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Lokoya, California

23 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 lies near The Cove. The Survey maps it on the Sonoma quadrangle. It stands 1,765 feet above sea level.

Lokoya 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 Lokoya, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Lokoya, surveyed 1902

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Lokoya between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60,865 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined135
Equipment and vehicle use87
Debris and open burning26
Smoking21
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
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 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBARCELONA
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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Lokoya: 11 past producers, 8 producers, 7 prospects, 4 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, 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
Reltane DepositClayProspect
Search GroupCopperProspect
Trinity QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
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

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lokoya in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 2 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
January 2018Debris FlowLokoya-Uphill slippage reported on Redwood Road at mile marker 3.5 on the perimeter of the Nuns Fire burn scar. Exact time of occurrence is unknown.
January 2017Debris FlowLokoya-Mud slide covering west bound lane of Dry Creek Rd.

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
Enchanted Hills0.7 miles25
Yountville4.1 miles25
Caymus (historical)4.1 miles25
Oakville4.6 miles25
Oak Knoll5.0 miles25
Rutherford5.9 miles25
Salvador6.1 miles25
Union7.2 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 LokoyaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6668758The 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 1658997. 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.