Place:Colma, San Mateo, California, United States

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NameColma
TypeTown
Coordinates37.679°N 122.456°W
Located inSan Mateo, California, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Eternal Home Cemetery
Greek Orthodox Memorial Park
Greenlawn Memorial Park
Hills of Eternity Memorial Park
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
Italian Cemetery
Olivet Memorial Park ( 1896 - )
Serbian Cemetery ( 1901 - )
Woodlawn Memorial Park ( 1904 - )
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Colma (Ohlone for "Springs")[1] is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,507 at the 2020 census. The town was founded as a necropolis in 1924.

With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead—not specifically known but speculated to be around 1.5 million—outnumbers that of the living by a ratio of nearly a thousand to one. This has led to Colma being called "the City of the Silent" and has given rise to a humorous motto, formerly featured on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma".[2]

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