Amos, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1882 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winnemucca census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89445. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Andorno Ranch quadrangle. It stands 4,344 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Amos within Humboldt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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.

1882 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:250000
1893 USGS Paradise quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
1955 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Awakening Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS McDermitt quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Andorno Ranch quadrangle1:24000
1985 USGS Osgood Mts quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

17 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Amos (historical) between 1995 and 2016, burning about 4,772 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MEMORIAL#3
9 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	MEMORIAL 1
17 August 2016	Natural	3.0 acres	Winnemucca District Office	RIDGE
13 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,249 acres	Winnemucca District Office	ANDORNO
10 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1,724 acres	Winnemucca District Office	BUFFALO
6 July 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.3 acres	Winnemucca District Office	GOOSE
29 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	95B
28 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Winnemucca District Office	PORCUPINE

Every fire recorded in Humboldt County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Amos (historical): 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Antimony, Molybdenum, Iron, Gold, Molybdenum, Antimony. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Amos	Molybdenum, Antimony	Occurrence
Amos Mill Site	Gold	Past Producer
Amos Stibnite Occurrence	Antimony, Molybdenum, Iron	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Pyrite, Stibnite

Every working recorded in Humboldt 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Daveytown	8.2 miles	16
Paradise Hill	9.9 miles	16
Awakening	11.0 miles	16
Orovada	12.5 miles	16
Willow Point (historical)	14.1 miles	16
Rebel Creek (historical)	15.1 miles	16
Paradise Valley	16.2 miles	16
Platora	19.1 miles	16

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 Amos (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888710	The 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 858700. 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.