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Photograph of Angel Island Immigration Station
Photograph by North, Hart Hyatt, 1871-, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Angel Island Immigration Station

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Angel Island Immigration Station was an immigration station in San Francisco Bay which operated from January 21, 1910, to November 5, 1940, where immigrants entering the United States were detained and interrogated. It is estimated that some 100,000 Chinese immigrants and 85,000 Japanese immigrants entered the United States through this station.”

Wikipedia article Angel Island Immigration Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 50 National Register listings published here for Marin County · listed in 1971 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. SE of Tiburon in San Francisco Bay, Tiburon, 94920
  • When was it listed? October 1971
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Southeast Marin
  • National Register reference number. 71000164 - 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

1895 to 1995

The ground this property stands on, 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 covering Angel Island Immigration Station, surveyed 1995
Topographic sheet covering Angel Island Immigration Station, surveyed 1895

Fires near this property

122 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Angel Island Immigration Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined59
Recreation and ceremony20
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism7
Fireworks6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning3
Other causes1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaWASHINGTON
23 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaTREE

Every fire recorded in Marin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Angel Island Immigration Station: 10 occurrences, 7 producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Blake Brothers San PabloStone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand
Fort BakerGold, ManganeseOccurrence1914
Lime PointGemstoneOccurrence1935
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Stone, DimensionOccurrence
Angel Island DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Blake Brothers QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
United Materials and Richmond Pressed Brick Co.ClayProducer1907
Untd. Mtrls. & Rchmnd.Prssd.Brck.CoClayPast Producer
Richfield Oil Co.Stone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Tiburon Ridge FlagstoneStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Marin County

Maps showing this location

19 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
Lyford's Stone Tower1.3 miles1976
San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Station House-Depot1.4 miles1995
St. Hilary's Mission Church1.7 miles2020
Valentine Rey House1.8 miles1982
William G. Barrett House3.1 miles1980
Sausalito Woman's Club3.2 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 71000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.