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One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 2010 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dipsea Trail, The
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.
The listing
- Address. Throckmorton Ave, Sequoia Valley Rd., Panoramic Hwy., State Rt 1, Muir Woods National Monument, Golden Gate National Rec, Mill Valley and Stinson Beach, 94941
- When was it listed? June 2010
- Category. structure
- Census division. Bolinas
- National Register reference number. 10000356 - 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 1995The 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.
Fires near this property
72 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Dipsea Trail, The 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/undetermined | 36 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 22 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Golden Gate National Recreation Area | BASE END |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Marin County Fire Department | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Dipsea Trail, The: 6 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Silver, Manganese, Copper. 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 | |
| Escalle Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Occurrence | ||
| Escalle Quarry | Stone | Unknown | ||
| McKinnan Gulch | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed Location | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Claim | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Claim | Mercury | Occurrence | ||
| Mt Tamalpais | Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Mt. Tamalpais | Silver | Occurrence |
Maps showing this location
17 surveysUnited 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.
- 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
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Muir Woods National Monument | 0.5 miles | 2008 |
 | Mount Tamalpais Mountain Theater | 1.1 miles | 2015 |
 | West Point Inn | 1.3 miles | 2011 |
| Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station | 2.6 miles | 2026 | |
 | Outdoor Art Club | 2.6 miles | 1978 |
| Dolliver House | 3.8 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10000356 in Record Group 79. |
| Marin County | All 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.