Jewell, California

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox settlement   |name = Jewell |other_name = |native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type =Former Settlement |image_skyline = |imagesize = |image_caption = |pushpin_map =California#USA |pushpin_label_position =bottom |pushpin_mapsize = |pushpin_map_caption =Location in California |pushpin_image=California Locator Map with US.PNG  |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name =[[United States]] |subdivision_type1 = State |subdivision_name1 = [[California]] |subdivision_type2 =County |subdivision_name2 = [[Marin County, California|Marin]] |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = | |established_title =  |established_date = |coordinates = {{coord|38|02|12|N|122|44|45|W|region:US-CA|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis>{{gnis|1658861}}</ref> |elevation_m =24 |elevation_ft =79 |footnotes = }} '''Jewell''' was an [[Unincorporated area#United States|unincorporated community]] in [[Marin County, California|Marin County]], [[California]], United States.<ref name=gnis /> It was located {{convert|11|mi|km|0}} west-southwest of [[Novato, California|Novato]].<ref name=CGN>{{California's Geographic Names|647}}</ref>

In the 1860s, the site was a dairy and pig farm owned by Omar Jewell. When the [[Northwestern Pacific Railroad]] was built nearby, Jewell sold a right-of-way across his land and a [[Request stop|flagstop]] called Jewells was set up on the ranch. In the 1930s, a strip of land between Lagunitas Creek and the Sir Francis Drake Highway was subdivided into small lots where city dwellers built weekend cottages. The settlement became known as Jewell because it lay opposite of the Jewell train flagstop.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Livingston |first1=Dewey |title=The Two Jewells of Marin County |url=https://annetkent.kontribune.com/articles/9212 |publisher=Marin County Library |date=2019 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref name=CGN />

The National Park Service bought the community alongside the creek and removed the few remaining residents. In 2018, an environmental group tore down the cluster of houses and began to restore the creek to improve the habitat for endangered coho salmon.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosato |first1=Joe |title=Marin County Environmentalists Remove Ghost Town to Save Salmon |url=https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/marin-county-environmentalists-remove-ghost-town-to-save-salmon/1960329/ |accessdate=17 August 2020 |agency=NBC Bay Area |date=September 11, 2019}}</ref>

==References==

[[Category:Former settlements in Marin County, California]] [[Category:Former populated places in California]]