Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Tiburon, CA

Tiburon takes its name from the Spanish word tiburon, meaning shark, and Spanish explorers named the point Punta de Tiburon in 1775 after the sharks in the surrounding bay waters.

Tiburon sits on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, jutting south into San Francisco Bay, and it is the nearest mainland point to Angel Island, with a regular ferry connecting the town to Angel Island State Park.

Tiburon was a railroad town before it was a suburb - it was the southern terminus of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad, and the last train left Tiburon on September 25, 1967.

Tiburon's Railroad and Ferry Depot Museum is the only surviving dual-use railroad and ferry terminal west of the Hudson River, and it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Tiburon did not incorporate as a town until 1964, even though its first post office had opened back in 1884.

Tiburon had a population of 9,146 at the 2020 census, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Tiburon has about 3,510 households with an average of 2.56 people per household, and about 74.9% of its homes are owner-occupied, Census QuickFacts reports.

Tiburon's median owner-occupied home value tops the Census Bureau's scale at more than $2,000,000, making it one of the most expensive housing markets in the United States.

Old St. Hilary's Church, built in 1888 above downtown Tiburon, stands in a wildflower preserve where the Tiburon paintbrush grows - a flower found almost nowhere else on Earth.

Ring Mountain above Tiburon hosts a cluster of rare endemic plants, including the Tiburon mariposa lily and the Tiburon jewelflower, and preserves rock carvings left by the area's earliest Native American inhabitants.