
San GeronimoGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names San Geronimo in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 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 2019FloodSan Geronimo-Water across roadway at Nicasio Valley Rd and San Geronimo Valley Dr, also tree down blocking entire roadway.

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
Woodacre1.0 miles23
Forest Knolls1.3 miles23
Mailliard (historical)1.6 miles23
Lagunitas2.0 miles23
Shafter2.4 miles23
Bothin (historical)2.5 miles24
Irving (historical)3.2 miles23
Nicasio3.8 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 San GeronimoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2075091The 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 232399. 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.