Napa River Bridge on Zinfandel Lane

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1916.

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. Zinfandel Ln., 1 mi. E of CA 29, St. Helena, 94574
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. Highway Bridges of California MPS
Census division. St. Helena
National Register reference number. 05000781 - 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.

Fires near this property

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Napa River Bridge on Zinfandel Lane between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,074 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined	61
Equipment and vehicle use	47
Debris and open burning	27
Arson/incendiarism	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HIGHWAY 2
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING WHITE 2
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HOFACKET
27 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	67,484 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	GLASS
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	HWY 12 KENWOOD
23 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	ARNOLD
22 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	PALM

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 Napa River Bridge on Zinfandel Lane: 14 occurrences, 8 prospects, 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Mount Hood Mine	Chromium	Unknown
Stirling	Iron	Occurrence	Hematite
Sullinger Claim	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Unnamed Location	Iron	Unknown
Annadel Farm	Perlite	Past Producer
Annadel Farm	Perlite	Producer
Clark and March Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Clark and Marsh Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Clark and Marsh Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Napa County

Maps showing this location

10 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.

1916 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
1944 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1954 USGS Kenwood quadrangle1:24000 - 7 printings
1954 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Napa quadrangle1:100000

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Chateau Chevalier	2.1 miles	1987
Rhine House	2.8 miles	1972
J.C. Weinberger Winery	3.1 miles	2015
Greystone Cellars	3.3 miles	1978
Beringer Brothers-Los Hermanos Winery	3.4 miles	2001
St. Helena Public Cemetery	3.5 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000781 in Record Group 79.
Napa County	All 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.