Buchli | |
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Coordinates: 38°12′54″N 122°19′58″W / 38.21500°N 122.33278°W | |
Country | United States |
State | California |
County | Napa County |
Elevation | 16 ft (5 m) |
Buchli is an unincorporated community in Napa County, California. [1] It lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m) [1] between Los Carneros AVA and the Napa-Sonoma Marsh. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a railway station in the community was used to ship produce grown in Napa and Sonoma counties along the Southern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco. [2] In 1946, Press Wireless, Inc. constructed a radio station in Buchli which received and processed most news reports from East Asia. The station was the first in the Western United States to receive signals from Sputnik 1. [3] Leslie Salt purchased land to the south in the 1950s, which it developed into salt evaporation ponds. [4] Starting in the 1970s, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife purchased much of the land around Buchli to set aside as a wildlife area. [4]