Beatty, Nevada
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Beatty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89003. It lies near Oasis Valley. The Survey maps it on the Beatty quadrangle. 880 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,307 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBeatty fell from 1,010 to 880 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,010 | |
| 2020 | 880 | -130 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000
- 1910 USGS Furnace Creek quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Bullfrog quadrangle1:125000
- 1948 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Bullfrog quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1956 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Death Valley quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Beatty quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Beatty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
4 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Beatty between 2003 and 2014, burning about 18 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Battle Mountain District Office | RHYOLITE |
| 27 August 2011 | Natural | 4.6 acres | Battle Mountain District Office | BULLFROG |
| 14 May 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.1 acres | Battle Mountain District Office | STAGECOACH |
| 8 February 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Battle Mountain District Office | BVFD AST 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 90 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 90 workings within 5 miles of Beatty: 36 past producers, 24 prospects, 20 occurrences, 9 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balik Claim | Gold, Copper, Sulfur | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Bond Gold Bullfrog Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc | Producer | 1989 | |
| Butler Prospect | Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | Fluorite | |
| Bvc Claims | Gold, Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar | |
| Bvc Claims | Gold, Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Crowell Mine | Silica, Magnesite, Iron, Aluminum, Fluorine-Fluorite, Calcium | Past Producer | 1918, 1919 | |
| Daisy Gold Mine | Gold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, Uranium, Mercury, Clay, Arsenic, Copper, Molybdenum, Thallium | Producer | 1918, 1919, 2001 | |
| Daisy Mine | Fluorine-Fluorite, Mercury, Uranium | Past Producer | 1906 | |
| Grizzly Claim | Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Marvin Walker Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | 1975 |
Storms near this place
6 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatty in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2018: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beatty | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree limbs in and just south of Beatty. |
| August 2012 | Flash Flood | Beatty | $5,000 | North Avenue in Beatty was washed out at the west end, and covered with mud elsewhere. |
| October 2015 | Flash Flood | Beatty | $2,000 | Highway 95 was closed in and near Beatty due to flooding. |
| July 2014 | Flash Flood | Beatty | $2,000 | Highway 95 was flooded and impassable near Beatty. |
| July 2018 | Flash Flood | Beatty | $1,000 | The Amargosa River flooded a road in Oasis Valley. One inch of rain fell in 30 minutes. |
| July 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Beatty | - | Recorded by sensors on the Nevada Test Site. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Center | 2.8 miles | 24 | |
| Fluorine (historical) | 3.6 miles | 25 | |
| Rhyolite | 3.7 miles | 25 | |
| Bullfrog (historical) | 4.1 miles | 25 | |
| Hot Springs | 5.1 miles | 25 | |
| Original (historical) | 6.5 miles | 24 | |
| Gold Bar (historical) | 7.4 miles | 24 | |
| Carrara (historical) | 7.8 miles | 24 |
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 Beatty | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q813330 | 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 845356. 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.













