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Sanitarium, 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 94574. It lies near Italian Valley. The Survey maps it on the Saint Helena quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Sanitarium 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 Sanitarium, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Sanitarium, surveyed 1942

On record in Sanitarium

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 1 record

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

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

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Sanitarium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,270 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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/undetermined110
Equipment and vehicle use76
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism15
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3

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 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING
8 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitWEST
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCLOVER
6 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSPRING WHITE 2
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSMOKEY OAK
28 September 2007Smokingunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitLAS POSADAS RD ANGWIN 22
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use67,484 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGLASS
25 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use29 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCONN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Sanitarium: 11 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 prospects, 3 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury, Stone, Chromium. 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
Glass Mountain DepositStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed LocationPerliteOccurrence
Unnamed LocationIronUnknown
Moore Creek Manganese Ridge ProspectManganeseProducer
Moore Creek ProspectManganesePast Producer1918
Reave Claims Three ClaimsChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Reeve ClaimsChromiumProspect
Sullinger ClaimChromiumOccurrenceChromite
Glass Mountain DepositStoneOccurrenceObsidian
KellettMercuryPast Producer1875

Every working recorded in Napa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sanitarium in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 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
December 2024FloodSanitarium-Large rocks moved to the side of Deer Park Road at Sunnnyside Road.
January 2019FloodSanitarium-Deer Park Road above Sunnyside Road is flooded.

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
Deer Park0.9 miles21
Barro1.6 miles21
Krug1.9 miles21
Bale2.0 miles24
Angwin2.5 miles21
Larkmead2.7 miles24
Saint Helena2.8 miles21
Howell Mountain2.8 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 SanitariumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7418309The 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 1659594. 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.