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Sleepy Hollow, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Ross Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94960. It stands on Bothin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Novato quadrangle. 2,401 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Sleepy Hollow 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 Sleepy Hollow, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Sleepy Hollow, surveyed 1914

Population over time

2 figures

Sleepy Hollow grew from 2,384 to 2,401 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
20102,384
20202,401+17 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

116 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow between 2005 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. None 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/undetermined75
Equipment and vehicle use18
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking5
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined26 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
26 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot 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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Sleepy Hollow: 7 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Patent Brick CompanyClayPast Producer
Forbes QuarryStoneUnknown
HotalingStoneOccurrence
HotalingStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
Maillard RanchManganeseOccurrence
Mount Tamalpais Cemetery QuarryStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
San GeronimoGoldOccurrence
San GeronimoGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Marin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sleepy Hollow in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 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
January 2024FloodSleepy Hollow-Lucas Valley Road under US Highway 101 was flooded.
February 2024FloodSleepy Hollow-Westbound Lucas Valley Road west of 101 was completely flooded.
February 2019FloodSleepy Hollow-Approx 6 inches of water in both EB and WB lanes of Lucas Valley Rd under Hwy 101.

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
Manor1.4 miles41
Fairfax1.6 miles41
Lucas Valley1.8 miles24
Terra Linda1.9 miles24
Bothin (historical)1.9 miles24
Terra Lindo2.2 miles24
Las Gallinas2.5 miles24
Los Ranchitos2.5 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 Sleepy HollowAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3476215The 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 1800792. 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.