Aurum, Nevada

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baker census division. It lies near Silver Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Silver Canyon quadrangle. It stands 7,159 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.

Aurum within White Pine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1959 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Ely quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Silver Canyon quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Kern Mountains quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Aurum (historical) between 1996 and 2014, burning about 1 acre 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

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
2 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	WHITEMAN
29 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	RUBY HILL
15 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	WHITEMAN
8 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	NATOUT1
27 July 2009	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	USFS ASST 4- SIEGEL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Aurum (historical): 16 past producers, 5 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Copper, Manganese. 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
Gold Crown Mine	Manganese, Gold, Iron, Silver	Past Producer
Greco-American Group	Lead, Iron, Manganese, Silver	Unknown
Little Flower	Tungsten, Manganese, Lead	Past Producer	Lead, Scheelite
Lucky Deposit	Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Iron, Manganese	Past Producer	Copper
Lucky Deposit Mine	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
May Queen Group	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	1872
May Queen Mines	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Ruby Hill Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead	Past Producer
Siegel Mine	Silver, Manganese, Gold, Lead	Past Producer	1882
Siegel Mines	Manganese, Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in White Pine 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
Siegel (historical)	2.1 miles	11
Centerville (historical)	3.0 miles	11
Ruby Hill (historical)	3.6 miles	11
Stonehouse	5.8 miles	11
Muncy (historical)	7.2 miles	12
Melvin (historical)	11.2 miles	11
Warm Springs	12.0 miles	11
Tippett	16.9 miles	11

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 Aurum (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4822669	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 862317. 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.