Buck Meadows, California
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Coulterville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95321. It stands on White Oak Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jawbone Ridge quadrangle. 21 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,015 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1893 to 2001The same ground, surveyed 108 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1893 against another survey:
On record in Buck Meadows
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Big Gap Flumelisted 1975 · 0.7 miles away
Population over time
2 figuresBuck Meadows fell from 31 to 21 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 31 | |
| 2020 | 21 | -10 (-32%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 29 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1893 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
- 1896 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000, 8 printings
- 1898 USGS Sonora quadrangle1:125000
- 1947 USGS Jawbone Ridge quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Tuolumne quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1949 USGS Jawbone Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1956 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1962 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1966 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1994 USGS Oakdale quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Jawbone Ridge quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
140 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Buck Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 261,196 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 35 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 22 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Smoking | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | WHEEL |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | SAM |
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | PACKARD |
| 8 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | RIM |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | LUMBSDEN |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Central California District | CONVERSE |
| 5 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | RIDGE |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | ARGO |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Buck Meadows: 9 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 5 past producers, 4 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Dolomite, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bower Cave Deposits | Dolomite | Occurrence | ||
| Bower Cave Deposts | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Prospect | ||
| Horseshoe I | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Lead | Producer | 1867 | |
| Airdale No. 1 & 2 | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Argo Pioneer | Gold | Past Producer | Gold, Pyrite | |
| Argo Pioneer | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Australian Gulch | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Cincinnati, Ohio | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Cincinnati, Ohio | Gold | Unknown | ||
| Dorsey Placer Mine | Gold | Occurrence | Placer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greeley Hill | 5.8 miles | 34 | |
| Dogtown | 8.3 miles | 34 | |
| Coulterville | 10.0 miles | 34 | |
| Newtown (historical) | 10.1 miles | 34 | |
| Bagby | 14.4 miles | 28 | |
| Granite Springs | 14.5 miles | 28 | |
| Clearing House | 14.6 miles | 35 | |
| Blanchard | 14.9 miles | 28 |
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 Buck Meadows | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3459150 | The 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 257574. 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.












