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Photograph of Highway 29 Garnett Creek Bridge
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1927.

From the record

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Greenwood Ave., 0.2 mi. NE of Grant Ave., Calistoga, 94515
  • When was it listed? August 2005
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Highway Bridges of California MPS
  • Census division. Calistoga
  • National Register reference number. 05000778 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1927 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 70 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue, surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue, surveyed 1927

Fires near this property

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104,802 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined75
Equipment and vehicle use61
Debris and open burning25
Power generation/transmission/distribution15
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural3
Other causes1

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
7 September 1992Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitCLOVER
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitFRANZ
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTOOHEY
4 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTOLL
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitBENTLEY
27 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use67,484 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitGLASS
27 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitTUBBS
25 September 1992Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitP.G.&E.# 12

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue: 12 occurrences, 10 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Clay, Stone, Silver, Gold. 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
CalistogaGeothermalUnknown
Palisade MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Search GroupCopperOccurrence
Silverado MineSilver, GoldPast Producer
Silverado-Palisade DepositGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic, Antimony, Zinc, MercuryPast Producer1858
UnknownChromiumOccurrenceChromite
PalisadeSilver, Gold, Lead, Copper, MercuryPast Producer
Porter Creek RoadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Porter Creek RoadSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
CalistogaSilver, GoldProducer

Every working recorded in Napa County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calistoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 1 flood, 1 debris flow, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 1996FloodCalistoga1 killedno account filed
February 2017Debris FlowCalistoga-Mud/rocks on Petrified Forest Rd/SR128.
June 2017HailCalistoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Napa County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Alfred L. Tubbs Winery0.5 miles2013
Garnett Creek Bridge on CA 290.7 miles2005
Sam Brannan Cottage1.6 miles1983
Napa Valley Railroad Depot1.7 miles1977
Mount View Hotel1.8 miles1982
Judge Augustus C. Palmer House1.9 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000778 in Record Group 79.
Napa CountyAll 88 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.