---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 9.159"
title: "27"
number: "9.159"
heading: "Yorkville Highlands."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/9.159"
---

# §9.159. Yorkville Highlands.

- (a) **Name.** The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “Yorkville Highlands.”
- (b) **Approved maps.** The appropriate maps for determining the boundary of the Yorkville Highlands viticultural area are the following six U.S.G.S. topographical maps (7.5 minute series, 1:24000 scale):
  - (1) Gube Mountain, Calif., provisional edition 1991;
  - (2) Big Foot Mountain, Calif., provisional edition 1991;
  - (3) Cloverdale, Calif., 1960, photoinspected 1975;
  - (4) Ornbaun Valley Quadrangle, Calif., provisional edition, 1991;
  - (5) Yorkville, Calif., provisional edition, 1991;
  - (6) Hopland, Calif., 1960, photoinspected 1975.
- (c) **Boundary.** The Yorkville Highlands viticultural area is located in Mendocino County, California. The boundary is as follows:
  - (1) **The beginning point is Benchmark 680, located in Section 30, T.** 12 N., R. 13 W., on the Ornbaum Valley quadrangle map;
  - (2) From the beginning point, the boundary proceeds in a straight line in a northeasterly direction to a point intersecting the North Fork of Robinson Creek and the [Section 20](/cfr/27/20.md), T. 13 N., R. 13 W.;
  - (3) The boundary then proceeds in a straight line in a southeasterly direction to the summit of Sanel Mountain, located at the southeast corner of [Section 30](/cfr/27/30.md), T. 13 N., R. 12 W., on the Yorkville quadrangle map;
  - (4) The boundary then proceeds in a straight line in a southeasterly direction until it reaches the southeast corner of [Section 15](/cfr/27/15.md), T. 12 N., R 11 W., on the Hopland quadrangle map;
  - (5) **The boundary then proceeds south, following the eastern boundaries of Sections 22 and 27, T.** 12 N., R 11 W., until it reaches the Mendocino-Sonoma County line on the Cloverdale quadrangle map;
  - (6) The boundary then follows the Mendocino-Sonoma county line west, south and west until it reaches the southwest corner of [Section 32](/cfr/27/32.md), T. 12 N., R. 11 W.;
  - (7) The boundary then diverges from the county line and proceeds in a northwesterly direction, traversing the Big Foot Mountain quadrangle map, until it reaches the southwest corner of [Section 5](/cfr/27/5.md), T. 12 N., R. 13 W. on the Ornbaun Valley quadrangle map;
  - (8) The boundary proceeds in a straight line in a northerly direction until it reaches the beginning point at Benchmark 680.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-397, 63 FR 16904, Apr. 7, 1998]

### Authority

Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205.

### Source

Source: T.D. ATF-60, 44 FR 56692, Oct. 2, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-397, 63 FR 16904, Apr. 7, 1998]