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Amador City, California

30 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Sutter Creek-Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95601. It lies near Bunker Hill. The Survey maps it on the Amador City quadrangle. 200 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 919 feet above sea level.

Amador City within Amador County

Then and now

1889 to 1993

The same ground, surveyed 104 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Amador City, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Amador City, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Amador City grew from 185 to 200 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010185
2020200+15 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 30 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

240 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Amador City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,008 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Equipment and vehicle use78
Missing data/not specified/undetermined71
Debris and open burning50
Arson/incendiarism19
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Smoking4
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCARBON
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAmador-El Dorado UnitPINE
8 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSUNSET
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitSUTTER
7 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreCentral California DistrictBUENA
6 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresCentral California DistrictSHAKERIDGE
30 September 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitCREEK
3 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreCentral California DistrictVALLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 316 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 316 workings within 5 miles of Amador City: 139 occurrences, 81 past producers, 70 prospects, 20 producers. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Stone, Dimension, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Allen RanchGold, PGE, SilverPast Producer
Ayers CharlesFlagstone, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Ayers, CharlersStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerGravel
Bunker HillGold, IronPast Producer1853
Central EurekaGold, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Lead, CopperProducer1855
Del Porto MarbleLimestone, DimensionOccurrence
Fremont-Gover Inc. Loyal LodeGold, ArsenicPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
KeystoneGold, Antimony, ArsenicPast Producer1851
MechanicsGold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, IronOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
PioneerGold, Lead, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold

Every working recorded in Amador County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bunker Hill0.5 miles30
Lower Rancheria (historical)1.3 miles30
New Chicago1.4 miles30
Sutter Creek2.2 miles30
Drytown2.2 miles30
Sutter Hill3.1 miles30
Martell3.9 miles29
Plymouth4.4 miles30

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Amador CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2840898The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1657922. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.