Colma is a small incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 1,792 at the 2010 census. The town was founded as a necropolis in 1924.

     With most of Colma's land dedicated to cemeteries, the population of the dead outnumber the living by over a thousand to one. This has led to it being called, "the city of the silent," and also has given rise to a humorous motto, now recorded on the city's website: "It's great to be alive in Colma."

     According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.9 sq mi (4.9 km2), all of it land. The town's 17 cemeteries comprise approximately 73% of the town's land area.

     Colma is situated on the San Francisco Peninsula on the eastern foothills of the northwest trending Santa Cruz Mountain Range. The foothills and eastern flanks of the range are composed largely of poorly consolidated Pliocene-Quaternary freshwater and shallow marine sediments that include the Colma and Merced Formations, recent slope wash, ravine fill, colluvium, and alluvium. These surficial deposits unconformably overlay the much older Jurassic to Cretaceous-aged Franciscan Assemblage. An old landfill about 135 deep existed at the site developed by the 260,000 sq ft (24,000 m2) mixed use Metro Center. Colma Creek flows through the city as it makes its way from San Bruno Mountain to San Francisco Bay.

-Wikipedia.org

Links for Colma

Town of Colma

Chamber of Commerce

Transportation

San Francisco International Airport

BART

San Mateo County Transit District