Colma is a small city in San Mateo County , California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the Bay Area of \u200b\u200bSan Francisco .
The population was 1,191 at the 2000 census. The city was founded as a necropolis in 1924. Much of Colma's land is dedicated to the use of cemeteries. With 17 cemeteries for the interment of human beings and one for pets, the population exceeds the living dead by thousands to one. This has led to the nickname of "the city of the silent" ("the city of the silent") and also led to a slogan funniest among some residents: "It's great to be alive in Colma" ("it's great to be alive in Colma. ") Because of their precarious position along the San Andreas fault , to San Francisco sometimes called "the city waiting to die" ("The City That Waits to Die"), leading to one of the most morbid nicknames Colma: The city expects' the city waiting to die 'to die' ( "The City That Waits 'The City That Waits to Die' to die").
Colma became the location of a large number of cemeteries when San Francisco, the big city neighbor to the north, passed an ordinance in 1900 outlawing the construction of more cemeteries in the city (mainly due to increasing values making the cost of land used for cemeteries prohibitive), then passed another ordinance in 1912 that evicted all existing cemeteries from city limits. (The similar scenario prevails in New York City in Manhattan, where there is only one still active cemetery - the cemetery and crematorium in the Trinity Church at the intersection of the street 150 and Broadway, on the northwestern edge of Harlem). The relocation of cemeteries from San Francisco to Colma is the subject of the rest in second place final: The story of the lost cemeteries of San Francisco, (2005) a documentary by Trina Lopez. [ edit]
Colma History
was briefly called Lawndale, but because there was another city with the name of Lawndale, California and the city changed its name back to Colma in 1941. Originally employed residents of the city especially in occupations related to the many cemeteries in the city. From the 80, Colma has become more diversified, with the variety of service and retail businesses typical of a small town in the United States.
[ edit] Geography and Geology
Colma is located at 37 ° 40 "N, 122 ° 27" W (37.678780, -122.455513) Of '44 of' 20 GR1. According to the office of the United States Census, the city has a total area of \u200b\u200b4.9 km ².
The 17 cemeteries of the city covered about 73% of the land area of \u200b\u200bthe city. Colma is located in the San Francisco Peninsula in the range of hills to the east and north tend the Santa Cruz Mountains .
Hills and eastern flanks of the range is composed largely of marine sediments and fresh water under Pliocene - Quaternary Poorly consolidated formations including Colma and Merced , recent casting of the slope, the fill of the ravine, colluvium, and alluvium. These deposits, surficial, inconsistent, and unduly much older Jurassic to the junction Cretaceous Franciscan older. An old embankment about 135 feet deep exists at the site developed by the 260,000 square foot mixed in the center of meter use.
[ edit] Demographics
In December 2006, Colma had "1,500 residents on earth ... and 1.5 million underground." Formally, a la fecha el censo GR2 del 2000, había 1.191 personas, 329 casas, y 245 familias que residían en la ciudad. La densidad demográfica era de 240,8 /km² (624.6/mi). Había 342 unidades de cubierta en una densidad media del ² de los 69.1/km (² 179.4/mi). La divición racial de la ciudad era 45.36% blancos , 2.43% afroamericanos , 25.68% asiáticos , 1.25% isleños pacíficos, 18.48% de otras razas, y 8.80% a partir de dos o más razas. Hispanos o Latinos de cualquier raza era 47.91% de la población
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