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The “Definitive List of San Francisco Hills” is drawn from the maps, publications and on-line resources included below, listed in chronological order.\u00a0 The author thanks the\u00a0Norman B. Leventhal Map Center Collection of the Boston Public Library<\/a>, the David Rumsey Map Collection and Picture Box Blue<\/a> for use of their digital map collections; the San Francisco Public Library for use of its online and reference desk resources; and to those preceding chroniclers below who contributed so much to the cause.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Maps<\/b><\/p>

Bridgen\u2019s 1854 Map of the City of San Francisco<\/a>.\u00a0 The city’s considerably smaller boundaries in 1854 included only three listed hills: Cannon Hill (now Pacific Heights), Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill.\u00a0<\/p>

Wackenreuder’s 1861 City and County of San Francisco Map<\/a>.\u00a0 The city’s new southern boundary had been established, but the developed portion of the city was still limited to the N.E. corner of the peninsula.\u00a0 The only hill within San Francisco specifically identified is Bernal Heights.\u00a0 The map shows the Black Hills (Bayview Hill and Merced Heights), Mission Hills (Diamond Heights and Noe\/Castro area hills) and Sand Hills (the dunes now buried beneath the Richmond and Sunset districts).\u00a0<\/p>

Bancroft\u2019s Official Guide Map of City and County of San Francisco, 1873 edition.<\/a>\u00a0 The city was growing into its modern boundaries.\u00a0 Bancroft’s map emphasizes schools, churches, parks and other important buildings, but assigns little touristic import to still bare hilltops. 13 hills are identified by name or reference to the park\/square\/cemetery atop the hill: Alamo Square (Alamo Heights), Bernal Heights, Black Point (now Fort Mason Hill), Buena Vista Park (Buena Vista Heights), Clay Street Hill (now Nob Hill), Holly Park (Holly Hill), Lafayette Square (Lafayette Heights), Laurel Hill Cemetery (Laurel Hill), Lone Mountain, Pacific Heights (specifying the parallel streets of California and Broadway), Rincon Hill, Russian Hill and Telegraph Hill.\u00a0 Cannon Hill was no longer a named place on maps, possibly because no cannon was still situated at that location.\u00a0 The 1877 edition of Bancroft’s map drops Pacific Heights entirely.\u00a0<\/p>

Parsons\u2019 1878 Birds Eye View of San Francisco<\/a>.\u00a0 Fun to look at.\u00a0 Lone Mountain, topped by a cross, appears as the most prominent hill in San Francisco.<\/p>

Combined\u00a0USGS Topographic Sheets for San Francisco 1895 and San Mateo 1896<\/a>.\u00a0 Newly identified hills are Blue Mountain (now Mt. Sutro), Las Papas (now Twin Peaks), San Miguel Hills (encompassing Mt. Davidson and other hills south of Twin Peaks) and Strawberry Hill.\u00a0<\/p>

Umbsen’s 1898 Map of the City and County of San Francisco<\/a>. Use the overlay tool to adjust the opacity of a recent google street map to reveal which of the aspirational street layouts from 1898 came to fruition.\u00a0 The map also usefully features many of the homestead tract names, showing early neighborhood demarcations.\u00a0<\/p>

Chevalier\u2019s 1912 Commercial, Pictoral and Tourist Map of San Francisco<\/a>.\u00a0 This excellent map combines topography with mini-drawings of significant places and contains many street names in use today.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>

Peter\u2019s 1914 San Francisco Locator Map<\/a>.\u00a0 Prepared for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, this birds-eye-view of the city now includes Forest Hill and University Mound.\u00a0 Fort Mason is now the place name for Black Point, which remains “forgotten” for nearly a century.<\/p>

US Coast and Geodetic Survey of 1924<\/a>.\u00a0 The highest point in the city finally bears its current name, Mt. Davidson.\u00a0 Elevations are given for 28 of the city’s hills, and these elevations are commonly cited today.\u00a0<\/p>

Published Lists<\/strong><\/p>

The Hills of San Francisco<\/em><\/a> (1936) by Margaret Perkins Deering.\u00a0 This booklet is the earliest published list of hills found by this author.\u00a0 Deering is the progenitor of the avocation of hill census taking, telling the stories of the most significant hills in the life of San Francisco, mentioning 18 hills in all.\u00a0 A physical copy is available at the reference desk of the History Dept. at the San Francisco Public Library.\u00a0<\/p>

Hills of San Francisco<\/em> (1959), Chronicle Books.\u00a0 This (thin) table book collects articles appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle from 1957-1958, with the forward by Herb Caen.\u00a0\u00a0 Covering 42 hills along with excellent photography, descriptions of the various hills include numerous accounts of the city\u2019s resident characters and oddly specific anthropological reporting (e.g., we are told about life in the orphanage located on Mount St. Joseph, where \u201cthree to four girls share a bedroom and dine with other girls from their apartments.\u00a0 Among the teen-agers radios blare, phonograph records spin, and the talk is just like the talk of other girls the same age.\u201d)\u00a0 Currently out of print, a physical copy is available in the History Dept. of the San Francisco Public Library.<\/p>

SF Almanac<\/em> (1975 edition) by Gladys Hansen.\u00a0 Ms. Hansen, famous for working to remember all \u00a0the lives lost in the 1906 earthquake and fire, included a list with 43 hills in the almanac, adding Cathedral Hill to those hills included in the SF Chronicle’s Hills of San Francisco<\/em>.\u00a0 With conviction, Ms. Hansen declared these to be the “Seven Hills” of San Francisco: Telegraph Hill, Nob Hill, Rincon Hill, the Twin Peaks, Russian Hill, Lone Mountain and Mt. Davidson.\u00a0<\/p>

Hank Donat republished the SF Chronicle’s list on his MisterSF.com blog<\/a>\u00a0in 2001, adding Tank Hill to the list without including Hansen’s added Cathedral Hill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Tom Graham\u2019s article \u201cPeak Experience\u201d<\/a> (Nov. 7, 2004, updated Jan. 19, 2012), brought the number of listed hills to 52 (including both Cathedral Hill and Tank Hill).\u00a0 Graham conveys the satisfaction of walking the hills and truly seeing the city in this companion piece<\/a>.<\/p>

Dave Schweisguth\u2019s \u201cHow Many Hills in San Francisco\u201d<\/a> (2007) is an incredibly thorough (but, as we shall see, not yet exhaustive) accounting of the city\u2019s hills, including obvious hills that for whatever reason never achieved named status.\u00a0 Schwiesguth tallies 74 hills, 71 on San Francisco\u2019s mainland and 3 more on the city’s Farallon and Yerba Buena islands.<\/p>

Brian Stokle’s “Forgotten Hills” series (ca. 2013) on his Urban Life Signs<\/a> blog reintroduces Black Point (now Fort Mason Hill) and introduces\u00a0 Hunters Point Hill and La Portezuela to the list.<\/p>

Shawn Sax’s “Definitive List of San Francisco Hills” (2021) collects, (in some cases) corrects and re-sorts all of the above.\u00a0 Leaving no stone un-peed-upon, Sax adds Battery Davis to the city’s inventory of hills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

Special shout out to Ben Pease, San Francisco\u2019s own local cartographer with numerous map titles available at www.peasepress.com and finer city book stores. Pease\u2019s 2019 The Walker\u2019s Map of San Francisco (4th ed.) is a wonderful street and trail guide with topographical contours.\u00a0 For anybody seeking to climb the city’s hills The Walker’s Map is its own treasure.\u00a0 Ben also happens to be a warm and helpful guy, so support Ben and your local bookshop by buying a few copies for yourself and friends!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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