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Tiburon, California

39 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Southeast Marin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94920. It lies near Belvedere Island. The Survey maps it on the San Francisco North quadrangle. 9,146 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Tiburon within Marin County

Then and now

1895 to 1995

The same ground, surveyed 100 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tiburon, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet of Tiburon, surveyed 1895

On record in Tiburon

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

Population over time

2 figures

Tiburon grew from 8,962 to 9,146 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
20108,962
20209,146+184 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

19 surveys from 39 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Tiburon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 8 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/undetermined56
Recreation and ceremony28
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking11
Arson/incendiarism8
Fireworks6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
5 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaALTA
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaMEADOW
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaLOG CABIN
24 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresGolden Gate National Recreation AreaTV#1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Tiburon: 7 occurrences, 5 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Manganese, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Angel Island DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fort BakerGold, ManganeseOccurrence1914
Lime PointGemstoneOccurrence1935
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
Richfield Oil Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
United Materials and Richmond Pressed Brick Co.ClayProducer1907
Untd. Mtrls. & Rchmnd.Prssd.Brck.CoClayPast Producer
Ft BakerStoneUnknown
Richmond Point RichmondStoneOccurrence

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
Belvedere0.4 miles39
Belvedere Island0.8 miles39
Hilarita1.1 miles39
El Campo1.7 miles39
Sausalito1.8 miles39
Little Reed Heights2.2 miles39
Harbor Point2.4 miles41
Waldo2.5 miles39

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 TiburonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q984603The 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 1659998. 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.