Greeley Hill, California
34 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 95311. It lies near Dudley Hill. The Survey maps it on the Coulterville quadrangle. 927 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,153 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:
Population over time
2 figuresGreeley Hill grew from 915 to 927 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 | 915 | |
| 2020 | 927 | +12 (+1%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 34 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 Coulterville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1947 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
- 1947 USGS San Jose quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Coulterville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 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 Coulterville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
209 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Greeley Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,520 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 59 |
| Debris and open burning | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Natural | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | DONKEY |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Central California District | BONEYARD |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Stanislaus National Forest | SAM |
| 9 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Merced-Mariposa Unit | ERNST |
| 7 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Merced-Mariposa Unit | HILDAGO |
| 6 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Central California District | CONVERSE |
| 5 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | BROADWAY COULTERVILLE |
| 4 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | FISKE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 94 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Greeley Hill: 35 past producers, 32 occurrences, 15 unknowns, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Chromium, Talc-Soapstone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balance | Gold, Lead | Past Producer | Galena | |
| Bondurant | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | 1856 | |
| Champion I | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | 1855 | |
| Congo | Gold, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite | |
| Louisiana | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead | Past Producer | 1862 | |
| Mary Harrison-Malvina Group | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | 1852 | |
| Gordan Deposit | Talc-Soapstone | Unknown | ||
| Gordon Deposit | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Reed Property | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite | |
| Reed Property | Chromium | Prospect |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dogtown | 2.9 miles | 34 | |
| Coulterville | 4.3 miles | 34 | |
| Newtown (historical) | 4.4 miles | 34 | |
| Buck Meadows | 5.8 miles | 29 | |
| Bagby | 9.2 miles | 28 | |
| Granite Springs | 9.3 miles | 28 | |
| Blanchard | 10.4 miles | 28 | |
| Barrett | 11.0 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 Greeley Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5602139 | 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 266771. 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.












