---
kind: "section"
citation: "27 C.F.R. § 9.164"
title: "27"
number: "9.164"
heading: "River Junction."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/27/9.164"
---

# §9.164. River Junction.

- (a) **Name.** The name of the viticultural area described in this section is “River Junction.”
- (b) **Approved maps.** The appropriate maps for determining the boundaries of the River Junction viticultural area are the following two 1:24,000 Scale U.S.G.S. topographical maps. They are titled:
  - (1) Ripon, CA 1969, photorevised 1980;
  - (2) **Vernalis, CA 1969, photorevised 1980.**
- (c) **Boundaries.** The River Junction AVA is located in southern San Joaquin County, California. The boundaries are as follows:
  - (1) Beginning on the Vernalis, CA quadrangle map at the intersection of the secondary highway Airport Way and the San Joaquin River levee, near Benchmark 35 in T3S/R6E;
  - (2) Then in a southeasterly direction, follow the levee along the San Joaquin River onto the Ripon, CA quadrangle map;
  - (3) Then in a northerly direction around Sturgeon Bend in [section 18](/cfr/27/18.md) T3S/R7E;
  - (4) Then continuing in a generally southeasterly, then northeasterly direction along the levee adjoining the Stanislaus River through sections [19](/cfr/27/19.md), [20](/cfr/27/20.md) and [17](/cfr/27/17.md) to the point where the levee intersects sections [17](/cfr/27/17.md) and [8](/cfr/27/8.md);
  - (5) Then continuing in a northerly direction along the levee in [section 8](/cfr/27/8.md) for approximately 1,000 feet;
  - (6) Then in a straight line in a northwesterly direction for approximately 100 feet to the intersection with Division Road;
  - (7) Then in a southwesterly, then northwesterly direction along Division Road through sections [8](/cfr/27/8.md), [17](/cfr/27/17.md), [18](/cfr/27/18.md) and [7](/cfr/27/7.md) to the intersection with the secondary highway Airport Way;
  - (8) Then in a southwesterly direction along Airport Way onto the Vernalis quadrangle map to the starting point at the intersection of Airport Way and the San Joaquin River levee T3S/R6E.

## Notes

### Amendments

[T.D. ATF-452, 66 FR 23592, May 9, 2001]

### 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-452, 66 FR 23592, May 9, 2001]