{{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}{{Infobox mountain | name = Bennett Mountain | image = Taylorpeakfrmbennettvalley.jpg | image_caption = Bennett Mountain, viewed from Bennett Valley | map=California | elevation_ft = 1909 | elevation_ref = {{NAVD88}}<ref name="ngs">{{cite ngs |id=JT2427 |name=Bennett |accessdate=2009-07-02}}</ref> | prominence = | location = Sonoma County, California, U.S. | range = Sonoma Mountains | coordinates = {{coord|38.413226469|N|122.624973647|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:NGS|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = <ref name="ngs"/> | topo = USGS Kenwood | first_ascent = | easiest_route = Unpaved road }}
'''Bennett Mountain,''' also commonly known as Bennett Peak,<ref>{{Cite book|title = Report of the California State Agricultural Society ...|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=GNw0AQAAMAAJ|date = 1903-01-01|first = California State Agricultural|last = Society}}</ref> is a {{convert|1909|ft|m|0|adj=on}} summit in the Sonoma Mountains of California. Located on the west edge of Annadel State Park, it separates Bennett Valley in the Russian River drainage basin from Sonoma Valley in the Sonoma Creek drainage basin.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2009-04-05|title=Acme Mapper 2.0|url=http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=38.412968,-122.623874&z=13&t=T}}</ref>
Bennett Valley was named for James N. Bennett, an emigrant from Illinois who settled in the area in the 19th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.napacountygenealogy.com/Biography/BennettJamesN.htm|accessdate=2009-04-05|title=Napa County Biographies: James N. Bennett}}</ref>
The mountain was burned following the October 2017 Northern California wildfires.
==Viticulture== Grapes were planted on Bennett Mountain as early as 1862, when Isaac DeTurk planted {{convert|30|acre|ha}} at the base of its western slope. By 1878 he was producing {{convert|100000|USgal|L}} of wine from his own and purchased grapes at a winery on Grange and Bennett Valley roads. Since 2003, the summit has formed the eastern edge of the Bennett Valley AVA.<ref name="code">{{cite web |url=http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr;sid=bff700d0bbb2a632948b70fe7e91d7d4;rgn=div5;view=text;node=27%3A1.0.1.1.7;idno=27;cc=ecfr#27:1.0.1.1.7.3.41.122 |title=Title 27 § 9.142 Bennett Valley |work=Code of Federal Regulations |accessdate=2009-12-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907040338/http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr%3Bsid%3Dbff700d0bbb2a632948b70fe7e91d7d4%3Brgn%3Ddiv5%3Bview%3Dtext%3Bnode%3D27%3A1.0.1.1.7%3Bidno%3D27%3Bcc%3Decfr#27:1.0.1.1.7.3.41.122 |archivedate=2009-09-07 }}</ref>
==See also== * Ledson Marsh * List of summits of the San Francisco Bay Area * Sonoma Mountain * Taylor Mountain (Sonoma County, California)
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==External links== * {{cite gnis | id = 219046 | name = Bennett Mountain | accessdate = 2009-07-02 }}
Category:Sonoma Mountains Category:Mountains of Sonoma County, California Category:Geography of Santa Rosa, California Category:Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area Category:Mountains of Northern California