The name bučumet is derived from Turkish bućumiš, which means thick, impassable forest.

[2] During the Toplica-Jablanica Operation (Топличко-јабланичка операција 1944, German: Kehraus) in 1944, the Serbian Volunteer Corps and a German regimental group Dizner (Дизнер) were mobilized in the Statovac (Upper and Lower) - Bučumet (Upper and Lower) line, together with other Axis forces, surrounded the Yugoslav Partisans which were situated in the Vidojevica mountain and Rgač mountain.

[3] The rural settlement of Gornji Bučumet is of the "broken type" (Села разбијеног типа), with scattered residential structure.

[4] There is a nearby gold mine, in Lece, located some kilometres west, where many inhabitants have worked in the past.

There were 119 adults, and the average life span was 47,3 years (44,7 in males, and 50,3 in females).