Town of San Anselmo View of San Anselmo View of San Anselmo Town of San Anselmo is positioned in the US Town of San Anselmo - Town of San Anselmo San Anselmo is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, in the United States.
San Anselmo is positioned 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of San Rafael, at an altitude of 46 feet (14 m). It is positioned about 20 miles (32 km) north of San Francisco.
Neighboring suburbs include San Rafael to the east, Fairfax to the west, and Ross to the south.
The territory in and around San Anselmo was mostly pastoral until 1874, when the North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) added to its line a spur track from San Anselmo to San Rafael.
In 1875, the barns instead of a line from Sausalito to Tomales and north to Cazadero via San Anselmo.
For a several years, the town was referred to on barns maps as "Junction", but in 1883 the name San Anselmo came back into use.
The San Anselmo postal service opened in 1892. Two postal substations were directed : Lansdale, from 1924 to 1962, and Yolanda, from 1924 to 1954. From 1902 until the early 1940s, San Anselmo was part of Marin's Northwestern Pacific (in 1907, investors formed the NWP) Electric Train system. The Miracle Mile's and Center Boulevard's current "raised roadbed" were the barns 's right of way.
The last of the primary San Anselmo barns station buildings was razed in 1963, as stated to the town's timeline.
The 1913 electric train schedule shows a commute time from San Anselmo to the Sausalito Ferry to the Ferry Building in San Francisco of a mere 58 minutes, including the 32-minute ferry transit. San Anselmo incorporated on April 9, 1907.
Its name came from the Punta de Quintin territory grant, which marked the valley as the Canada del Anselmo, or Valley of Anselm, Anselm being the name of a Native American who was buried in the area.
San Anselmo was a silent film capital in the early 1900s.
On March 12, 1974, San Anselmo officially became a town.
The town features in the song "Snow in San Anselmo" by Irish-born singer/songwriter Van Morrison, about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living in Fairfax, near San Anselmo, in the 1970s.
San Anselmo's most prominent resident, movie director George Lucas, used some of the proceeds from his film American Graffiti to buy an old Victorian home in San Anselmo; his then-wife Marcia Lucas titled it "Parkhouse." Lucas worked on his Star Wars script for two and a half years, writing much of it at the back of his San Anselmo home in a room he shared with a gaudy Wurlitzer jukebox.
In 1977, Lucas screened an early version of Star Wars, without instead of special effects, at his San Anselmo home for a small group of Hollywood friends, including the producer Alan Ladd, Jr., administrators Steven Spielberg, Brian De - Palma, and Martin Scorsese, and screenwriters Jay Cocks, Willard Huyck, and Gloria Katz. All but a sliver of San Anselmo lies inside the 28-square-mile (73 km2) Ross Valley Watershed that flows into San Francisco Bay.
The principal waterway of the town's portion of the watershed is San Anselmo Creek, a branch of Corte Madera Creek.
Two of San Anselmo Creek's tributaries, Sleepy Hollow Creek and Sorich Creek, also flow through the town, as do East Fork Creek and West Fork Creek, Sorich Creek's two tributaries. There are three chief roads running through San Anselmo.
A large part of southern and San Anselmo is assembled on a natural floodplain.
About every 15 23 years, heavy rains cause San Anselmo Creek to flood the center of town by up to 4 feet - 1925, 1940 (11.38" rainfall in 3 days), 1963, January 1982, as well as December 30/31, 2005.
San Anselmo's historic raised barns bed (now Center Boulevard), acts as a dike, providing some flood protection to the west-side homes, upstream of the company district.
Most of the downtown antique and boutique stores and restaurants, for which San Anselmo is well known, are along the banks of San Anselmo Creek.
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that San Anselmo had a populace of 12,336.
The ethnic makeup of San Anselmo was 11,134 (90.3%) White, 106 (0.9%) African American, 40 (0.3%) Native American, 437 (3.5%) Asian, 26 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 164 (1.3%) from other competitions, and 429 (3.5%) from two or more competitions.
There were 5,243 homeholds, out of which 1,695 (32.3%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 2,607 (49.7%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 471 (9.0%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 173 (3.3%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
The populace was spread out with 2,879 citizens (23.3%) under the age of 18, 500 citizens (4.1%) aged 18 to 24, 2,804 citizens (22.7%) aged 25 to 44, 4,492 citizens (36.4%) aged 45 to 64, and 1,661 citizens (13.5%) who were 65 years of age or older.
8,849 citizens (71.7% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3,434 citizens (27.8%) lived in rental housing units.
In the town the populace was spread out with 21.8% under the age of 18, 4.4% from 18 to 24, 31.4% from 25 to 44, 31.1% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
San Anselmo Town Hall San Anselmo has a council-manager form of government, in which an propel town council creates policy and hires a town manager to implement the policy.
San Anselmo's current mayor is Ford Greene and the town manager is Debra Stutsman. The town of San Anselmo is the second-most Democratic political subdivision in Marin County (behind only Fairfax).
According to the Secretary of State of California, as of October 22, 2012, San Anselmo has 8,622 registered voters.
In the United States House of Representatives, San Anselmo is in California's 2nd congressional district, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. From 2008 to 2012, Huffman represented Marin County in the California State Assembly.
In the California State Legislature, San Anselmo is in: The facility was positioned between the road and San Anselmo Creek and had 23 to 45 men stationed there. There were two batteries composed of four-inch antiaircraft cannon manned by five soldiers on a 24-hour basis.
During World War II, "air raid wardens", like Zinnia and Alfred Heiden of San Francisco Blvd, patrolled their assigned neighborhood amid eveningtime "air raid drills" to notify neighbors of any light that showed out of their homes.
In the late afternoon of November 2, 1941, five weeks before the US entered the war, San Anselmo inhabitants were startled when two low-flying Curtiss P-40 warplanes roared up the valley at just above roof level and crashed into the east side of Bald Hill (often incorrectly reported as Mount Baldy or Bald Mountain) at 5:40pm.
They were under the wintertime marine layer of low clouds that are common in the Marin County area, searching for close-by Hamilton Field to land. Truax Field / Dane County Regional Airport, positioned in Madison, WI was titled in memory of Lt.
Mary Ann Shaffer (1934 2008), American writer, lived and died in San Anselmo.
San Anselmo is home to a range of schools: Hidden Valley Elementary School, Ross Valley School District, grades K-5 San Domenico School, co-ed pre-kindergarten through 12th San Anselmo, CA.
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