City map

Places

• City Hall

  14203 Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Official offices of the City of Amador, in the old firehouse on Main Street.

• Old Schoolhouse

  14531 East School Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Historic schoolhouse on East School Street. The front dates from 1857 or 1864, and the back wing from 1878. It is the community hall.

Historic sites

Buildings and works from the city’s walking tour. The old firehouse is City Hall, already listed under Places. The cemetery, the Imperial Hotel, and the mines are listed under Historical markers.

• Amador Hotel

  14196 Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  The center of the building dates from about 1855 and escaped the fire of 1878. It is the oldest structure in town. A hall added in 1872 was used as a town hall, and the building stayed a hotel into the 1940s.

• Amador Whitney Museum

  14170 Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  The stone Fleehart Building, from the 1860s or earlier, was a store kept by mine owner and Wells Fargo agent William Fleehart. It was the only store to survive the fire of 1878. The city now uses it as the Amador Whitney Museum.

• Bunker Hill Powder House

  Bunker Hill Mine, Bunker Hill Road, Amador City, CA 95601

  Stone magazine at the Bunker Hill Mine, in the hills northwest of town, where the mine stored its explosives. The roof is gone and the iron door is still in place. A local effort to preserve it was reported in 2013, and a restoration fund was opened in 2026.

• Chichizola Store

  Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  The west half was finished in November 1877, and the other half within the decade. The Chichizola family kept a general store so full that goods hung from the rafters. The post office is in the center of the building.

• Keystone Mine Office

  14125 Highway 49, Amador City, CA 95601

  The two-story brick office and assay room of the Keystone Consolidated Mining Company, built in 1881 across from the mine headframe. Gold was assayed, weighed, and shipped from here. It later operated as the Mine House Inn.

• Kling Building

  Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  This brick building replaced George Kling’s wood-frame saloon after the fire of June 1878. The south side was his saloon. The north side was a dry goods store, and later a justice of the peace, a cobbler, and an assay office.

• Knights of Pythias Hall

  Southeast corner of West School Street and Cross Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Amador Lodge No. 46 was organized in December 1877 and built its wood-frame hall on this corner in 1881. The hall later served as City Hall. It is a private residence.

• Peyton Building

  14195 Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  After the 1878 fire, William Peyton built this brick building for a saloon. In 1879 he rented it to J. R. Dunlap for a drug store and post office. It was later a general store that sold gasoline.

• Torres Hall

  Amador City, CA 95601

  Built about 1869. The lower level kept horses and buggies and was used for bocce. The upper floor burned in 1879 and was rebuilt in 1889 as a store, saloon, and Italian restaurant, with a dance floor above.

• Weil Building

  Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Rebuilt in brick after the 1878 fire destroyed Weil’s wooden warehouse. He kept a general store here. The Keystone Supply Company later occupied the building.

Historical markers

Plaques in Amador City and just outside the city limit. The numbered mine stops are on the Amador County Gold Mine Trail, placed in 2004 for the county sesquicentennial. Coordinates are the ones recorded for each plaque by the Historical Marker Database.

• Amador City Cemetery

  Church Street, inside the cemetery gate, Amador City, CA 95601

  City plaque, “Est. 1851.” The first burial was in 1851 and the last recorded burial was in 1892. Many graves were never marked, or were marked in wood that was later lost.

• Bunker Hill Mine

  Bunker Hill Road and Fremont Mine Road, Amador City, CA 95601

  Gold Mine Trail stop 15, placed in 2004. First worked in 1853 as the Rancheria Mine, later the Bunker Hill Consolidated Mine, until 1922. The incline shaft reached 3,440 feet.

• Imperial Hotel

  14202 Main Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Native Sons of the Golden West plaque, dedicated in 1978. The two-story brick building was finished in 1879 as a store, then used as a hotel and boarding house until 1927.

• Keystone Mine

  Main Street, south of Water Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Gold Mine Trail stop 13, placed in 2004 at the mine ruins. Founded in 1851 and worked, with the South Spring Hill Mine, until 1942. The east shaft continued until 1952 and reached 2,680 feet.

• Original Amador Mine

  East School Street and Amador Creek Street, Amador City, CA 95601

  Gold Mine Trail stop 14, placed in 2004. Opened in 1852 and worked until 1918, then again from 1935 to 1937. The shaft reached 1,238 feet.

• South Spring Hill Mine

  String Bean Alley, east of Old Highway 49, Amador City, CA 95601

  Gold Mine Trail stop 12, placed in 2004. Founded in 1851 and worked until 1893. The Keystone Company bought it in 1920 and closed it in 1942.

• Treasure Mine

  15165 Bunker Hill Road, Amador City, CA 95601

  Gold Mine Trail stop 16, placed in 2004. Also called the Hazard Mine. Opened before 1867, connected underground to the Bunker Hill Mine, and closed in 1922. The incline shaft reached 3,030 feet.

Sources

• Zoning

  City of Amador working map Districts digitized from the city zoning drawing. R-1, R-2, C-2, A-T, and SP are districts in Title 17. Public and public sector are on this drawing and are not districts in the ordinance. This is not the paper zoning map adopted with Ordinance 55.

• City limit

  U.S. Census Bureau The incorporated boundary of Amador City.

• Parcels

  Amador County GIS, through May 2021 Lot lines and assessor parcel numbers. The county remains the source. Owner names are not shown.

• Flood

  FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer FEMA maps the area inside the city limit as Zone X, an area of minimal flood hazard. This is FEMA’s map, not a city flood study.