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Angwin is a census-designated place in Napa County, California, perched on Howell Mountain above the Napa Valley, and it is best known as the home of Pacific Union College.

The community is named for Edwin Angwin, a native of St. Agnes, Cornwall, who in 1875 bought a 200-acre parcel within the Rancho La Jota and established the Angwin Resort, eventually owning almost 1,600 acres in the area.

In 1909, the Seventh-day Adventist Church bought the Angwin Resort for $60,000 and moved its Healdsburg College there, reopening it as Pacific Union College.

Pacific Union College, founded in 1882, is the only four-year college in Napa County and the twelfth oldest institution of higher education in California.

Angwin had a population of 2,633 at the 2020 census, down from 3,051 at the 2010 census.

Angwin's identity is shaped by the college and the church: a 1985 television report found that more than 80 percent of the population belonged to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and at the 2010 census nearly a third of residents lived in college dormitories and other group quarters.

The college campus occupies about 200 acres of its roughly 1,800 acres of property on Howell Mountain, much of it undeveloped forest crossed by an extensive trail network.

Pacific Union College owns and operates its own public-use airport, Angwin-Parrett Field, on the campus.

The college has maintained a National Weather Service cooperative weather station at Angwin since 1940, giving the mountain community an unusually long climate record.

The entire community of Angwin was evacuated in August 2020 because of the Hennessey Fire, part of the lightning-sparked fire complex that swept through Napa County.