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Napa, 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. 79,246 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 20 feet above sea level.

Napa 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, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Napa, surveyed 1902

On record in Napa

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 of 42 shown

Every listing in Napa County

Population over time

3 figures

Napa grew from 159 to 79,246 between 1850 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
1850159
201076,915
202079,246+2,331 (+3%)

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

536 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 536 fires within 5 miles of Napa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,699 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/undetermined288
Equipment and vehicle use128
Debris and open burning34
Arson/incendiarism31
Smoking22
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Recreation and ceremony3
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
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
5 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitKELLY

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: 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

Storms near this place

7 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Napa in 7 storm reports between 2004 and 2019: 4 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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
October 2009FloodNapa$10,000The westbound lane of Imola Avenue at Lernhart Street near South Jefferson Street was closed due to flooding. Heavy rain along with overwhelmed storm drains caused the flooding. Also, minor rock and mud slides occurred across Butts Canyon Road just before the Lake County line.
February 2019FloodWest Napa-SR 12 at SR 121 northbound lanes flooded.
November 2018FloodWest Napa-Golden Gate Dr in Napa area.
March 2017LightningNapa-A tree was struck by lightning at Park Ave and Sonoma Street leaving thousands without power. Reported by the Napa Valley Register.
December 2014FloodWest Napa-Water flooding all lanes of Route 29 near Napa.
September 2014HailNapa-Hail of 1/2 inch diameter fell in downtown Napa and across the southern part of Napa County. Hail accumulated to a depth of 3 to 6 inches in some places and produced leaf damage to trees and plants in the city.
January 2004Flash FloodNapa-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
Napa Abajo0.3 miles25
Imola1.3 miles25
Union2.1 miles25
Shipyard Acres2.7 miles25
Rocktram2.8 miles25
Vichy Springs3.1 miles25
Salvador3.5 miles25
Stanley3.6 miles29

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 NapaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60537The 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 277561. 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.