Ballous Addition, 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 3 records

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

• Elko County Courthouselisted 1992 · 0.0 miles away
• US Post Office-Elko Mainlisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
• Ruby Valley Pony Express Stationlisted 1975 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1955 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Elko West quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
• 1962 USGS Elko West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Elko quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Elko quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Ballous Addition between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,779 acres in total. 26 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:

• Elko
• Coin
• Anderson (historical)
• Hogan
• Hunter
• Sage

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Ballous Addition: 8 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Zeolites. 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 Elko County

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

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 852207. 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.