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Battle Mountain, Nevada

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Battle Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89820. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Battle Mountain quadrangle. 3,705 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,511 feet above sea level.

Battle Mountain within Lander County

On record in Battle Mountain

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 12 of 19 shown

Every surveyed structure in Lander County

Population over time

2 figures

Battle Mountain grew from 3,635 to 3,705 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20103,635
20203,705+70 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

Photographs

8 of 16 photographs shown,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Small Garage, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Small Garage, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Storage Building, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Storage Building, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Office-Warehouse, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Office-Warehouse, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, "Pres. house", Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, "Pres. house", Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Concrete Reservoir, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Concrete Reservoir, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Three Room Residence, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Three Room Residence, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Residence, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Residence, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Large Garage, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Copper Canyon Camp of the International Smelting & Refining Company, Large Garage, Copper Canyon, Battle Mountain, Lander County, NV
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Lander County

Fires near this place

44 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Battle Mountain between 1996 and 2019, burning about 793 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural6
Fireworks5
Debris and open burning3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Firearms and explosives use1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
22 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeBASTIAN
21 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBattle Mountain District Office236
11 September 2016Fireworksunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeCOPPER BASIN
11 September 2016Fireworksunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeCOPPER BASIN 4
11 September 2016Fireworksunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeCOPPER BASIN 3
11 September 2016Fireworksunder an acreBattle Mountain District OfficeCOPPER BASIN 2
4 August 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution22 acresElko District OfficeTAYLOR
4 August 1999Natural288 acresBattle Mountain District OfficeTRACEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lander County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Battle Mountain: 9 past producers, 5 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold, Silver, Gold. 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
Dresser MillBarium-BariteProducer
Greystone Mine and Grinding PlantBarium-BaritePlant
HomesteadGold, SilverPast Producer
Homestead PlacerGoldPast Producer
ImperialSilverPast Producer
J H Voorhees Oil WellsUraniumUnknown
SuprizeCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Surprise MineGold, Silver, CopperProducer1937, 1938
Unnamed Manganese OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed Manganese Prospect #2ManganeseOccurrencePsilomelane

Every working recorded in Lander County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Battle Mountain in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 1997HailBattle Mountain-Golf ball size hail was reported by the Nevada Highway Patrol 5 miles south of Battle Mountain during a severe thunderstorm.
September 1994Thunderstorm WindBattle Mountain-A severe thunderstorm produced a 70 mph gust at the observer station near the airport.

Every storm recorded in Lander 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
Rennox4.8 miles12
Jenkins4.9 miles11
North Battle Mountain5.2 miles12
Piute5.2 miles24
Rosny5.5 miles11
Copper Basin6.5 miles24
Old Battle Mountain (historical)6.8 miles24
Buckingham Camp7.6 miles24

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 Battle MountainAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q745972The 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 838652. 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.