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Oakville, California

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1902 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the St. Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94558. It stands on To Kalon Creek (not official). The Survey maps it on the Rutherford quadrangle. 49 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 154 feet above sea level.

Oakville 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 Oakville, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet of Oakville, surveyed 1902

On record in Oakville

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Oakville fell from 71 to 49 between 2010 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
201071
202049-22 (-31%)

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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Oakville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,613 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined113
Equipment and vehicle use62
Debris and open burning20
Smoking16
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

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 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSILVERADO
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPINE
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHOFFMAN
6 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVETS HOME YOUNTVILLE
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unit29
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPG+E
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSMOKEY OAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Oakville: 11 occurrences, 7 prospects, 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Manganese, Perlite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomitePast Producer
McLaughlin MineSilver, Gold, Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic, Titanium, Metal, Tungsten, Boron-BoratesProducer1978, 1985
Napa Valley StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Search GroupCopperProspect
Sullinger ClaimChromiumProspect
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
Mcgill Rock and SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
UnknownPerliteOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Napa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 2 flood. 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 2026FloodOakville-Rocks were coming onto the roadway on California Route 128 at Berryessa Knoxville Road.
February 2019FloodOakville-Road flooded for approx 100 feet at 750 Oakville Cross 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
Rutherford1.8 miles25
Caymus (historical)3.0 miles25
Yountville3.3 miles25
Zinfandel3.8 miles25
Enchanted Hills3.9 miles25
Thoman4.6 miles25
Lokoya4.6 miles23
Saint Helena5.9 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 OakvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q665259The 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 229899. 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.