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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.

Buck Meadows within Mariposa County

Then and now

1893 to 2001

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Buck Meadows, surveyed 2001
Topographic sheet of Buck Meadows, surveyed 1893

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.

Population over time

2 figures

Buck 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.

YearPeople Change
201031
202021-10 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 29 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

140 since 1992

Regional 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/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural17
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2005Smokingunder an acreStanislaus National ForestWHEEL
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestSAM
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanislaus National ForestPACKARD
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanislaus National ForestRIM
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanislaus National ForestLUMBSDEN
6 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use13 acresCentral California DistrictCONVERSE
5 September 1998Naturalunder an acreStanislaus National ForestRIDGE
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreStanislaus National ForestARGO

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bower Cave DepositsDolomiteOccurrence
Bower Cave DepostsStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Horseshoe IGold, Zinc, Silver, Copper, LeadProducer1867
Airdale No. 1 & 2GoldOccurrence
Argo PioneerGoldPast ProducerGold, Pyrite
Argo PioneerGoldOccurrence
Australian GulchGoldPast Producer
Cincinnati, OhioGoldOccurrence
Cincinnati, OhioGoldUnknown
Dorsey Placer MineGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Mariposa 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
Greeley Hill5.8 miles34
Dogtown8.3 miles34
Coulterville10.0 miles34
Newtown (historical)10.1 miles34
Bagby14.4 miles28
Granite Springs14.5 miles28
Clearing House14.6 miles35
Blanchard14.9 miles28

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 MeadowsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3459150The 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.