Aetna Springs Resort

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1942.

From the record

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1600 Aetna Springs Rd., Pope Valley, 94567
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. district
Census division. Calistoga
National Register reference number. 87000341 - 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

1942 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Aetna Springs Resort, surveyed 1998

Topographic sheet covering Aetna Springs Resort, surveyed 1942

Fires near this property

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Aetna Springs Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,545 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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	32
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BUTTS
25 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BUTTS
24 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	INK
24 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northern California District	AETNA
21 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	POPE VALLEY
2 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	AETNA
19 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Northern California District	UNNAMED FIRE 3777
18 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection	POPE

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of Aetna Springs Resort: 42 occurrences, 16 past producers, 8 prospects, 6 producers. 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Napa Copper	Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Palisade Mine Grigsby	Silver, Gold	Producer
Aetna Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Unnamed Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Cavagnaro Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence
Cavagnaro Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	1917
Hastings Prospect	Manganese	Occurrence	1918
Liberty	Manganese	Occurrence
Liberty Claim	Manganese	Occurrence	1918
Pies and Jacobsen Property	Manganese	Unknown

Every working recorded in Napa County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

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

1942 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Aetna Springs quadrangle1:24000 - 6 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1960 USGS St. Helena quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1998 USGS Aetna Springs quadrangle1:24000

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
Swartz Creek Bridge on Aetna Springs Road	0.5 miles	2005
Garnett Creek Bridge on Greenwood Avenue	6.5 miles	2005
Larkmead Winery	6.6 miles	1982
Sam Brannan Cottage	6.8 miles	1983
Garnett Creek Bridge on CA 29	7.0 miles	2005
Alfred L. Tubbs Winery	7.0 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000341 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.