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Buckhorn, California

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Pine Grove-Silver Lake census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95666. It lies near Mount Crossman. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. 2,597 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,238 feet above sea level.

Buckhorn 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 Buckhorn, surveyed 1993
Topographic sheet of Buckhorn, surveyed 1889

Population over time

2 figures

Buckhorn grew from 2,429 to 2,597 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
20102,429
20202,597+168 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

474 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 474 fires within 5 miles of Buckhorn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 694 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning159
Missing data/not specified/undetermined148
Equipment and vehicle use61
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Smoking16
Recreation and ceremony14
Natural12
Power generation/transmission/distribution11
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1

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 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionLODGE
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTuolumne-Calaveras UnitMAIN
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPINEWOOD
8 September 2017Smokingunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionMADRONE LN BUCKHORN
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire ProtectionSMITTY
6 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAmador-El Dorado UnitEZELLA CT PIONEER
6 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreEldorado National ForestDEW
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCentral California DistrictPIONEER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Amador County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 300 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 300 workings within 5 miles of Buckhorn: 118 past producers, 108 occurrences, 62 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Manganese, Lead, Copper. 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
AjaxSilver, Gold, LeadProducer
AjaxGold, Lead, SilverUnknown
BeldenGold, Lead, Zinc, IronPast Producer1855
Big PineSilver, Gold, Copper, LeadPast ProducerGold
DefenderGold, Lead, Zinc, Copper, IronPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
ElkhornGold, Copper, ZincPast ProducerBornite, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite
NottusGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Stirnaman MineManganese, SilicaPast Producer1917
Calaveras - ColumbusGold, Silver, CopperPast ProducerGold, Pyrrhotite
Humbug DiggingsGold, SilverPast Producer

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
Barton0.2 miles28
Pioneer2.7 miles28
Dew Drop (historical)4.8 miles30
Volcano5.5 miles28
Pine Acres7.2 miles28
Pine Grove7.4 miles28
Irishtown (historical)8.9 miles28
Clinton9.1 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 BuckhornAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4983148The 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 2652372. 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.