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The Vaca Mountains are a mountain range in Napa and Solano Counties, California that is one of the California Coast Ranges. They represent the easternmost of the Inner Coast Ranges in north−central California, and divide the Suisun Valley on their west, from the Sacramento Valley on their east.

Mount Vaca is a mountain in Napa and Solano counties of Northern California. It is both the highest point in the Vaca Mountains and in Solano County. It is also one of several peaks in the San Francisco Bay Area that receive winter snow.

Rancho Chimiles was a 17,762-acre (71.88 km2) Mexican land grant in present day Napa County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to José Ygnacio Berreyesa.

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.

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.

Rancho Tolenas was a 13,316-acre (5,389-hectare) Mexican land grant in present-day Solano County and Napa County, California given in 1840 by Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado to José Francisco Armijo. The grant was north east of present-day Fairfield and was bounded on the south by Rancho Suisun.

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.

The Grant Fire was a wildfire that burned east of the city of Sacramento near the rural community of Sloughhouse in Sacramento County, California in the United States. It was reported on the afternoon of Friday, June 12, near Grant Line Road the fire quickly grew to the size of 5,042 acres (2,040 ha) as it burned predominantly in light flashy fuels and grasslands as it was fanned by heavy winds in the area. There were no reports of injuries and only one structure was damaged in the fire. However, during the fires peak there were mandatory evacuations ordered near and around Glory Lane and Prairie City OHV Park.

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.

Rancho Los Putos also called Rancho Lihuaytos was a 44,384-acre (179.62 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Solano County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Juan Felipe Peña and Juan Manuel Vaca.The Los Putos name comes from the nearby Putah Creek (formerly Rio Los Putos). The grant encompassed present day Vacaville, all of Lagoon Valley and stretched into what is now, Yolo County almost to Davis. It also reached into the Vaca Mountains.

Peña Adobe Park (Peña Adobe Regional Park) is a 8-acre park in Vacaville, California in Solano Count. The Peña Adobe Regional Park is at 4699 Pena Adobe Road, Vacaville. Peña Adobe Regional Park has a Vaca-Peña Adobe Visitor Center and has 40 miles of trails. Peña Adobe Park is in the 306-acre Lagoon Valley Park. The parks were part of Juan Felipe Peña land grant Rancho Los Putos. The park is both a recreational park and place with historical sites.

Temelec Hall is historical building built in 1858, in Sonoma, California in Sonoma County, California. The Temelec Hall is a California Historical Landmark No. 496 listed on June 10, 1936. Temelec Hall is also a National Register of Historic Places April 19, 2006. Temelec Hall was built by Captain Granville P. Swift (1821-1875), a member of the Bear Flag Party and took part in the short Mexican–American War in 1846–1848. Swift was the great-grandnephew to Daniel Boone. Swift found gold in 1949 California Gold Rush. With the gold, Swift built the building with stone quarried here by native labor. General Persifor Frazer Smith, a United States Army commander in lived in a small house near Temelec Hall in 1849. After Swift Temelec Hall was sold a few times. In 1915 it was sold to the Coblentz family, who restored the run down building. Coblentz family sold the Hall and it lands in 1961, to a developer. The developer built the Temelec retirement community with the Hall as historical centerpiece.A historical marker is at Temelec Hall, placed by the by Native Sons of the Golden West in 2008.