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Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded as the 20th Spanish mission in the colonial province of Alta California by three priests—Father Narciso Durán from Mission San José, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Asís, Father Luis Gíl y Taboada from La Iglesia de Nuestra Señora Reina de los Angeles—on December 14, 1817, four years before Mexico gained independence from Spain.
Population (2020 Census) 1 † San Rafael: City 61,271 2 Novato: City 53,225 3 Mill Valley: City 14,231 4 Larkspur: City 13,064 5 San Anselmo: Town 12,830 6 Tamalpais-Homestead Valley: CDP 11,492 7 Corte Madera: Town 10,222 8 Tiburon: Town 9,146 9 Fairfax: Town 7,605 10 Sausalito: City 7,269 11 Kentfield: CDP 6,808 12 Lucas Valley-Marinwood ...
The U.S. State of California currently has 42 statistical areas that have been delineated by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB).. On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated seven combined statistical areas, 25 metropolitan statistical areas, and ten micropolitan statistical areas in California. [1]
Larkspur is located directly south of Kentfield and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of San Rafael, [7] at an elevation of 43 feet (13 m). [1] As of the 2020 census , the city's population was 13,064. Larkspur's Police Department is shared with that of the neighboring Corte Madera and town of San Anselmo as the Central Marin Police Authority .
Early Terra Linda residents formed a Community Services District, and Recreation & Parks District, under the direct authority of the Marin County government. These entities built the public infrastructure that stands today. In the early 1970s, citizens voted to annex these entities to the City of San Rafael. Its population is about 10,000.
View of Eagle Rock, 1900 Occidental College, founded in 1887, moved to Eagle Rock in 1914. The Spanish Colonial Revival style Eagle Rock City Hall, built in 1923.. Before the arrival of European settlers, the secluded valley below the San Rafael Hills that is roughly congruent to Eagle Rock's present boundaries was inhabited by the Tongva people, whose staple food was the acorns from the ...
Kentfield (formerly Ross Landing, Tamalpais, and Kent) [5] is a census-designated place (CDP) in Marin County, California, United States, just north of San Francisco. Kentfield is located 2 miles (3 km) southwest of downtown San Rafael, [5] at an elevation of 115 feet (35 m). [3] The population was 6,808 at the 2020 census. [4]
The Marin County Civic Center, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is located in San Rafael, California, the county seat of Marin County, California, United States.. Groundbreaking for the Civic Center Administration Building took place in 1960, after Wright's death and under the watch of Wright's protégé, Aaron Green; it was compl