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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Inverness is an
unincorporated community and census-designated place CDP located in
western Marin County, California. Inverness is located on the southwest
shore of Tomales Bay 3.5 miles 5.6 km northwest of Point Reyes Station,
at an elevation of 43 feet 13 m.In the 2000 census, the population was
1,421. The community is named after Inverness in Scotland by a Scots
landowner. Inverness is north of San Francisco, on a bay of the Pacific
Ocean. Inverness is located on the west shore of Tomales Bay, which runs
southeast along the line of the San Andreas Fault. Surrounded by Point
Reyes National Seashore, it is primarily a residential community, with
little industry other than tourism. It has a small downtown area with a
general store, post office, library, two restaurants and two gift shops.
A third restaurant is located a short way north of downtown. There are
also a number of hotels and inns spread throughout the town. One aspect
of the town is a concentration of recreational and some commercial
boating.
