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Howell Mountain, California

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Angwin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94508. It stands on Howell Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helena quadrangle. It stands 1,683 feet above sea level.

Howell Mountain within Napa County

Then and now

1942 to 1972

The same ground, surveyed 30 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Howell Mountain, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Howell Mountain, surveyed 1942

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Howell Mountain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73,244 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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/undetermined92
Equipment and vehicle use69
Debris and open burning35
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism10
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWEST
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCLOVER
28 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use67,484 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGLASS
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use29 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCONN
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAS POSADAS
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBUTTS
24 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use16 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCOLLEGE AV ANGWIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Howell Mountain: 5 occurrences, 3 prospects, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Chromium, Manganese. 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
Glass Mountain DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Palisade Mine GrigsbySilver, GoldProducer
Ray's Rock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed LocationIronUnknown
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Glass Mountain DepositStoneOccurrenceObsidian
Moore Creek Manganese Ridge ProspectManganeseProducer
Moore Creek ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Reave Claims Three ClaimsChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Reeve ClaimsChromiumProspect

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
Angwin0.4 miles21
Veteran Heights0.9 miles21
Pope Valley2.6 miles21
Sanitarium2.8 miles21
Deer Park3.5 miles21
Bale3.7 miles24
Larkmead4.1 miles24
Barro4.4 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 Howell MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5921767The 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 1675913. 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.