San Anselmo (Spanish for ‘”Saint Anselm”‘) is an incorporated town in Marin County, California, United States. San Anselmo is located 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of San Rafael, at an height of 46 feet (14 m). It is located about 20 miles (32 km) north of San Francisco. The town is bordered by San Rafael to the east, Fairfax to the west, and Ross to the south. Mount Tamalpais dominates the view to the south. The population was 12,830 at the 2020 census.

The estate in and going on for San Anselmo was mostly pastoral until 1874, when the North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) added to its stock a spur track from San Anselmo to San Rafael. In 1875, the railroad completed a heritage from Sausalito to Tomales and north to Cazadero via San Anselmo. For a few years, the town was referred to upon railroad maps as “Junction”, but in 1883 the state San Anselmo came encourage into use. The San Anselmo declare office opened in 1892. Two postal substations were operated: Lansdale, from 1924 to 1962, and Yolanda, from 1924 to 1954.

From 1902 until the to the front 1940s, San Anselmo was allocation 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 railroad’s right of way.
Becoming unprofitable correspondingly of competition from the automobile and the commencement of the Golden Gate Bridge, the railway was officially closed upon March 1, 1941. The last of the major San Anselmo railroad station buildings was razed in 1963, according to the town’s timeline.

The 1913 electric train schedule shows a commute grow old 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.