Basic, Nevada

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gabbs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89409. It lies near Tungsten Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Gabbs quadrangle.

Basic within Nye County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1907 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000
1908 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1948 USGS Paradise Peak quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Paradise Peak quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Tonopah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Ione Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Gabbs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

5 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Basic between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 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
Natural	4
Firearms and explosives use	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
3 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	GABBS
12 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Carson City District Office	MCGERY
16 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	CRAIG SPRINGS
27 June 1992	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	not named
22 June 2016	Firearms and explosives use	191 acres	Carson City District Office	BIG CHIEF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Basic: 18 prospects, 16 past producers, 9 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Tungsten, Magnesite. 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
Blue Gem Turquoise Mine	Gemstone	Past Producer
Chestnut Mine	Silver, Iron	Occurrence
Copper Blossom Group	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Cottonwood Canyon Prospect	Lead, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Downeyville	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Downeyville Mine	Lead, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Galena, Marmatite, Pyrrhotite, Wulfenite
Lookout Claim	Lead, Silver	Occurrence	1878
Phelps-Stokes	Fluorine-Fluorite, Iron	Past Producer	1902, 1949
Pit #Ny 31-1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sierra Magnesite Mine	Magnesite, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	Magnesite, Scheelite, Sphalerite

Every working recorded in Nye 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
Brucite	0.6 miles	16
Gabbs	1.2 miles	16
Downeyville (historical)	2.7 miles	16
Green Springs (historical)	4.5 miles	16
Lodi	8.5 miles	16
Lodi Tanks	8.7 miles	16
Atwood (historical)	8.9 miles	13
Goldyke	9.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 846999. 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.