Colma

E19127

municipality town

Colma is a small town in San Mateo County, California, best known for its numerous cemeteries and nickname as the "City of Souls."

Aliases (1)

Town of Colma ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	municipality → town →
adjacentTo	El Camino Real → Interstate 280 →
areaCode	650 →
areaTotal	about 2 square miles →
borderedBy	Daly City → San Bruno → South San Francisco →
cemeteryBurialsEstimate	over 1,000,000 →
climate	Mediterranean climate →
country	United States →
countySeatOf	none →
dateOfIncorporation	1924-08-05 →
demographicsCharacteristic	small living population compared to buried population →
elevation	about 130 feet →
governmentType	council–manager government →
hasCemetery	Cypress Lawn Memorial Park → Greek Orthodox Memorial Park → Hills of Eternity Memorial Park → Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery → Italian Cemetery → Japanese Cemetery → Pet’s Rest Cemetery → Serbian Cemetery → Woodlawn Memorial Park →
hasLandUse	cemeteries → light industrial areas → retail centers →
hasNickname	City of Souls → City of the Silent →
hasNotableSite	Serramonte Center vicinity retail corridor →
hasOfficialName	Town of Colma →
hasTransitStation	Colma BART station →
incorporatedAs	town →
knownFor	burial place for San Francisco residents → large number of cemeteries →
locatedIn	California → San Francisco Bay Area → San Mateo County →
locatedInTimeZone	Pacific Time Zone →
numberOfCemeteries	more than 15 →
partOfMetropolitanArea	San Francisco–Oakland–Berkeley metropolitan area →
population	~1500 →
postalCode	94014 →
region	Peninsula region of the San Francisco Bay Area →
servedBy	Bay Area Rapid Transit →
slogan	It’s great to be alive in Colma →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
El Camino Real → Richmond–Millbrae line →	passesThrough
South San Francisco →	borderedBy
Daly City →	borders
Colma ("Town of Colma") →	hasOfficialName