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To sort

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Good as is

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  • Removed from Marin communities template;
  • Black Point duplicate entry for Black Point-Green Point, California, a CDP;
  • Removed from Marin communities template;


  • Expanded and categorized as former settlement

Notable, but should be expanded

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  • Reclassified as recreational facility


  • Olumpali former Indian village; needs a re-write; should be re-categorized?
  • Taylorville Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR but evidence of community here. [4]
  • Tocaloma Durham calls it a locality on the Northwestern Pacific RR. Site of post office and resort hotel [5]


Questionable notability

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  • Almonte seems to be a neighborhood of Mill Valley. Street addresses are Mill Valley. Started as a rail station, Mill Valley Junction [6].
  • Redirect to Mill Valley
  • Cerro Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR. Looks like a neighborhood of San Raphael. Redirect?
  • El Campo Not a community; resort area built by railroad; perhaps rewrite as recreation site [7]
  • Rewrite and reclassify as recreation facility
  • Lagunitas also listed as part of the Lagunitas-Forest Knolls CDP. How to handle???
  • Lairds Landing homestead of Miwo/Filipino family is a national historical landmark. recategorize? [8]
  • Merge and redirect to Point Reyes National Seashore
  • Flagged for questionable notability
  • Reclassify as restaurant and resort
  • Paradise Cay upscale housing development of 200 homes; surrounded by Tiburon; redirect?
  • Flagged for questionable notability
  • Reclassify as school and historical landmark
  • Seahaven not listed in Durham; appears to be a residential development; no indication of notability;
  • Tamalpais Valley Junction originally a RR junction; Durham calls it a locality; [10]
  • Redirect to Mill Valley



  • Bothin not a community; formerly a charitable convalescent home and currently a Girl Scout camp; [11]; [12]
  • Rewrote as former hospital and Girl Scout camp
  • Fairford Durham calls it a post office established briefly at Pacheco Station on the Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Laverne post office in Mill Valley, 1909-1914;
  • Redirect to La Verne, Ca.
  • Machin post office near Novato 1896-1904
  • Point Reyes post office that was moved around to various ranches;

Not notable

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  • Bivalve Durham calls it a rail station built at site of oyster farm; no evidence it was ever a community.
  • Blakes Landing Durham calls it a locality named after rancher who owned the land; no evidence of a community;
  • Burdell Durham calls it a locality on the Northwestern Pacific RR. Gudde calls it a station named after early Marin settler;
  • Redirect to Novato
  • Chapman not listed in Durham; a neighborhood of Corte Madera.
  • Redirect to Cote Madera
  • Cypress Grove Durham calls it a locality along the Northwestern Pacific RR. Site of Audubon research center but no evidence it was ever a community.
  • Dewitt Not listed in Durham; no indication of notability; not even clear what it is;
  • Five Brooks Durham calls it a locality; old topo maps show a couple nearby structures and nothing else. there is a five Brooks ranch in the vicinity;
  • Gallinas Durham calls it a locality on the Northwestern Pacific RR. No evidence of notability.
  • Redirect to Novato
  • Redirected to Mill Valley
  • Homestead Valley duplicate with CDP Tamalpais-Homestead Valley? no other notability.
  • Redirected to Tamalpais-Homestead Valley CDP
  • Kent Woodlands not in Durham; an HOA in the town of Kentfield. Nothing notable. Redirect?
  • Redirected to Kentfield
  • Las Gallinas once a Mexican land grant and a ranch; no evidence it was a separate community; now a neighborhood of San Rafael;
  • Redirected to San Rafael
  • Removed from Marine County communities template as duplicate of CDP.
  • Manzanita Durham calls it a locality on the Northwestern Pacific RR. No evidence of a separate community; local addresses are all Mill Valley.
  • Marinwood already included as part of Lucas Valley-Marinwood CDP.
  • Redirected to Lucas Valley-Marinwood CDP
  • McDonald a ranch at one time; not mentioned by Durham; [13]
  • Meadowsweet originally a dairy farm; now a neighborhood of Corte Madera; [14]
  • Millerton Durhams list as a locality named for a large wharf owned by James Miller;
  • Murray Park looks like a neighborhood of Kentfield; no other information;
  • Redirected to Larskspur as result of AFD; this could be a mistake;
  • Ocean Roar Durham calls it a location on the Northwestern Pacific RR; no other indications; nothing there now;
  • Old Town historical district of Novato; redirect;
  • Redirected to Novato
  • Reed locality alongside Northwestern Pacific RR; now a neighborhood in Tiburon; nothing notable; redirect?
  • Reynolds Durham calls it a locality on the Northwestern Pacific RR. No evidence that it was ever a community.
  • Sacramento Landing Durham calls it a locality;
  • San Antonio not listed in Durham; it was a township in Marin County; no other information;
  • Shafter Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Strawberry Manor residential neighborhood of CDP Strawberry; [15]
  • Redirect to Strawberry CDP
  • Vincent Landing Durham calls it a locality;
  • Waldo Durham calls it a locality; redirect to Waldo Grade?



  • Forbes Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Garcia Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Golf Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Irving Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Locust
  • already redirected to Mill Valley;
  • Mailliard Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.
  • Miller Durham calls it a locality on Northwestern Pacific RR.