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Enchanted Hills, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Napa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94558. It stands on Elkington Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rutherford quadrangle. It stands 1,073 feet above sea level.

Enchanted Hills within Napa County

Then and now

1902 to 1983

The same ground, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Enchanted Hills, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Enchanted Hills, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Enchanted Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59,864 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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/undetermined130
Equipment and vehicle use85
Debris and open burning25
Smoking21
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
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
9 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVETS HOME YOUNTVILLE
9 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCAVEDALE
8 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHENSLEY
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHOFFMAN
8 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSHERMAN
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSOLANO AV / DARMS LN 5
6 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVETS HOME YOUNTVILLE
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unit29

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Enchanted Hills: 10 past producers, 9 producers, 9 prospects, 4 occurrences. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Mercury, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
McLaughlin MineSilver, Gold, Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic, Titanium, Metal, Tungsten, Boron-BoratesProducer1978, 1985
Mcgill Rock and SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Search GroupCopperProspect
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed ProspectAluminumProspect
Valley of the MoonFlagstonePast Producer
Bacon and Kenney ProspectManganeseProspect
Bacon and Kenney ProspectManganeseProspect
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomitePast Producer
Mt Pisgah VineyardDiatomiteUnknown

Every working 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
Lokoya0.7 miles23
Caymus (historical)3.7 miles25
Yountville3.7 miles25
Oakville3.9 miles25
Oak Knoll5.1 miles25
Rutherford5.2 miles25
Salvador6.3 miles25
Zinfandel6.9 miles25

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 Enchanted HillsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5375371The 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 1658502. 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.