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Photograph of West Point Inn
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

West Point Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. 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 2011 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Old RR grade, Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley, 94941
  • When was it listed? December 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Bolinas
  • Architectural style. Shingle style architecture
  • National Register reference number. 11000934 - 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 West Point Inn, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering West Point Inn, surveyed 1897

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of West Point Inn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined45
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
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 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaLEACH
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
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 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
16 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named
14 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMarin County Fire Departmentnot named

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of West Point Inn: 9 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Silver, Stone. 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
HotalingStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionUnknown
McKinnan GulchCopper, LeadOccurrenceVein
McKinnan GulchCopperProspect
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
Mount Tamalpais Mountain Theater0.9 miles2015
Dipsea Trail, The1.3 miles2010
Muir Woods National Monument1.5 miles2008
Mill Valley City Hall and Fire Station2.7 miles2026
Outdoor Art Club2.7 miles1978
Dolliver House3.2 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000934 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.