Marshall, California

For the place formerly with this name in El Dorado County, see Lotus, California.

Marshall
Unincorporated community
Marshall shoreline
Towns of rural western Marin County. Marshall is in red.
Marshall Location within the state of California
Coordinates: 38°9′38″N 122°53′39″W
Country	United States
State	California
County	Marin
Region	West Marin
Government
• County Board	District 4 Dennis Rodoni[1]
• State Senator	Mike McGuire (D)[2]
• Assemblymember	Stephanie Nguyen (D)[2]
• U. S. Rep.	Jared Huffman (D)[3]
Elevation [4]	23 ft (7 m)
Population ^[citation needed]
• Total	400
Time zone	UTC-8 (PST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-7 (PDT)
ZIP code	94940
Area codes	415/628
FIPS code	06-46058
GNIS feature ID	228136

Marshall is an unincorporated community in Marin County, California.^[4] It is located on the northeast shore of Tomales Bay 6 mi (9.7 km) south of Tomales,^[5] at an elevation of 25 ft (7.6 m).^[4]

Marshall is located on the east shore of Tomales Bay. It has a population that is unknown.^[6] It is located approximately 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Bodega Bay, on State Route 1. Its ZIP code is 94940.

The town is named after the Marshalls, four brothers who set up a dairying industry there in the 1850s. Starting in the 1870s, Marshall was a stop on the North Pacific Coast Railroad connecting Cazadero to the Sausalito ferry.

There is still some dairying in the area with Straus Family Creamery based there, but nowadays the town's major commerce is in oysters and clams, for which it is a center. It also acts as a center for tourists visiting Tomales Bay and the neighboring Point Reyes Peninsula.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Tomales Bay Oyster Company

References

1. "County of Marin District 4 webpage". County of Marin. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
2. "Statewide Database". UC Regents. Archived from the original on February 1, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2014.
3. "California's 2nd Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
4. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marshall
5. Durham, David L. (1998). California's Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State. Clovis, Calif.: Word Dancer Press. p. 660. ISBN 1-884995-14-4.
6. "factfinder.census.gov". Archived from the original on June 7, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2006.

Further reading

• Codoni, Fred (2006). Northwestern Pacific Railroad. Arcadia Publishing.

External links

• Information and photographs about Marshall on the Beach California website
• Information about Marshall on the West Marin Chamber of Commerce website