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Calistoga, California

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Calistoga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94515. It lies near Kortum Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Calistoga quadrangle. 5,228 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 348 feet above sea level.

Calistoga within Napa County

Then and now

1927 to 1997

The same ground, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Calistoga, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet of Calistoga, surveyed 1927

Compare 1927 against another survey:

On record in Calistoga

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 records

Population over time

2 figures

Calistoga grew from 5,155 to 5,228 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,155
20205,228+73 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Calistoga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104,825 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined87
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning29
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCLOVER
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFRANZ
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING WHITE 2
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTOOHEY
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTOLL
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBENTLEY
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use67,484 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGLASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Calistoga: 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Clay, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
CalistogaGeothermalUnknown
Palisade MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Search GroupCopperOccurrence
Silverado-Palisade DepositGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, Zinc, MercuryPast Producer1858
CalistogaSilver, GoldProducer
PalisadeSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, MercuryPast Producer
Porter Creek RoadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Porter Creek RoadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed LocationSilverUnknown
Mark West Shale QuarryStoneProducer

Every working recorded in Napa County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calistoga in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 1 flood, 1 debris flow, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1996FloodCalistoga1 killedno account filed
February 2017Debris FlowCalistoga-Mud/rocks on Petrified Forest Rd/SR128.
June 2017HailCalistoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Napa County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodleaf1.6 miles24
Larkmead3.3 miles24
Bale4.0 miles24
Barro5.9 miles21
Sanitarium6.0 miles21
Deer Park6.6 miles21
Krug6.7 miles21
Howell Mountain6.8 miles21

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CalistogaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q983598The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 277482. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.