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Alamo, Nevada

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Alamo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89001. The Survey maps it on the Alamo quadrangle. 785 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,449 feet above sea level.

Alamo within Lincoln County

Population over time

2 figures

Alamo fell from 1,080 to 785 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,080
2020785-295 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

6 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Alamo between 2004 and 2020, burning about 10,113 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 August 2006Natural10,077 acresEly District OfficeHIGBY
11 August 2004Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeRADIO
29 July 2005Natural35 acresEly District OfficePMOUNTAIN
30 June 2017Fireworksunder an acreEly District OfficeBOX
2 June 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeNAT OUT ONE
21 March 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEly District OfficeALAMO DUMP

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Alamo: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Hot Spring 1GeothermalProducer
Unnamed Pumice MinePumicePast Producer1940

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

8 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alamo in 8 storm reports between 2005 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodAlamo$100,000Major flash flooding along a section of Highway 93 locally known as The Narrows closed the highway from Interstate 15 to Caliente for a day and a half so several feet of dirt could be cleared from the highway.
September 2022Flash FloodAlamo$10,000There were multiple reports of flooding in Alamo.
October 2015Flash FloodAlamo$2,000Highway 93 was flooded in several spots between Lincoln County mile markers 38 and 50.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAlamo$1,000One tree also blew down.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAlamo-Thunderstorm winds gusted to 62 mph at Tikaboo Peak.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindAlamo-This gust was measured at Tikaboo Peak.
August 2005Flash FloodAlamo-U.S. Highway 93 washed out.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindAlamo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ash Springs6.8 miles12
Crystal Springs12.1 miles10
Hiko16.3 miles10
Logan (historical)20.8 miles9
Delamar21.9 miles16
Helene22.1 miles16
Ferguson (historical)22.2 miles16
Groom (historical)28.5 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AlamoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2066890The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 845339. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.