Calistoga, California Calistoga, California Location inside Napa County and California Location inside Napa County and California Calistoga is a town/city in Napa County, California, United States.
The Upper Napa Valley was once the home of a momentous population of Indigenous People, called the Wappo amid the Spanish colonial era of the late 18th century.
With abundant oak trees providing acorns as a food staple and the natural hot springs as a healing ground Calistoga (Wappo: Nilektsonoma, "Chicken Hawk Place") was the site of a several villages.
The first Anglo pioneer began arriving in the 1840s, with a several taking up lands in the Calistoga area.
Fascinated by Calistoga's natural hot springs, Brannan purchased more than 2,000 acres (8 km2) with the intent to precarious a spa reminiscent of Saratoga Springs in New York.
He is said to have intended to say "I'll make this place the Saratoga of California," but to have in fact said "the Calistoga of Sarifornia". His Hot Springs Resort encircling Mt Lincoln with the Spa/Hotel positioned at what is now Indian Springs Resort, opened to California's rich and famous in 1862.
In 1868 Brannan's Napa Valley Railroad Company's track was instead of to Calistoga.
With the addition of barns service, Calistoga became not only a destination, but also the transit hub for the upper valley and a gateway to Lake and Sonoma Counties.
Calistoga City Hall Calistoga's economy was based on quarrying (silver and mercury) agriculture (grapes, prunes and walnuts) and tourism (the hot springs).
Yet to write his great novels, he had just married Fanny Vandegrift in San Francisco in May 1880, and the couple honeymooned at the Calistoga Hot Springs Hotel days later.
Calistoga made nationwide headlines in 1881 when Anson Tichenor claimed that he had invented a way to extract gold from the waters of the hot springs.
In 1920, Giuseppe Musante, a soda fountain and candy store owner in Calistoga, was drilling for a cold water well at the Railway Exchange when he tapped into a hot water source.
In 1924 he set up a bottling line and began selling Calistoga Sparkling Mineral Water.
The business became a primary player in the bottled water company after Elwood Sprenger bought the small bottling plant in 1970 known today as Calistoga Water Company.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), 99.30% of it territory and 0.70% of it water.
According to National Weather Service records, Calistoga has cool, wet winters with temperatures dropping to freezing on an average of 34.1 days.
Average January temperatures range from 59.8 F (15.4 C) to 36.8 F (2.7 C).
Average July temperatures range from 92.3 F (33.5 C) to 53.1 F (11.7 C).
Average annual rainfall is 37.56 inches (954 mm) with calculable rain falling on an average of 63 days each year.
Climate data for Calistoga, California (1981 2010 normals) Average rainy days ( 0.01 inch) 11 9 9 6 4 1 0 0 1 4 8 10 63 The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Calistoga had a populace of 5,155.
The Enumeration reported that 5,100 citizens (98.9% of the population) lived in homeholds, 20 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 35 (0.7%) were institutionalized.
There were 2,019 homeholds, out of which 630 (31.2%) had kids under the age of 18 living in them, 927 (45.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 189 (9.4%) had a female homeholder with no husband present, 99 (4.9%) had a male homeholder with no wife present.
641 homeholds (31.7%) were made up of individuals and 332 (16.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The populace was spread out with 1,167 citizens (22.6%) under the age of 18, 400 citizens (7.8%) aged 18 to 24, 1,341 citizens (26.0%) aged 25 to 44, 1,283 citizens (24.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 964 citizens (18.7%) who were 65 years of age or older.
2,545 citizens (49.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,555 citizens (49.6%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census of 2000, there were 5,190 citizens , 2,042 homeholds, and 1,243 families residing in the city.
There were 2,042 homeholds out of which 29.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families.
31.4% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 17.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.20.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 5.2% of families and 8.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.
In the California State Legislature, Calistoga is in the 3rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Bill Dodd, and in the 4th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Cecilia Aguiar-Curry. In the United States House of Representatives, Calistoga is in California's 5th congressional district, represented by Democrat Mike Thompson. Calistoga Water Truck Sculpture Calistoga is at the north end of the Napa Valley Calistoga AVA, part of California's Wine Country.
Calistoga itself is noted for its hot springs spas such as Calistoga Spa Hot Springs.
Tom Seaver, former Major League Baseball player lives south of Calistoga.
Louis Rams, & Kansas City Chiefs was born in Calistoga.
"California Cities by Incorporation Date".
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"Calistoga (city) Quick - Facts".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"2010 Enumeration Interactive Population Search: CA - Calistoga city".
"California's 5th Congressional District - Representatives & District Map".
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