Madera Peak (10,509 ft.)

Named by BGN in 1926

Madera Peak (6,637 ft.)

Also Creek, Lakes

"In 1876 the California Lumber Company built a 52-mile flume from the mountains above present-day Oakhurst to a sawmill in the San Joaquin Valley. The town that grew up around the mill was named Madera, the Spanish word for wood, or lumber. (Johnson, Whistles, 1, 87.) In 1893 the part of Fresno County north and west of the San Joaquin River was organized as a new county and named after the town. (Coy, 157.)

What is now 'Madera Peak' was at first named 'Black Mt.,' since it appears that way on the Hoffmann and Gardiner map of 1863-67. The Wheeler Survey revised that to 'Black Peak' (atlas sheet 56D, 1878-79). That name and 'Black Peak Fork' (for what is now 'Madera Creek') were on the first seven editions of the Mt. Lyell 30' map, 1901-29. Both features were given the 'Madera' name by a BGN decision in 1926; they appeared on the eighth edition of the 30-minute map, 1944. The lakes were first named on the 15-minute map, 1953."
- Peter Browning, Place Names of the Sierra Nevada

Other peaks named by BGN:
  • Angora Mountain (S)
  • Birch Mountain
  • Bunnell Point
  • Mt. Cedric Wright
  • Cockscomb (S)
  • Gendarme Peak
  • Mt. Gilbert
  • Jakes Peak
  • Mt. Jenkins
  • Lawson Peak
  • Polemonium Peak
  • Mt. Prater
  • Red Top Mountain
  • Mt. Solomons
  • South Butte
  • Temple Crag
  • Tiltill Mountain
  • Tresidder Peak
  • Trojan Peak
  • Mt. Versteeg
  • Virginia Peak
  • Mt. Warlow
  • Wheeler Peak (S)
  • Mt. Wynne
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