Vichy Springs, more fully Napa Vichy Springs is a set of springs in

Napa County, California Napa County () is a county north of San Pablo Bay located in the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 138,019. The county seat is the City of Napa. Napa County was one of the original co ...

whose water was once bottled and sold in 1898 as ''Napa Vichy Water''. Vichy Springs is situated south of the Silverado Country Club and Milliken Creek on Montecello Road a few miles northeast of Napa. Vichy Springs and most of the surrounding lands had once been part of the Mexican land grant

Rancho Yajome Rancho Yajome was a Ranchos of California, Mexican land grant in present day Napa County, California given in 1841 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado, Juan Alvarado to Damaso Rodríguez, a soldier who did not occupy the property. The rancho is e ...

. Most of this watershed was

wilderness Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

area to at least 1869, and thereafter this portion of the Milliken Creek watershed, which historically and to present has a robust

steelhead Steelhead, or occasionally steelhead trout, is the common name of the anadromous form of the coastal rainbow trout or redband trout (O. m. gairdneri). Steelhead are native to cold-water tributaries of the Pacific basin in Northeast Asia and N ...

run, was developed as

pasture Pasture (from the Latin ''pastus'', past participle of ''pascere'', "to feed") is land used for grazing. Pasture lands in the narrow sense are enclosed tracts of farmland, grazed by domesticated livestock, such as horses, cattle, sheep, or swine ...

and

grazing In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to roam around and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other ...

agricultural uses.Earth Metrics Incorporated, " Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, Silverado Country Club, Napa County, California", May, 1989 The ZIP Code is 94558. The community is inside

area code 707 Area code 707 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the northwestern part of the U.S. state of California. It was created by a split of area code 415 on March 1, 1959. It serves part of the northern San Francisco ...

Other uses of the name

There is a carbonated

hot springs A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

named '' Vichy Springs'' east of

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* Unincorporated communities in California Unincorporated communities in Napa County, California {{NapaCountyCA-geo-stub