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Walter Springs, California

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1972. It stands in the Lake Berryessa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 94567. It stands on Maxwell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Walter Springs quadrangle. It stands 1,010 feet above sea level.

Walter Springs 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 Walter Springs, surveyed 1972
Topographic sheet of Walter Springs, surveyed 1942

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Walter Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,292 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use26
Debris and open burning6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthern California DistrictSUPERY
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresNorthern California DistrictHARDIN 2
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionHARDIN
24 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitINK
21 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPOPE VALLEY
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresNorthern California DistrictUNNAMED FIRE 3777
18 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionPOPE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 46 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Walter Springs: 27 occurrences, 12 prospects, 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Mercury, Manganese, Magnesite. 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
Pope Creek PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Walter SpringsGeothermalUnknown
White Rock MineMagnesiteProspect
White Rock Mine Pope Valley, WaltersMagnesiteProducerMagnesite
LewisManganeseOccurrence
LewisManganeseOccurrence
LombardiManganeseOccurrence
Paul LombardiManganeseOccurrence
WallaceManganeseOccurrence
Wallace ProspectManganeseOccurrence

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
Pope Valley4.5 miles21
Aetna Springs6.6 miles22
Veteran Heights6.9 miles21
Howell Mountain7.0 miles21
Angwin7.2 miles21
Monticello (historical)9.6 miles20
Sanitarium9.7 miles21
Deer Park10.2 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.

Wikidata item Q7966178The 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 1660124. 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.