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Amador County

Buena Vista

Buena Vista is a census-designated place in . It lies at an elevation of 295 feet. It is located 4 miles south-southeast of , at. The community is in ZIP code 95640 and area code 209. The population was 542 at the 2020 census.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Hamlet with 429 residents
  • Description: census-designated place in Amador County, California
  • Also known as: “Buena Vista, Amador County”, “Buena Vista, Amador County, California”, “Buena Vista, CA”, and “The Corners”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Amador.

Reservoir
is a reservoir located in . It lies at an elevation of 325 feet. The lake's water is impounded by the Jackson Creek Dam, a 193-foot tall earth-and-rock dam, built in 1965 across Jackson Creek. is situated 2 miles northeast of Buena Vista.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Camanche Village and Ione.

Hamlet
is a census-designated place in , . It lies at an elevation of 276 feet, and has a population of 964. is situated 3½ miles southwest of Buena Vista.

Town
Photo: LPS.1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in . As of the 2020 census the population is 5,141, which is a 35.1% decrease from the 2010 census. Once known as "Bedbug" and "Freeze Out," was an important supply center on the main road to the Mother Lode and Southern Mines during the California gold rush. is situated 4 miles north of Buena Vista.

Hamlet
Pardee Dam is a 345-foot-high structure across the which marks the boundary between and , located in the foothills of the approximately 30 miles northeast of . is situated 5 miles southeast of Buena Vista.

Buena Vista

Latitude
38.29436° or 38° 17′ 40″ north
Longitude
-120.91327° or 120° 54′ 48″ west
Population
429
Elevation
295 feet (90 metres)
Open location code
84CX73VP+PM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150966914
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
5331583
Wiki­data ID
Q3473942
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Volapük—“Buena Vista” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Buena Vista”
  • Cebuano: “Buena Vista”
  • Chechen: “Бъюна-Виста (Амадор гуо, Калифорни)”
  • Chechen: “Бъюна-Виста”
  • Chinese: “比尤納維斯塔 (加利福尼亞州阿馬多爾縣)”
  • Chinese: “比尤納維斯塔”
  • Chinese: “比尤那維斯塔”
  • French: “Buena Vista”
  • German: “Buena Vista”
  • Irish: “Buena Vista”
  • Italian: “Buena Vista”
  • Ladin: “Buena Vista”
  • Persian: “بوئنا ویستا، شهرستان آمادور، کالیفرنیا”
  • Persian: “بوئنا ویستا”
  • Polish: “Buena Vista”
  • Spanish: “Buena Vista”
  • Tatar: “Бъюна-Виста (Амадор округы, Калифорния)”
  • Tatar: “Бъюна-Виста”
  • Turkish: “Buena Vista, Amador County, Kaliforniya”
  • Turkish: “Buena Vista”
  • Ukrainian: “Б’юна-Віста”
  • Urdu: “بیونا وسٹا، ایماڈور کاؤنٹی، کیلیفورنیا”
  • Urdu: “بیونا وسٹا”
  • Volapük: “Buena Vista”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Buena Vista Biomass Power and Jackson Creek 1035 Dam.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Buena Vista”. Photo: Vince Migliore, CC BY 3.0.