[3] Buck Mountain's official coordinates are in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Nuremberg.

[4] Buck Mountain is on the border of the Beaver Valley, some distance north of the community of Shumans.

[9] A prominent hotel owned by Adam Michael historically operated at the base of Buck Mountain for a long period of time.

The Reading Railroad historically had a tunnel that passed through a spur of Buck Mountain.

Historically, it was done by the Buck Mountain Coal Company, but later, the mining was instead done by Coxe Brothers & Co.

[10] Buck Mountain was added to the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979.

However, the Columbia County Natural Areas Inventory states that surveys of the mountain have not been done.