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Download Fairfax County Adoption Program' title='Download Fairfax County Adoption Program' />Kate Sears. Forticlient Vpn 64 Bit Windows 7'>Forticlient Vpn 64 Bit Windows 7. Dennis Rodoni. Judy Arnold. Area  Total. Land. Water. 30. 8 sq mi 8. Highest elevation22,5. Population April 1, 2. Total. 25. 2,4. 09  Estimate 2. Density. 30. 0sq mi 1. Time zone. Pacific UTC8  Summer DSTPDT UTC7Area codes. Tomales and Dillon Beach onlyFIPS code. GNIS feature ID2. Ezmix 2 Full Version. Websitewww. co. marin. Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U. S. state of California. As of the 2. 01. 0 census, the population was 2. Its county seat is San Rafael. Marin County is included in the San Francisco Oakland Hayward, CA Metropolitan Statistical Area San Francisco Bay Area across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. Marin County is one of the wealthiest localities in the United States, known for its affluence. In May 2. 00. 9, Marin County had the fifth highest income per capita in the United States at about 9. The county is governed by the Marin County Board of Supervisors. The county is also well known for its natural environmentcitation needed and liberal politics. San Quentin Prison is located in the county, as is George Lucas Skywalker Ranch. Autodesk, the publisher of Auto. CAD, is also located there, as well as numerous other high tech companies. The Marin County Civic Center was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and draws thousands of visitors a year to guided tours of its arch and atrium design. In 1. 99. 4, a new county jail facility was embedded into the hillside nearby. Marin Countys natural sites include the Muir Woodsredwood forest, the Marin Headlands, Stinson Beach, the Point Reyes National Seashore, and Mount Tamalpais. The United States oldest cross country running event, the Dipsea Race, takes place annually in Marin County, attracting thousands of athletes. Mountain biking was invented on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in Marin. HistoryeditMarin County is one of the original 2. California, created February 1. California Constitution of 1. Union. 1. 0According to General Mariano Vallejo, who headed an 1. Californias counties, the county was named for Marin, great chief of the tribe Licatiut. Marin had been named Huicmuse until he was baptized as Marino at about age 2. Marin Marino was born into the Huimen people, a Coast Miwok tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the San Rafael area. Vallejo believed that Chief Marin had waged several fierce battles against the Spanish. Marino definitely did reside at Mission Dolores in modern San Francisco much of the time from his 1. Starting in 1. 81. San Rafael Mission, where he lived from 1. In 1. 82. 1, Marino served as an expedition guide for the Spanish for a couple of years before escaping and hiding out for some months in the tiny Marin Islands also named after him his recapture resulted in a yearlong incarceration at the Presidio before his return to the Mission San Rafael area for about 1. Another version of the origin of the county name is that the bay between San Pedro Point and San Quentin Point was named Baha de Nuestra Seora del Rosario la Marinera in 1. Marin is simply an abbreviation of this name. The Coast Miwok Indians were hunters and gatherers whose ancestors had occupied the area for thousands of years. About 6. 00 village sites have been identified in the county. The Coast Miwok numbered in the thousands. Today, there are few left and even fewer with any knowledge of their Coast Miwok lineage. Efforts are being made so that they are not forgotten. Francis Drake and the crew of the Golden Hind was thought to have landed on the Marin coast in 1. Nova Albion. A bronze plaque inscribed with Drakes claim to the new lands, fitting the description in Drakes own account, was discovered in 1. This so called Drakes Plate of Brass was revealed as a hoax in 2. In 1. 59. 5, Sebastian Cermeno lost his ship, the San Agustin, while exploring the Marin Coast. The Spanish explorer Vizcano landed about twenty years after Drake in what is now called Drakes Bay. However the first Spanish settlement in Marin was not established until 1. Mission San Rafael Arcngel was founded partly in response to the Russian built Fort Ross to the north in what is now Sonoma County. Mission San Rafael Arcngel was founded in what is now downtown San Rafael as the 2. Spanish mission in the colonial Mexican province of Alta California by four priests, Father Narciso Duran from Mission San Jose, Father Abella from Mission San Francisco de Ass, Father Gil y Taboada and Father Mariano Payeras, the President of the Missions, on December 1. Mexico gained independence from Spain. GeographyeditAccording to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 8. It is the fourth smallest county in California by land area. According to the records at the County Assessor Recorders Office, as of June 2. Marin had 9. 1,0. These parcels are divided into the following classifications Parcel Type. Tax IDQuantity. Value. Vacant. 10. 6,9. 005. Single Family Residential. Mobile Home. 12. 21. House Boat. 13. 37. Multi Family Residential. Industrial Unimproved. Industrial Improved. Commercial Unimproved. Commercial Improved. The view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin Headlands. Stinson Beach is one of the most popular beaches in West Marin. Geographically, the county forms a large, southward facing peninsula, with the Pacific Ocean to the west, San Pablo Bay, and San Francisco Bay to the east, and across the Golden Gate the city of San Francisco to the south. Marin Countys northern border is with Sonoma County. Most of the countys population resides on the eastern side, with a string of communities running along San Francisco Bay, from Sausalito to Tiburon to Corte Madera to San Rafael. The interior contains large areas of agricultural and open space West Marin, through which State Route 1 runs alongside the California coast, contains many small unincorporated communities whose economies depend on agriculture and tourism. West Marin has beaches which are popular destinations for surfers and tourists year round. Notable features of the shoreline along the San Francisco Bay include the Sausalito shoreline, Richardson Bay, the Tiburon Peninsula, Ring Mountain, and Triangle Marsh at Corte Madera. Further north lies San Quentin State Prison along the San Rafael shoreline. National protected areaseditState and local protected areaseditThe Marin County Department of Parks and Open Space manages numerous county parks and open spaces, including Stafford Lake County Park. The Marin Municipal Water District has 1. State parkseditMarine Protected Areas of Marin CountyeditLike underwater parks, these marine protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems EcologyeditMarin County is considered in the California Floristic Province, a zone of extremely high biodiversity and endemism. There are numerous ecosystems present, including Coastal Strand, oak woodland, mixed evergreen forest, and Coast Redwood Forestschaparral and riparian zones.