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Napa Abajo, 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 94559. It stands on Napa Creek. The Survey maps it on the Napa quadrangle.

Napa Abajo 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 Napa Abajo, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Napa Abajo, surveyed 1902

On record in Napa Abajo

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 within a mile 12 of 37 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Napa County

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

539 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 539 fires within 5 miles of Napa Abajo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,915 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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/undetermined295
Equipment and vehicle use125
Debris and open burning32
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking23
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unitnot named
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTHOMPSON AV NAPA
7 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTHOMPSON AV NAPA 2
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitAIRPORT
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVICHY AV NAPA
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMONTICELLO RD NAPA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Napa Abajo: 13 producers, 9 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Basalt Rock CoDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Basalt Rock CoClayProducer
Basalt Rock CoStone, DimensionProducer
Basalt Rock CoClayProducer
Basalt Rock Co. Quarry, PossiblyDiatomiteProducerSedimentary
Juarez QuarryStone, DimensionProducer
Basalt Rock Company, Inc.Stone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Juarez QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Napa QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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
Napa0.3 miles25
Imola1.0 miles25
Shipyard Acres2.4 miles25
Union2.4 miles25
Rocktram2.4 miles25
Stanley3.3 miles29
Suscol3.3 miles29
Vichy Springs3.4 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.

Wikidata item Q122539044The 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 1800291. 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.