Grant Fire

The Quail Fire was a wildfire that burned during the 2020 California wildfire season southwest of Winters and north of Vacaville in Solano County, California in the United States. Igniting on Saturday, June 6, within the rural confines of Quail Canyon, the fire ballooned to an estimated 1,837 acres (743 ha) and destroyed three structures including one residential property. The fire was fully contained on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, and the cause remains under investigation.

Pleasants Ranch or Hoskins Ranch is a historic ranch located in Vacaville, California, United States. It features late Victorian and Queen Anne architecture. It was used for domestic subsistence agriculture. There are 12 historic buildings on the land including agricultural outbuildings, a single dwelling, processing, animal facility, storage, and secondary structures. It is situated on 4.5 acres and there is a 13th contributing building. The main house dates from 1891, and was designed by architect Allen A. Cook from Sacramento. The ranch includes a gazebo from c.1892, a smoke house from 1877, a stock barn from c.1900, a buggy barn from 1902, and more.

Lake Solano is a reservoir formed by Putah Diversion Dam impounding Putah Creek, located in the Vaca Mountains within Yolo County and northern Solano County, California. The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safe eating advisory for any fish caught in Putah Creak including Lake Solano due to elevated levels of mercury.

The Winters Fire was a wildfire that started on Thursday, July 6, 2017 in the Vaca Mountains, near Lake Berryessa west of the city of Winters, in Yolo County, northern California. The fire was named the Winters incident due to its proximity to the city.

The English Hills are a low mountain range in Solano County, California.The range runs along the southwestern edge of the Sacramento Valley. Vacaville is at their southern end.

Putah Creek Wildlife Area is a state wildlife area of Solano County, California. The 670 acre reserve lies to the southeast of Lake Berryessa, to the south of Monticello Dam and the confluence of Putah Creek and Cold Creek. Trees found here include cottonwood, blue oak and chaparral. Deer, quail, California towhee, Bullock's oriole, and black-headed grosbeak are also found in the area, which also includes Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve.

Wolfskill Grant Orchards is historical site built in 1842 in Winters, California in Solano County, California. The Wolfskill Grantis a California Historical Landmark No. 804 listed on June 28, 1965. Horticulturist John R. Wolfskill (1804-1897) settled on land of the Rancho Rio de los Putos a First Mexican Republic California Land Grant near the present-day City of Winters in 1842 after marriage to Magdalena Lugo. Wolfskill, also called John Reed, brought with him seeds and plant cuttings and started new horticulture fruit industry in Northern California. Wolfskill came west on the Santa Fe Trail. Wolfskill worked at teamster in Santa Fe, New Mexico before coming west. John Reid Wolfskill was born on 11 September 1804, in Madison, Kentucky. Wolfskill married Susan Cooper on January 10, 1860, in Colusa, California. Wolfskill died on May 27, 1897, in Yolo, California at the age of 92. In 1938, Wolfskill daughter, Mrs. Frances Wolfskill Taylor Wilson donated 107.28 acres of Wolfskill plant nursery and orchard University of California. University of California opened the University of California Experimental Farm on the University of California, Davis land part of the UC Davis Plant Sciences Department. A historical marker is at University of California Experimental Farm. The marker was placed there by California State Park Commission, the Solano County Historical Society in 1966.Uncle Burt's Tree is marker nearby placed by Vacaville Historical Marker Committee in 2002.

Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve is a unit of the University of California Natural Reserve System and is administered by the University of California, Davis. It is within the Blue Ridge Berryessa Natural Area, in the Northern Inner California Coast Ranges. It is located in Solano County and Napa County 10 km (6 mi.) west of Winters, California and 0.8 km (0.5 mi.) east of Monticello Dam on the south side of Putah Creek. The reserve is 258 hectares (638 acres) in size with elevations ranging from 300–2,500 feet (91–762 m).

The 1892 Vacaville–Winters earthquakes occurred in northern California as a large doublet on April 19 and April 21. Measured on a seismic scale that is based on an isoseismal map or the event's felt area, the 6.4 Mla and 6.2 Mla  events were assigned a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), and affected the North Bay and Central Valley areas. The total damage was estimated to be between $225,000 and 250,000 and one person was killed. No evidence of fault movement on the surface of the ground was observed as a result of either of the strong shocks. Both occurred in the domain of the San Andreas strike-slip system of faults, but their focal mechanism is uncertain.

The Wragg Fire was a wildland fire that started just off California State Route 128 near Lake Berryessa in Napa County, California in the United States. The fire started on July 22, 2015. The cause was an idling vehicle's car exhaust. The vehicle came into contact with dry grass and sparked the fire. Mandatory evacuations for 136 homes and 200 residents took place. Six roads were closed temporarily as a result.

Winters High School in Winters, California had its first graduating class in 1895.The school is located at 101 Grant Avenue in Winters, California. The school mascot is "The Warrior."

Liwaito (also Lewytos and Liguaytoy) is a former settlement of the Patwin branch of the Wintun tribe in Yolo County, California. The name means "waiving" in the Patwin language, and was also applied to Putah Creek. It lay at an elevation of 135 feet (41 m). Its location is quite near Winters, California.