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Barclay, Nevada

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Caliente census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89008. It lies near Mathews Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Islen quadrangle. It stands 5,354 feet above sea level.

Barclay within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 14 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

102 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of Barclay between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,004 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural84
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 1996Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeSTNP41
24 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEly District OfficeBEAVERDAM3
23 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreEly District OfficeBEAVERDAM1
20 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeBARK
19 September 1994Naturalunder an acreSouthern Nevada District OfficeCLAY
9 August 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreEly District OfficeBIRTHDAY
8 August 2009Naturalunder an acreEly District OfficeLINX ASSIST THREE
8 August 2001Natural10 acresEly District OfficeISLEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Barclay: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Perlite. 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 Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Unnamed Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Unnamed Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence1945, 1981

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barclay in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. 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
December 2010Flash FloodBarclay-Two to three feet of water from Clover Creek covered a road.

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
Joseco1.4 miles14
Crossroads3.6 miles14
Islen3.9 miles14
Acoma4.8 miles14
Brown9.0 miles14
Eccles11.9 miles14
Crestline12.3 miles14
Horseshoe Bend13.4 miles14

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 BarclayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14705052The 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 858313. 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.