San Quentin

San Quentin is a small unincorporated community in , United States. It is located west of Point San Quentin, at an elevation of 30 feet.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: unincorporated community in Marin County, California
  • Also known as: San Quentin, CA” and “San Quentin, California
  • Postal codes: 94964 and 94974

Places of Interest

Highlights include San Quentin Rehabilitation Center and Larkspur station.

Prison
, formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of in the unincorporated place of San Quentin in .

Railway station
is a Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit station in . The terminal station opened to revenue service on December 14, 2019. It is located 1⁄3 mile from the Larkspur Landing ferry terminal, across Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. is situated 1½ miles west of San Quentin.

Island
is a former island in , , formerly in the Corte Madera Creek but now surrounded by land. Its coordinates are, and the United States Geological Survey measured its elevation as 13 ft in 1981.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Paradise Cay and Greenbrae.

Hamlet
, also known as County Service Area No. 29, is an unincorporated enclave, surrounded by the town of in , United States, located 2 miles south of Point San Quentin at an elevation of 23 feet. is situated 2 miles south of San Quentin.

Hamlet
is a small unincorporated community in , . It is located 1.5 miles south-southeast of downtown , at an elevation of 33 feet, and adjacent to U.S. Route 101 at the opening of the . is situated 2 miles west of San Quentin.

The "twin cities" of are a pair of towns in in the San Francisco Bay Area of . Larkspur is the main gateway to Marin by ferry, while Corte Madera is known for upscale shopping.

San Quentin

Latitude
37.94126° or 37° 56′ 29″ north
Longitude
-122.4848° or 122° 29′ 5″ west
Elevation
30 feet (9 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US QT2
Open location code
849VWGR8+G3
Geo­Names ID
5392564
Wiki­data ID
Q7415190
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Highlights include Shoreline Band Park and Point San Quentin.

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