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Photograph of Oakville Grocery
Photograph by Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oakville Grocery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1993 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 7856 St. Helena Hwy., Oakville, 94558
  • When was it listed? July 1993
  • Category. building
  • Census division. St. Helena
  • National Register reference number. 93000664 - 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

1902 to 1983

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 81 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Oakville Grocery, surveyed 1983
Topographic sheet covering Oakville Grocery, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

221 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of Oakville Grocery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,612 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined112
Equipment and vehicle use61
Debris and open burning20
Smoking12
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVETS HOME YOUNTVILLE
9 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNorthern California DistrictSILVERADO
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPINE
8 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa UnitHOFFMAN
6 September 2015Smoking1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitVETS HOME YOUNTVILLE
6 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSonoma-Lake Napa Unit29
6 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitPG+E
5 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresSonoma-Lake Napa UnitSMOKEY OAK

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Oakville Grocery: 12 occurrences, 7 prospects, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Perlite. 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
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomitePast Producer
McLaughlin MineSilver, Gold, Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic, Titanium, Metal, Tungsten, Boron-BoratesProducer1978, 1985
Napa Valley StoneStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Search GroupCopperProspect
Sullinger ClaimChromiumProspect
Unnamed LocationStoneOccurrence
UnknownPerliteOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerliteProspect
Bacon and Kenney ProspectManganeseProspect
Bacon and Kenney ProspectManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Napa County

Storms near this property

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2026: 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
January 2026FloodOakville-Rocks were coming onto the roadway on California Route 128 at Berryessa Knoxville Road.
February 2019FloodOakville-Road flooded for approx 100 feet at 750 Oakville Cross Rd.

Every storm 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.

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
Far Niente Winery0.8 miles1979
Atkinson House1.3 miles1990
Charles Rovegno House2.9 miles1991
French Laundry3.1 miles1978
John Lee Webber House3.1 miles1982
Yountville Grammar School3.2 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000664 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.