Aurora, Nevada

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Auroralisted 1974 · 0.1 miles away

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

• Main Street, General View, Aurorafederal building survey, 1 photograph

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.

• 1909 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
• 1911 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1915 USGS Hawthorne quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1962 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Walker Lake quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1985 USGS Excelsior Mts quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1989 USGS Aurora quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Aurora (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 14,723 acres in total. 10 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Del Monte
• Esmeralda (historical)
• Fletcher
• Marietta

Every fire recorded in Mineral County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Aurora (historical): 25 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 3 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mineral County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 858760. 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.