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Pope Valley, 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 94567. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helena quadrangle. It stands 715 feet above sea level.

Pope Valley 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 Pope Valley, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Pope Valley, surveyed 1942

On record in Pope Valley

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 1 record

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

143 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of Pope Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,336 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined57
Equipment and vehicle use45
Debris and open burning21
Smoking9
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1993Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitDOWLING
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWEST
8 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSUPERY
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHARDIN
28 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
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 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Pope Valley: 25 occurrences, 6 past producers, 4 producers, 4 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Chromium, Manganese, Geothermal. 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
Palisade Mine GrigsbySilver, GoldProducer
Pope Creek PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ray's Rock Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
White Rock MineMagnesiteProspect
White Rock Mine Pope Valley, WaltersMagnesiteProducerMagnesite
Aetna SpringsGeothermalUnknown
Unnamed LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Walter SpringsGeothermalUnknown
LibertyManganeseOccurrence
Liberty ClaimManganeseOccurrence1918

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
Howell Mountain2.6 miles21
Veteran Heights2.9 miles21
Angwin3.0 miles21
Aetna Springs3.9 miles22
Walter Springs4.5 miles20
Sanitarium5.5 miles21
Bale6.1 miles24
Deer Park6.1 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 Pope ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7229259The 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 230940. 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.