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Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026. 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 2026 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 26 Corte Madera Avenue, Mill Valley, 94941
  • When was it listed? January 2026
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Southeast Marin
  • National Register reference number. 100012501 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

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 Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 159 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined72
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1
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
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
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

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station: 12 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 unknowns, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese, Mercury, Silver. 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
GreenbraeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
HotalingStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
ClaimMercuryOccurrence
ClaimMercuryOccurrence
Escalle QuarryStoneUnknown
HotalingStoneOccurrence
Mt TamalpaisSilverOccurrence
Mt. TamalpaisSilverOccurrence

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 coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, 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
Outdoor Art Clubunder 500 feet1978
Dolliver House1.8 miles1978
Alexander-Acacia Bridge1.8 miles1984
Larkspur Downtown Historic District2.0 miles1982
Muir Woods National Monument2.2 miles2008
Dipsea Trail, The2.6 miles2010

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100012501 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.