The Sutter Buttes are known as “The Smallest Mountain Range in the World. They are the remnants of an old volcano. A State Park was recently established in the middle of the Buttes but there is, currently, no State public access.
The Quadrangle boundaries are:
N 39º 07’ 30” and N 39º 15’ 00”
W 121º 45’ 00” and W 121º 52’ 30”
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has many missions. At one time, a major mission of the USGS was the supplying of topographic maps of the United States on several scales. Our cache series is based on the 7.5-minute quadrangle series.
The term quadrangle is used, instead of quadrilateral or rectangle, because the sides of these blocks are curved. The USGS divided the United States into quadrangles that are 7.5 minutes by 7.5 minutes. Since a degree is divided into 60 minutes, a quadrangle one degree by one degree contains 64 of these quadrangles.