[1] It lies at an elevation of 16 feet (5 m) between Los Carneros AVA and the Napa-Sonoma Marsh, along the Brazos subdivision of the railway owned by Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit.

[2] In 1897, J. M. Buchli sold a strip of land to the Northern Railway Company, which constructed a station there along the line between Napa Junction and Schellville.

[3] For the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the station was used to ship dairy, hay, and produce grown in Napa and Sonoma counties along the Southern Pacific Railroad to San Francisco.

[4] Beginning in 1905, a second line opened between Napa and Buchli, carrying passengers round trip daily to San Francisco via the ferry at Tiburon.

[3] In 1946, Press Wireless, Inc. constructed a radio station in Buchli which received and processed most news reports from East Asia.