Millbrae used a private patrol financed by fees from merchants and residents until 1941, when the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors created the Millbrae Police District.

The Millbrae Fire Department has administratively merged with the San Bruno Fire Department as of 2008.

Most of the Peninsula is occupied by San Mateo County, between San Francisco and Santa Clara counties, and including the cities and towns of Atherton, Belmont, Brisbane, Burlingame, Colma, Daly City, East Palo Alto, El Granada, Foster City, Hillsborough, La Honda, Menlo Park, Millbrae, Montara, Pacifica, Pescadero, Portola Valley, Redwood City, San Bruno, San Carlos, San Gregorio, San Mateo, South San Francisco, and Woodside.

Millbrae is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States, just west of San Francisco Bay, with San Bruno on the north and Burlingame on the south.

The former Mills estate was bordered by what is now Skyline Boulevard, Bayshore Highway U. S. Route 101, Millbrae Avenue and Trousdale Drive.

Millbrae is also the home of Green Hills Country Club which was designed by famed golf course architect Dr. Alister MacKenzie ( who designed other noteworthy courses such as Augusta National, Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne, Pasatiempo, and many more ).

Millbrae has a total area of, of which, is land and ( 0. 36 %) is water.

In the state legislature Millbrae is located in the 8th Senate District, represented by Democrat Leland Yee, and in the 19th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jerry Hill.

Federally, Millbrae is located in California's 12th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D + 22 and is currently held by Jackie Speier, who won in a special election to fill the vacancy left by Tom Lantos upon his death.

Millbrae has one public high school, Mills High School, which is part of the San Mateo Union High School District.

Although surrounded by land that is part of Millbrae, nearby Capuchino High School is located in San Bruno.

Mills High School is situated about a block away from the southern border of Millbrae with Burlingame.

Millbrae is located between San Francisco and San Jose.

San Francisco International Airport is a major international airport located south of downtown San Francisco, California, United States, near the cities of Millbrae and San Bruno in unincorporated San Mateo County.

* Mills robotics team, A Robotics Team that participates in the 2007 FIRST Competition, and is located in Millbrae, California

Millbrae, the home of Ayr Rugby Club since 1964, is also located in Alloway.

Route 82, referred to by local residents almost always as " El Camino ," runs through a number of cities on the Peninsula, including Palo Alto ( passing by Stanford University ), San Carlos, San Mateo, Burlingame, and Millbrae, and it is a central artery of the Peninsula communities through which it passes.

The village population is roughly 300, and includes surrounding areas of Millbrae, Fountainhead and Ardtun.

The company, now known as Taylormade Hair Replacement, is still active in Millbrae.

On January 1, 2008, this line became identified on maps as the Richmond – Millbrae Line, which includes service to / from all the stations between Daly City and Millbrae ( with the exception of the San Francisco International Airport which is served by the Pittsburg Bay Point Line during all periods of operations ) on weekdays only.

It is used by the Richmond – Millbrae line, the Pittsburg / Bay Point – SFO line, the Fremont – Daly City line, and the Dublin / Pleasanton – Daly City line.

Records of the Internal Revenue Service document the licensing of several Millbrae bars for gambling ; only after incorporation were gambling laws enforced in Millbrae and not until the 1950s was gambling defeated.

Spurred largely by the desire to secure the Mills ' estate for residential use and by the efforts of Millbrae's weekly newspaper, the Millbrae Sun, residents heatedly discussed incorporation for over a decade before voting to incorporate.

Millbrae has a reputation for having some of the best schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Millbrae Intermodal Station serves as a major transit hub for the Peninsula, connecting the BART, Caltrain, and SamTrans networks.

In June 2003 a passenger connection for the Bay Area Rapid Transit ( BART ) and Caltrain systems opened at Millbrae station just south of the San Francisco International Airport.

In 1958 Taylor and his wife, Dora, moved to Millbrae, California, and began making hairpieces by hand based on a hairpiece Taylor made for himself in the early 1940s.

The original service plan for this line was for trains to go straight from San Bruno to Millbrae, travel to the airport, and then go back towards San Francisco.

