Schramsberg Vineyard

Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1927.

From the record

“Schramsberg Vineyards is a winery located in Calistoga, California, in the Napa Valley region. The vineyard, which was founded in 1862 by the German immigrant Jacob Schram, produces a series of sparkling wines using the same method as champagne.”
Wikipedia article Schramsberg Vineyards, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 88 National Register listings published here for Napa County · listed in 1998 · category: District · built in 1965.

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

The listing

Address. 1400 Scramsberg Rd., Calistoga, 94515
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. district
Census division. Calistoga
When was it built? 1965
National Register reference number. 98001251 - 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 Schramsberg Vineyard, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Schramsberg Vineyard, surveyed 1927

Fires near this property

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Schramsberg Vineyard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 68,302 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	94
Equipment and vehicle use	65
Debris and open burning	44
Power generation/transmission/distribution	13
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	WEST
7 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	CLOVER
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	FRANZ
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	SPRING WHITE 2
6 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	TOOHEY
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	HOFACKET
29 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit	BENTLEY

Every fire recorded in Napa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Schramsberg Vineyard: 11 occurrences, 6 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Stone, Clay, Chromium. 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
Calistoga	Geothermal	Unknown
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Palisade	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Mercury	Past Producer
Ray's Base Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Sullinger Claim	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite
Clark and March Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Clark and Marsh Kaolin	Clay	Occurrence
Clark and Marsh Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect	Sedimentary
Clark and Marsh Kaolin Mine	Clay	Prospect
Glass Mountain Deposit	Stone	Occurrence	Obsidian

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 1996	Flood	Calistoga	1 killed	no account filed
February 2017	Debris Flow	Calistoga	-	Mud/rocks on Petrified Forest Rd/SR128.
June 2017	Hail	Calistoga	-	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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1927 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1943 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1947 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1949 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1958 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:24000 - 5 printings
1958 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1962 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Santa Rosa quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Healdsburg quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1993 USGS Calistoga quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Calistoga 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
Larkmead Winery	1.0 miles	1982
Bale Mill	1.8 miles	1972
Monte Vista and Diamond Mountain Vineyard	2.2 miles	2013
Chateau Pacheteau	2.3 miles	2015
Mount View Hotel	2.8 miles	1982
Judge Augustus C. Palmer House	2.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001251 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.