Mokelumne Hill, California
29 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the San Andreas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 95245. It lies near Stockton Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mokelumne Hill quadrangle. 691 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,473 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1889 to 1993The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresMokelumne Hill grew from 646 to 691 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 | 646 | |
| 2020 | 691 | +45 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 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.
- 1889 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
- 1947 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mokelumne Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1948 USGS Mokelumne Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1948 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Mokelumne Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Sacramento quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1993 USGS San Andreas quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
230 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Mokelumne Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 73,243 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 21 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 | 73 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 65 |
| Debris and open burning | 38 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70,868 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | BUTTE |
| 9 September 1999 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Central California District | LIGHTNING 39 |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Central California District | BLAKELY |
| 5 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit | 1-5 |
| 5 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Central California District | LAFAYETTE |
| 5 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | BUTTE |
| 30 September 2013 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Amador-El Dorado Unit | ELECTRA |
| 30 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Central California District | RIVER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 444 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 444 workings within 5 miles of Mokelumne Hill: 143 occurrences, 116 unknowns, 106 past producers, 42 producers. 43 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anita | Gold, Copper, Iron | Past Producer | Gold, Iron | |
| Digitalli | Cobalt, Copper, Manganese | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Digitalli | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| Ilex Mine | Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Stibnite | |
| Mokelumne Hill Prospect | Nickel, Cobalt | Occurrence | ||
| Roberts Lease | Mineral Pigments | Occurrence | Mineral Pigments | |
| Rough Diamond Placer Mine | Gold, Quartz | Producer | Placer | |
| Aime Laidet | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Aime Laidet | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Boston | Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper | Past Producer | Galena, Gold, Pyrite |
Storms near this place
3 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mokelumne Hill in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2023: 2 debris flow, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2015 | Debris Flow | Mokelumne Hill | $10,000 | There were three incidents reported in the Butte Fire area. Mud and debris covered Hawver Rd. at Jesus Maria Road in Mokelumne Hill along Calaveras River. Road was closed until the debris was cleared. That intersection has a small makeshift bridge over the creek that is made of concrete over about 8 six inch pipes that lie in the river bed. The pipes clogged and the creek overflowed the small bridge. There were also a few small rock slides and mud slides along some of the highways. Highway 26 and Woodhouse Mine Road in West Point had a mud slide, but this did not close the road. The road is open however. There was also a small rock slide on Mountain Ranch Road at Rocky Road. |
| March 2016 | Debris Flow | Mokelumne Hill | $5,000 | Caltrans reported flooding and debris on Highway 26 between Mokelumne Hill and Glencoe, within the Butte Fire burn area. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Mokelumne Hill | - | Mud and rocks on the road between Highway 49 and Highway 26 near Mokelumne Hill. Reported by the California Highway Patrol. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Bar | 1.1 miles | 29 | |
| Happy Valley | 1.2 miles | 29 | |
| Jesus Maria | 3.3 miles | 29 | |
| Paloma | 4.1 miles | 29 | |
| Rich Gulch | 4.5 miles | 29 | |
| Alabama Hill | 7.1 miles | 30 | |
| Toyon | 7.3 miles | 30 | |
| San Andreas | 7.3 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 Mokelumne Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2403139 | 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 228901. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.