Before BART service was extended farther south to Colma in 1996 and Millbrae in 2003, Daly City Station was the only BART station in San Mateo County as opposed to mostly San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties and served as the terminal station ( now at Millbrae ) on the San Francisco Peninsula for the BART system.

Technically, Fremont and Dublin / Pleasanton passengers coming out of the Millbrae / SFO line can transfer for trains at Daly City because Platforms 1 and 4 are for East Bay passengers.

Before BART service was extended southward to Millbrae in 2003, Colma served as the terminal station ( now at Millbrae ) on the San Francisco Peninsula for the BART system.

This station is still the transfer point for Fremont passengers bounding to and from SFO / Millbrae at nights and on weekends.

Like the Oakland City Center / 12th Street station, the concourse mezzanine is on the first level down, an island platform and two main tracks for trains bound for Richmond and Pittsburg / Bay Point are on the second level down, and a side platform and one main track for trains bound for San Francisco / Daly City / Millbrae / SFO and Fremont are on the third level down.

Passengers from Millbrae bound for Fremont transfer trains at 12th Street and passengers from the Fremont line transfer the Pittsburg / Bay Point line at 12th Street on nights and weekends.

Harmon, for his Oakland Lake Merrit Estate ( which later became Lakeside Park ); Frederick Delger ; Frank M. Smith ; Darius Ogden Mills ( Millbrae ); and Luther Burbank, for his own experiments with plant germination ( Santa Rosa ).

In the 1950s, Millbrae residents united to resist efforts to divide the city by the planned Junipero Serra Freeway ( I-280 ), which was later routed parallel to Junipero Serra Boulevard, then through a canyon in San Bruno up to Skyline Boulevard.

From the turn of the century, the # 40 " interurban " streetcar traveled through Millbrae, linking the city with San Francisco and San Mateo.

Millbrae School District oversees four public elementary schools ( Meadows, Green Hills, Spring Valley, and Lomita Park ) and one middle school ( Taylor Middle School, named after the family that owned land along Taylor Boulevard prior to the city being laid out ).

Because of its close proximity to San Francisco International Airport and to the city of San Francisco, and its advanced transit center that can connect people to all major cities / events in the Bay Area, many tourists opt to stay in Millbrae.

In 1918 the constituency consisted of " That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre of Kilmarnock Road, thence northward along the centre line of Kilmarnock Road to the centre line of the River Cart, thence south-eastward and eastward along the centre line of the River Cart to the centre line of Langside Road at Millbrae Bridge, thence north-eastward along the centre line of Langside Road, Millbrae Road and Langside Road, to the centre line of the main avenue in the Queen's Park near Victoria Infirmary, thence northward along the centre line of the said main avenue to the centre line of Queen's Drive, thence northward along the centre line of Victoria Road to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway about 46 yards north of the centre line of Butterbiggins Road, thence north-eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of the Caledonian Railway Main Line from Glasgow to Rutherglen, thence south-eastward along the centre line of the said Caledonian Railway to the municipal boundary, thence south-westward and westward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement "

From 1918 the constituency consisted of " That portion of the city which is bounded by a line commencing at a point on the municipal boundary at the centre line of the Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway, thence eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and Paisley Joint Railway and the Caledonian Railway to the centre line of Shields Road, thence southward along the centre line of Shields Road to the centre line of the Glasgow and South Western Railway ( Paisley Canal Line ), thence, eastward along the centre line of the said Glasgow and South Western Railway to the centre line of Eglinton Street, thence southward along the centre line of Eglinton Street and Victoria Road to the centre line of Queen's Drive, thence southward along the centre line of the main avenue in the Queen's Park to the centre line of Langside Road, thence south-westward along the centre line of Langside Road to the centre line of Millbrae Road, thence south-westward along the centre line of Millbrae Road and Langside Road to the centre line of the River Cart at Millbrae Bridge, thence westward and north-westward along the centre line of the River Cart to the centre line of Kilmarnock Road, thence southward along the centre line of Kilmarnock Road to the municipal boundary, thence northwestward, south-westward, northward, westward and northward along the municipal boundary to the point of commencement.