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Photograph of Muir Woods National Monument Historic District
Photograph by Sarbjit Bahga, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Muir Woods National Monument

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 2008 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Muir Woods Rd., Mill Valley, 94941
  • When was it listed? January 2008
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Bolinas
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. Thomas Carpenter, William G. Carnes, Daniel Ray Hull
  • National Register reference number. 07001396 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1897 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, 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 covering Muir Woods National Monument, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Muir Woods National Monument, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

76 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Muir Woods National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
7 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaLEACH
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaALTA
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
24 September 1993Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresGolden Gate National Recreation AreaTV#1
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
22 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGolden Gate National Recreation AreaBASE END
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaCOLE

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Muir Woods National Monument: 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Silver, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Escalle QuarryStoneUnknown
McKinnan GulchCopperProspect
Unnamed LocationManganeseOccurrence
ClaimMercuryOccurrence
ClaimMercuryOccurrence
Escalle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Mt TamalpaisSilverOccurrence
Mt. TamalpaisSilverOccurrence
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dipsea Trail, The0.5 miles2010
West Point Inn1.5 miles2011
Mount Tamalpais Mountain Theater1.6 miles2015
Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station2.2 miles2026
Outdoor Art Club2.3 miles1978
Dolliver House3.6 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07001396 in Record Group 79.
Marin CountyAll 50 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.